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I used to watch her from my kitchen window. She seemed so small as she pushed her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during break.

I remember the first day I saw her playing basketball. I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her but no one could. I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone．

One day I asked her why she practiced so much. Without a moment of hesitation（犹豫）she said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can go is to get a scholarship（奖学金）. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the best. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count．”

I watched her through those junior high years and into high school. Every week, she led her school team to victory.

One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head in her arms. I walked across the street and sat down in the cool grass beside her. Quietly I asked what was wrong. “Oh, nothing,” came a soft reply, “I am just too short.” The coach told her that at "5’5’’ she would probably never get to play for a top ranked, team-much less offered a scholarship — so she should stop dreaming about college.

She was heartbroken and I sensed（感觉到）her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just did not understand the power of a dream. He told her that if she truly wanted a scholarship, and that nothing could stop her except one thing — her own attitude．He told her again , “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”

The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was offered a scholarship She was going to get the college education that she had dreamed of．

1.The girl practiced playing basketball so much because __________.

A. She wanted to play basketball better than boys

B. playing basketball can increase her height

C. she wanted to get the college education

D. she had the gift for playing basketball

2.The girl was heartbroken because __________.

A. her father did wrong to her

B. she was considered too short to be a top player

C. The school wouldn’t offer her a scholarship any more

D. her coach’s word stopped her from playing basketball

3.The sentence “if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count” means __________.

A. the facts is not important

B. every one of us should have a dream

C. if you have a dream, it must come true

D. if you try your best, a dream will beat the facts

4.We can learn from the passage that __________.

A. the father always encouraged the girl

B. a top basketball team can offer the player money

C. the girl was much higher than5’5’’ the next year

D. the girl stopped dreaming about college because of the coach

5.The writer mainly wants to tell us that __________.

A. practice makes perfect

B. pride comes before a fall

C. where there is a will, there is a way

D. Rome was not built in one day

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