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阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 Who to Believe? My doctors told me I would never walk again

英语试题 01-12
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阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Who to Believe?
My doctors told me I would never walk again because of the illness. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Wilma Rudolph was born in 1940 into a very large and poor African-American family in Tennessee. When she was four years old, a deadly ____11____ made her left leg useless. She had to wear an iron leg brace(固定器). Her doctors told her she would never ____12____ like a normal person without the brace. ____13____ she was fortunate in having a mother who encouraged her to have faith and ____14____.
At nine years of age, the little girl ____15____ the leg brace and took the step that her doctors had said was___16___. Then she got the incredible idea that she would like to be the world's greatest woman ____17____. Now, what cold she mean --- be a professional sportswoman with a useless leg?
At the age of thirteen, she began to enter races, but she came in last in every race. Everyone begged her to ___18___ it. One day, however, she came in next to last. Then there came a day when she won a race. From then on, she ____19____ every race that she entered.
In 1957, Wilma went to Tennessee State University, where she met a ____20____ named Ed Temple. He trained her so well that in 1960 she went to the Olympic Games in Rome. There she ____21____ a German girl named Jutta Heine, the greatest woman runner of the day. Wilma had just won two Olympic gold medals both in the 100-metre sprint(冲刺)and the 200-metre sprint. Then came the 400-metre ____22____. It would be Wilma against Jutta. When the third runner handed the baton(接力棒)to Wilma, she was so excited that she ____23____ it, and Wilma saw Jutta taking off down the track. It was impossible that anybody could catch this girl. But Wilma did just that! Wilma Rudolph had ____24____ her third Olympic gold medal in the 17th Olympic Games.
That day Wilma made history as she became the first woman to win three gold medals in the same Olympic Games. Later she said. "The success can't be reached without the ____25____. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their ___26___."
Wilma had never ____27____ that she would not walk again and she kept struggling and finally earned the title of the world's ____28____ woman. Her story told us it is our ____29____ that show what we truly are far more than our ____30____.
11. A. fall B. cut C. illness D. accident
12. A. learn B. walk C. dance D. speak
13. A. And B. For C. So D. Yet
14. A. courage B. stage C. intelligence D. collection
15. A. removed B. bought C. applied D. checked
16. A. dependable B. unnecessary C. impossible D. reasonable
17. A. doctor B. runner C. writer D. lawyer
18. A. change B. challenge C. accept D. stop
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