学进去

Time passes quickly. My thirteenth 1． is coming soon. I'm going to have a small party at home on Saturday afternoon. The day 2． yesterday，I invited some friends. Most of them can come，but three of them can't. Jenny is going to visit her aunt in the 3． .She will leave on Friday night and won't come back 4． Sunday afternoon. David has a soccer game next Monday，so he has to 5． for it. That is his favorite sport and he doesn't want to 6． the game. Judy might have to meet her two friends 7． Chengdu. She is going to take them to some 8． places.

Tonight I have to make a shopping list with my mother. Tomorrow we'll go 9． and buy the things we need. I'm looking forward to 10． my friends at the party. I'm sure we'll have a good time.

My name is Li Li. I’m eleven. I’m from China. My mom is a nurse and my father is a doctor. They work in a (an) _________. I have a sister. She is a junior high school student. We look _________ each other and we help each other. We like _________ very much, because (因为) _________ looks like sea (海水). My sister and I are in the same school, _________ we are in different grades. There are _________ students in our class, twenty boys and twenty-two girls. We have four classes in the morning and two classes _________ the afternoon. My English teacher Miss Green is very _________ to us. She often _________ a car to school. We have five English classes a week. Now we can __________ a lot of English words (单词).

A month before my first marathon(马拉松), one of my knees was hurt and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two _______ to train. Yet, I decided to go ahead.

I remember back to my first P. E. class, the teacher asked us to run and then hit a softball. _______ didn’t do either well. “You are not athletic, young man,” he said to me, in front of all the others. That is to say, I was not good at sports.

The idea that I was “not athletic” with a great sense of _______ went with me for many years. Till I started to _______ in my 30s, I realized running was a fight against myself, not about competition or whether or not I was athletic. It was all about the fight against my own body and mind. A test of _______!

The night before my marathon, I dreamed that I couldn’t even find the finish line. I woke up sweating(流汗) all over, but ready to show _______ to myself.

Shortly after crossing the start line, my shoe laces(鞋带) went loose, _______ I had to stop to manage. Not the start I wanted but I would never _______ this chance.   

At mile 3, I passed a sign: “GO FOR IT, RUNNERS!”

By mile 17, I became out of breath and my knee hurt badly. _______ resting, I continued the race. I walked ________ a bit and then ran again.

By mile 21, I was so tired and ________ that I could even eat a horse!

As I was reaching mile 23, I could hear my wife cheering me on at the finish line. “I can do it!” I ________ myself.

I was one of the final runners, but I ________! And I got a medal. In fact, I got the same medal as the one that the man who came in first place had.

Decide to be myself, move forward, shake off shame and ________ others labeled me. I can now call myself a “marathon __________.”