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    “Wow, can you believe our winter vacation  (start)?”

    “I know, Jim. You and  (you) sister will have two  (week) of winter fun,” said Dad.

    “I remember fun you and Susan had last year,” said Mom as she gave the carrots to Jim.

      Susan (start) to laugh. “Hey, Jim. Do you remember that Dad and Mom tried
  (ride) down the steepest (最陡的) hill together on the toboggan (平底雪橇)?”

   “Of course I remember!” said Jim. “I laughed  hard that I fell down.”

    “But not as  (hard) as I did,” said Dad. “It's good thing that I was wearing my ski suit.”   

   “Let's have a different kind of fun this vacation,” said Mom  (happy).    

A

    Josh stepped to the edge (边缘) of the platform. This was the third time he had come up here, and for the third time he turned around and walked back to the ladder, afraid to make the dive from  the high platform.

  “I had made good dives at lower levels,” he thought. “Mr Barry, the teacher, had even said that if I didn't want to dive from that height, I didn't have to.”

    Standing on the ground, Josh stared (盯着) up at that high dive platform. Suddenly, Mr Barry began walking toward him. “How are you doing, Josh?” he asked.

  “I'm all right, Mr Barry. I just got a little frightened up there,” Josh said.

  “Don't worry about it, Josh. You know, when I was young, I got scared up there too,” Mr Barry said.

  “So how did you take the courage to dive from up there, Mr Barry?” Josh asked.

  “I decided that I had to stop thinking about it. I just climbed up the ladder, ran to the end, closed my eyes and jumped off the board.”

    Josh took a deep breath, turned around and started walking back to the ladder that led to the high dive platform. He knew it was something he would have to do. Even if it wasn't today, he would do it someday.

 B

    A marathon is an endurance (忍耐力) race which covers 26 miles, 385 yards (42.2 km). It is a race for the strong. To run this race, one must have great endurance.

    The history of this tiring race dates back to a war. The war was between the Persian Empire and the Greeks. It was in the year 490 BC. The war took place on a plain (平原) called Marathon.

    The Greeks won. After the war, a man was chosen to announce that the Persians had been defeated (打败) in the battle. The man ran from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens. He ran at top speed without stopping to rest. When he reached Athens, he told the news and died.

    In 1896, the marathon race was included in the first modern Olympic Games in Athens. The race was to remember the runner. It was 24.85 miles (40 km), the distance that the man had been asked to run to give his news.

    All marathons today are a little longer than the one in the first modern Olympic Games. Distance was added at the 1908 O1ympid Games in London, The distance was changed to 26.22 miles to cover the ground from Windsor Castle to White City stadium, with the 2.2 miles added on so the race could finish in front of the Royal Box.

你们学校为了提高大家的健身意识将选行一次写作比赛。作文的题目是 “My favorite sport”, 请按照下列提示写一篇不少于80词的文章。

提示: ① What is your favorite sport?

         ②How often do you play it?

         ③Who do you usually play with?

         ④What kind of memory do you have about playing this sport?