Go for the Gold
Diana Golden was 12 years old when she found she had bone cancer. Doctors recommended       her right leg above the knee.
     Diana heard the news, she asked the first question that came into her mind, “Will I still be able to      ?”
“When the doctors said yes,” she later said, “I thought it wouldn’t be too      .”
That was Diana’s       to life. Losing a leg would cause most children to lose      , but Diana refused to think about the       side. “Losing a leg?” she’d say. “It’s nothing. A body part.”
Most of all, Diana didn’t want to let cancer stop her from doing what she loved—skiing. She had been on ski since five. After the operation, Diana worked hard to get back to the      . “I always skied, and I intended to keep on skiing. There was never any question in my mind about that,” she      . Seven months after losing her leg, Diana met her      . She was back out on the slopes (斜坡).
Skiing wasn’t quite the same with just one leg, but Diana made the best of it. She        to go faster on one leg than most people could go on two. When she was just 17, she became a member of the U.S. Disabled Ski Team.
After high school, Diana went on to Dartmouth College. There she saw how top two-legged skiers trained.       not to be left behind, Diana began training with the Dartmouth team. When they ran up and down the steps of the football stadium, she went up and down the steps too—by      . “I had to      ,” she later explained. “I was an athlete. I had one leg, which meant I had to do it      .”
Her constant efforts finally paid off. In 1987, Diana placed 10th in a race       some of the best nondisabled skiers in the country. And in 1988, the magazine Ski Racing selected her “Skier of the Year”, breaking the       of electing able-bodied World Cup athletes.
As a result of her       and determination, Diana has changed the way the world looks at
     athletes. People have begun to see them as strong and competent. “Everyone has some kind of ‘disability’,” Diana says, “It’s what we do with our abilities that      .”

A．pulling B．losing C．removing D．breaking

A．Until B．When C．Once D．Since

A．run B．walk C．train D．ski

A．bad B．strange C．difficult D．dangerous

A．answer B．attitude C．attention D．challenge

A．memory B．interest C．confidence D．patience

A．serious B．practical C．positive D．negative

A．mountain B．field C．track D．court

A．responded B．commented C．declared D．introduced

A．goal B．requirement C．approval D．standard

A．offered B．agreed C．expected D．learned

A．Determined B．Ashamed C．Anxious D．Cautious

A．climbing B．running C．jumping D．walking

A．adapt B．perform C．survive D．transform

A．properly B．immediately C．differently D．deliberately

A．between B．against C．to D．for

A．reality B．system C．promise D．tradition

A．wisdom B．experience C．behavior D．courage

A．top B．disabled C．young D．international

A．pushes B．matters C．helps D．contributes