I used to watch a little girl playing basketball every day from my kitchen window. One day I asked her why she practiced so much. She said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can go is to get a scholarship. I like basketball and I want to be the best player in college. My dad told me, “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”
She never changed her mind. I watched her through those junior high years and into senior high school. One day before she graduated from high school, I saw her sitting on the grass sadly. I asked her what was wrong. She told me that her coach said she was too short to be a good basketball player, so she should stop dreaming about going to college. She was heartbroken and it made me feel bad too. Then she smiled and told me her father said that the coach was wrong. He did not understand the power of dream. Her father said to her, “If you really want to play for the scholarship of a good college, nothing but you yourself can stop your dream.” He told her again, “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”
The next year, she and her team went to a big game. She was seen by a coach of a famous college team and was offered a scholarship to the women’s basketball team of their college. She was to get the college education that she had dreamed of and worked for all those years.
“If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.” It is true.
1. What is the only way for the girl to go to a good college according to the passage?（No more than 10 words）
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2. Give a definition to the underlined word “count”.（ No more than 5 words）
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3. Why is the girl so sad? （ No more than 20 words）
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4. What is the girl’s father’s purpose by saying “If you really want to play for the scholarship of a good college, nothing but you yourself can stop your dream.”?（No more than 10 words）
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5. What have you learned from the story? （No more than 30 words）
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