2015学年第二学期天河区“五校”联考 九年级英语 一、语法选择(共15小题,每小题1分,满分15分) I know a little girl called Lucy. I used to watch her ____1____ basketball every day from my kitchen window. One day I asked her why she practiced so ____2____. She said: “I would like to go to college. The only way is ____3____ a scholarship. I like basketball and I want to be the ____4____ player in the college. And my dad told me if there is a will, there is a way.” She never changed ____5____ mind to be a basketball player. I watched her through those junior high years and into senior high school. One day before she graduated ____6____ high school, I saw her sitting on the grass ____7____. I asked her what was wrong. Here was the story. Her coach said she was ____8____ a short girl that she couldn’t be a good basketball player and she should stop ____9____ about going to college. She was heartbroken and ____10____ also made me feel sad. However, after a while, she smiled and ____11____ me her father thought 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 ____12____ your dream.” The next year, she and her team joined in a big game. She ____13____ by a coach of a famous college team and was offered a scholarship to the ____14____ basketball team of their college. She was about to get t