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题组层级快练(四) Ⅰ.完形填空 It was an early September day, cool and bright and just fight for running, and I was in the first few miles of a 10-mile race over a course with a few high hills. __1__, I felt energetic; despite the hills it was going to be a(n) __2__ run. Just ahead of me was Peggy, a teacher from Mount Kisco. She was too running __3__, moving along at my speed. The pace felt comfortable, so I decided to __4__ where I was. Why pay attention to __5__ when she was setting such a good one? I'd overtake (追上) her sooner or later when she was tired. So I ran behind her. The course __6__ north for five miles, wandered west for a hilly mile, and then turned south again along a winding road. The race was getting __7__. We had four miles __8__ and already it was beginning to be real work. Peggy overtook a young runner. She seemed to __9__ him, for they exchanged a few cheerful words as she passed him. Their exchange __10__ me. You don't chat during a race __11__ you are feeling good and Peggy plainly was. Still, I was __12__ enough to overtake her if she was tired, so I didn't give up hope completely. We were getting nearer to a tong, punishing hill now and it would be a __13__ We were a mile from the finish line, __14__ whatever happened on the hill would almost determine who crossed it first. | 
