The shortest player in the NBA
Spud Webb was born in Texas, the USA, in 1963. He was very small-much smaller than kids at school. However, he had a big dream – he wanted to play in the NBA.
While junior high, Spud the school team, but he was refused to play at first because he was too small. He did not lose heart. When he finally got the chance, he scored 20 points in his first game. From then on, he was the star of the team.
In senior high, Spud often had to sit in the stands his height. He practiced even and got the coach to change his mind. Spud went on to become leader of the team. In his last year of senior high, he was named player of the Year in Texas.
However, no university would invite him to play basketball simply because he was only 170 cm tall. He decided to play at a junior college. There he led his team to the national championship. This brought him to the attention of North Carolina State University. As a result, he succeeded a scholarship.
Although he was a great player at university, the NBA was not in him because all its players were more than 20 cm taller than he was. After he graduated, he in another basketball league. He remained there for about a year the NBA took notice of him. In 1985, he joined the Atlanta Hawks and became the shortest player in the NBA at that time. He had many great achievements, but his proudest moment came in 1986 – he won the Slam Dunk Contest.
Through hard work, Spud Webb proved that size and body type does not matter – you can do almost if you never give up.
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If you meet Walker Smith, a 2-year-old boy from Coral Gables, Florida, the ___ thing he will ask you is what kind of car you drive. Walker has been interested in ___ for more than a year, ever _____ the day his father, a car fan, brought home a single matchbox car for him. “He started to ____ cars from his father, and within a week _____ two, he could name many cars on the road,” Walker’s mother Lynley Smith said.
Walker’s father often brings home magazines____ cars. Lynley said, “So Walker and his father would try to find cars _____in the magazines we and our friends drove. So they’d find a Saturn and my husband would say ‘This is the car ______ mommy drives !’ and then they’d look for Saab and say ‘This is daddy’s !’ Before we knew it, he pointed _____our kinds of cars out on the road.”
So now he knows every car you can ___,” said Lynley, “including some super fancy cars that you ____ see on the road,” such as Aston Martins and Lamborghinis. “We’re so ___ to have such a clever baby. Walker can now identify the cars he sees on the road though his ___ isn’t always right “He’s not _____ at ‘r’s, so for example when he sees a Porsche, he calls it a ‘Posh’. And when he sees a Ford, he’ll call it ‘fod’,” said Lynley. When you ask him what he wants to be when he ____, he will say “Of course a car businessman”. This must be his dream job.
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Dear Miss Li,
I’d like to thank you for sending money “Animal Helpers”, an organization set up to help disabled people. You see, you have helped it possible for me to have “Lucky”. My life pleasure because of him now. Let me tell you my story.
Being blind, deaf, unable to walk or use your hands is something that most people cannot imagine. But there are many people who face these challenges, and I am one of them. Because I can’t use my arms or legs well, things like answering the telephone, opening and doors or carrying things have always been difficult for me. Then one day last year, a friend of mine said that she would like to . She said she would talk to “Animal Helpers” to see it would be possible for me to get a trained dog. She also thought a dog might cheer me up. I told her that I love animals and that I’d love to have a dog.
six months of training with a dog at “Animal Helpers”, I was able to 9 himhome. My dog’s name is “Lucky” – a good name for him I feel very lucky to have him. You see, I’m only able to have a “dog-helper” because of your kind donation!
, you might ask? Well, he has been trained to different instructions. For example, I say, “Lucky! Fetch my book,” and he does it at once. He is very clever and understands many English words, even some difficult like “upstairs”.
Lucky is an dog. I’ll send you a photo of him if you like, and I could show you how he helps me too one day. And so I thank you again for supporting “Animal Helpers”. It is very important that this organization does not run out of money. Your donation and the money is well used to help disabled people like me.
Best wishes,
Liz Smith
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Now in some places of our country, many people are cutting down (砍伐) the trees in the forests. They need more to build houses and more farmland to grow crops and so on. The areas of forests are getting . Some scientists say that there no big forests in 20 or 30 years. It is really a(n) thing. ______the forests, we will have sandstorms (沙尘暴) often. The weather will get . The earth will become a big desert (沙漠). A lot of plants and animals will . Crops will not grow anywhere. Life will be for everyone.
So we should do our best our living environment and keep our mountains , the water clean, and the sky blue.
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As people become older, they are more likely to judge (判断) things around them in the wrong way. They start to judge them only through their eyes, rather than their _______.
My granddaughter, Hanna, loves to buy things on sale with her mother. She always tells other people ______ that she has found a lovely shirt on sale. Unlike her, many adults ________the fact that they buy things on sale.
One day, I went shopping with Hanna’s grandfather, Bill, and Hanna. ________ we had parked our car, Bill jumped out to go into the store. Hanna and I waited for him in the car.
“I like that truck,” Hanna said, suddenly. Then I_______ that there was an old truck behind our car, with a lot of clothes on it. Many people were standing ________it. We got out of the car to have a look. However, I found that the clothes were of bad _______; they were not very nice, and they were not even clean.
_________, I asked Hanna, “Dear, why do you like it?”
“I just do,” she answered.
Then I looked at my car. It was also _______, because of the rain from the day before. I wondered what people might think of me because of my dirty car.
We adults often judge other people other things for certain reasons. _______ children don’t need those strange reasons. They just judge using their hearts.
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