I graduated from a small public school in Michigan. One day，Mr. Ledy，our football coach，asked me to play football. I couldn’t help 36 ：me，play football? I was six feet tall and was not much __37__ a hundred pounds in weight. I thought that they might just need 38 fool to increase the number of the players. However，he was persistent(坚持的) and __39__I joined the football team. That 40 to be one of my best decisions as a kid.
Our worst game __41__ was the one against Crystal Falls. They beat us 56 to 6. Yeah! That was a football not a basketball _42__. We played them again when we were seniors. They __43__ us again but the score was much more _44_，30 to 20.
Coach Ledy would not let that __45__ again. He encouraged us to beat them，to pay them back. And we did so in the last game we played before __46__. I had scored 6 points alone in the game. Coach Ledy praised me. It was a huge _47 for me.
Was I a football hero? Ha! Ha! No，I couldn’t __48__ it without our team. The thing I learned through football was __49__. We won as a team and we __50__ as a team.
I think Mr. Ledy would be __51__ of me if he knew that I had broken the athletic __52__ at the University of Michigan. I’m __53__to him as I would not h
ave today’s honor without him. I’ll __54__life’s final war with pain to win the victory；I’ll seek the lights of glory wholeheartedly and I’ll __55__ working hard so as not to let him down.
| 36. A. shouting | B. screaming | C. laughing | D. applauding |
| 37. A. up | B. over | C. more | D. out |
| 38. A. another | B. other | C. some | D. any |
| 39. A. immediately | B. secretly | C. personally | D. finally |
| 40. A. took out | B. turned out | C. gave off | D. gave out |
| 41. A. never | B. once | C. ever | D. again |
| 42. A. game | B. team | C. story | D. score |
| 43. A. won | B. met | C. beat | D. fought |
| 44. A. accessible | B. comfortable | C. sensitive | D. acceptable |
| 45. A. happen | B. succeed | C. spread | D. develop |
| 46. A. liberation | B. closing | C. graduation | D. school |
| 47. A. honor | B. hope | C. success | D. surprise |
| 48. A. take | B. manage | C. solve | D. explain |
| 49. A. courage | B. devotion | C. teamwork | D. contribution |
| 50. A. united | B. appeared | C. prepared | D. lost |
| 51. A. proud | B. fond | C. full | D. kind |
| 52. A. time | B. record | C. date | D. ability |
| 53. A. pleased | B. grateful | C. hopeful | D. loyal |
| 54. A. fight | B. join | C. desire | D. enjoy |
| 55. A. take on | B. put on | C. rely on | D. keep on |