I often watched a little girl playing basketball on the playground near my house. She would 1 shooting over and over again， sometimes until dark. One day I asked her 2 she practiced so hard. She said，"I like basketball. I want to play for the top basketball team. I want to be the 3. My daddy told me if the dream is big enough，the facts don't count(重要). "

    I watched her 4 those high school years. One day， I saw her sitting on the grass，head in her arms. I walked to her and asked what was wrong. "Oh，nothing， " she said. "I am just not that tall. " The coach(教练)told her that she was too 5 to play for a top team. She was very 6 . I asked her if she had talked to her 7 about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were 8 .They just did not understand the power(力量)of a 9 .He told her that nothing could 10 her but one thing-her own attitude(态度)-if she really wanted to play for a good basketball team. He told her again，"If the dream is big enough， the facts don't count. " The next year， she was asked to join the NCAA(全美大学生体育协会)women's basketball team.

    Accept life as it is. I learned how to do it from my father. 1 , he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was 2 and ill.

    My father was 3 a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness 4 all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day.

Even talking is 5 . One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started 6 about life, and I told them about one of my 7 . I said that we must very often give things up 8 we grow — our youth, our beauty, our friends — but it always 9 that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father 10 up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up 11 ! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I couldn't think of anything to say. 12 , he answered his own question: “I 13 the love of my family,” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.

    I was also 14 by his words. After that, when I began to feel angry at someone, I 15 remember his words and become 16 . If he could 17 his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be 18 to give up my small anger. In this 19 , I learned the power of acceptance from my father.

    Sometimes I 20 what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am ashamed(惭愧的) for this one word.

    Near the village, there is an old famous temple. Some people want to build a new house where the temple now stands, because they can find no other area to build them, while others disagree with them. They meet to decide how to solve the problem. Here are their opinions about it.

The expert wants to protect the temple and believes that there are some interesting things buried in the ground. If it is destroyed or moved, people may never learn about how people lived in the past.

The businessman thinks that the houses should be built. History is important, but we must think about the future. The village needs development and building new houses will offer jobs to hundreds of people.

Villager A says, "We should build the new houses because we need houses to live in."

Villager B says, "We should protect the temple because it can attract many tourists to come for a visit. If the temple is destroyed or moved, we will lose a lot of business."

The village leader thinks that he has a duty to make life better for the villagers. They need jobs and new houses. He also thinks the cultural site (遗迹) is important and they should be careful with it as well.

1.学习计划;

2.运动计划;

3.……计划;

4.你对暑假的期望。

注意：

1. 词数在70词左右;

2.可适当增加细节， 以使行文连贯；

3.文中不能出现真实姓名及学校名称；

4.短文开头已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇: homework (n. 家庭作业); do sports (做运动); meaningful (adj. 有意义的)

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