Don’tTaketheFunOutofYouthSports   WhenIjoinedaprivatefo...

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Don’t Take the Fun Out of Youth Sports

    When I joined a private football league a few years ago, the sport meant everything to me. My coach said that I had lots of potential, and I became captain of my   1  . That was before all the fun was taken out of   2  .

    At first, everyone on the team got   3   playing time. Then the team moved up to the top division after winning all its games, and the   4   started. Some parents, who had paid the coach extra so their daughters could have   5   one-on-one training, got angry when she didn’t give them more playing time in our   6  . The coach was replaced.

    The new coach, however, took all the fun out of the game: All we did during practice was __7__. I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the   8  . Of course, all teams run drills; they are   9  . But we ran so much that, afterwards, we had trouble   10  . Younger people shouldn’t be doing exercises  11   for 18-year-olds.

    I was very thin   12   I started football, but as a member of this team I wouldn’t eat much, because I was afraid of being too   13   to run. I feared making mistakes, and the added pressure caused me to make more than my usual   14  .

    Is all this pressure necessary? I   15   up leaving the football team. Four other girls did the same, and two of them stopped playing football completely. That’s   16  , because they had so much potential. They were just burned-out with all the pressure they   17   from the coach or their parents.

    I continued playing football at school and   18   my love for it. I joined a private team coached by my school coach. When I started playing   19   him, he told me I needed to relax because I looked nervous. After I   20   down, I played better. When you enjoy something, it’s a lot easier to do it well.

1. A. class                          B. club                 C. team                       D. board

2. A. playing                B. living                C. learning                         D. working

3. A. great                          B. equal               C. right                        D. extra

4. A. business                    B. struggle                  C. attempt                          D. pressure

5. A. free                            B. private                    C. good                       D. basic

6. A. matches                     B. courses                  C. lessons                          D. programs

7. A. jump                           B. play                 C. run                         D. shoot

8. A. duty                           B. meeting                  C. operation                D. training

9. A. necessary                  B. boring                     C. scientific                 D. practical

10. A. speaking                  B. moving                    C. sleeping                        D. breathing

11. A. used                         B. intended                 C. made                      D. described

12. A. till                      B. since                C. before                           D. because

13. A. full                            B. tired                 C. lazy                         D. big

14. A. size                          B. share               C. space                            D. state

15. A. gave                        B. kept                 C. ended                            D. picked

16. A. sad                          B. shameful          C. silly                         D. serious

17. A. received                   B. suffered                  C. brought                         D. felt

18. A. reconsidered           B. rediscovered          C. re-formed               D. replaced

19. A. at                      B. by                           C. for                                 D. around

20. A. fell                            B. stepped                  C. slowed                       D. calmed

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1-5 CABDB   6-10 ACDAD     11-15 BCABC        16-20 ADBCD     

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