Ⅰ. 完形填空
Maybe it's my love of baseball that connects my aunt Helen and me. She has always kept me 1
A
in her experiences of playing baseball back in the 1940s. I would listen to these 2
C
over and over. She used to say, "Go after what you want. Don't be ashamed of failing. Real embarrassment comes from 3
D
trying."
In 1943, she was one of the young women who 4
B
for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball league. She 5
C
what it would be like to win a championship for her hometown. She imagined a long narrow pointed flag 6
D
at the baseball field, and on it the name Helen would be there for all to 7
B
.
About a week later, Aunt Helen received a(n) 8
A
from the leaders of the girl's baseball league in Chicago. Aunt Helen 9
B
it open and learned that she had been invited to the league's main tryouts.
But as the days went by, Aunt Helen became 10
C
about travelling to Chicago alone. What if she went all that way and 11
D
? When the day of the tryouts 12
B
, she was too afraid to go.
Aunt Helen has spent the rest of her life wondering what would have happened 13
A
she had gone to those tryouts. Because of this, she never missed another 14
C
in her life. She learned that every dream is worth 15
A
, even if you catch only a few of them.
