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Thirteen-year-old Lola Walters has taken America by storm! She is nearly blind, but wowed the
crowds at the American Gymnastics Academy Long Beach Open last month.
Lola suffers from a condition causing her to see double. She cannot see anything until she is just
five feet away. However, she competed with other young gymnasts with perfect vision. The judges
knew nothing of her condition, but they were still amazed by her perfect gymnastics skills.
"The floor isn't any different for me," Lola says. "But the beam(平衡木) is only four inches wide,
so it's hard enough for anyone to walk on, let alone jump on. So when I start to see two beams instead
of just the one, I need to steady(稳固) myself on my feet and really focus."
There is a saying that goes, "One minute on th
e stage is worth ten years off the stage." Even for
normal people, you have to work very hard to achieve success, to say nothing of a blind girl like Lola.
Can you imagine how
much pain she endured(忍受) when she was practicing? It's common for her
to fall down from the beam and her accidents are more serious than other gymnasts. But that does
not stop her from practicing gymnastics.
Now gymnastics has become Lola's passion and she plans to be a gymnastics coach when she's
older.
1. Lola is suffering from ________.
A. seeing double
B. being a coach
C. jumping on beam
D. more common accidents
2. It's clear that ________.
A. Lola was hit by a storm in the US
B. Lola often falls off the beam when practicing
C. Lola is a beautiful blind girl
D. Lola has become a coach
3. The judges were amazed by Lola's skills because ________.
A. they knew she couldn't see well
B. she performed perfectly
C. she was a young coach
D. they had never seen that before
4. We can learn from the reading that ________.
A. blindness is good for gymnastics
B. the judges prefer hard-working to perfect skills
C. Lola has no trouble to perform on the floor
D. normal people can achieve success easily
5. The best title for the reading is ________.
A. Fair Judges
B. Careful Gymnast
C. Nothing Impossible
D. Strange Illness
