My aunt bought me a bicycle on my ninth birthday. She told me to learn to ride by ___36___. But I really didn’t know___37___to ride a bike. What should I do? First, I watched the other people ride. Then I pushed out the bicycle from my house. I was ___38___ I'd fall down and hurt my knees. But I knew I had to get on it sooner or later. So I___39___ to get on just like what the other people did. But I fell off twenty___40___later. Just at that time, my aunt came out from the ___41___. She told me to practice again and again. So I got on the bike a second time, and fell off a second time. But I never gave up. I practiced a third time, a fourth time …. I could be on it ___43___every time I tried again then before, 5 minutes, ten minutes, half an hour… until I could.
Like anything in life that you want to learn how to do or to be good at, you have to practice to ___44___it happen. Diligent practice is the key to success___45___you really want to learn to do a thing. More practice helps you to improve on the skills that you learn and ingrains （使根深蒂固）them in you until you can do it.
【小題1】
| A．herself | B．yourself | C．myself | D．himself |
| 【小題2】 | | A．how | B．what | C．where | D．when |
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| 【小題3】 | | A．happy | B．surprised | C．interested | D．afraid |
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【小題4】
| 【小題5】 | | A．seconds | B．minutes | C．hours | D．days |
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【小題6】
| A．school | B．house | C．farm | D．village |
| 【小題7】 | | A．fifth | B．fourth | C．third | D．second |
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【小題8】
| A．shorter | B．longer | C． safer | D．dangerous |
| 【小題9】 | | A．practice | B．enjoy | C． make | D．set |
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【小題10】
