阅读下面短文、从短文后所给的A 、B 、C 、D 四个选项中选出能填入相应 空白处的最佳选项A group of boys gathered around a tree. "What a tall tree!"they said to each other. "It would be exciting to climb to the 1 !"To see who could climb to the top of the tree first, the group of boys then decided to play a 2 . Their mothers were sitting not far away, looking at their children as they played.
One of the climbers was an 8-year-old boy named David. He was the shortest child in the group. Nobody thought he would 3 the competition.
Then the game started. All of the boys 4 their best to climb as high as they could. Their faces lit up(露出喜色)with excitement as they began to climb. They all made it halfway up the tree before David did, 5 he reached the top of the tree fastest in the end.
His mother was 6 to see this. She asked him, "David, how did you manage(成功)to reach the top of the tree so 7 ?"
"It was easy, "David said. "The other children kept looking 8 as they climbed. When they realized how high they were, they got 9 and were afraid of falling down. I, however, looked only up. When I saw how close I was, I kept going higher and higher until I reached the top. "
It is true in life that if we just 10 going forward without looking back, we can reach our goals more easily.
