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My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk, but would never run very well. The first three years of his life was __1__in hospital. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he has a problem when you saw him __2__ . Children in our neighborhood always ran around __3 __their play, and Joey would jump and ran and play,__ 4__ . We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be__ 5__ to run like the other children. So he didn’t know. In__ 6__ grade he decided to join the school running team. Every day he trained. He ran more than any of the others, __7__ only the top seven runners would be chosen to run for the__ 8__ . We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know. He ran four to five mile every day - even when he had a fever. I was ___9 __, so I went to __10 __him after school. I found him running ___11__ . I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. He has two more miles to go. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept __12__ . Two weeks later, the names of the team __13__ were caked. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had__ 14__ the team. He was in seventh grade - the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he couldn’t do it … so he didn’t know. He just __15 __it. 1. A. spent B. taken C. cost D. paid 2. A. talk B. sit C. study D. walk 3. A. after B. before C. during D. till 4. A. either B. too C. though D. yet 5. A. able B. sorry C. glad D. afraid 6. A. sixth B. seventh C. eighth D. ninth 7. A. so B. if C. then D. because 8. A. neighborhood B. family C. school D. grade 9. A. excited B. tired C. pleased D. worried 10. A. think about B. hear from C. agree with D. look for 11. A. alone B. away C. almost D. already 12. A. riding B. walking C. playing D. running 13. A. jumpers B. runners C. doctors D. teachers 14. A. got B. kept C. made D. foun