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WELCOME UNIT
话题十三 战胜恐惧
超越自我
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(2023·辽宁省沈阳二中高一期中考试)My friend was trying to get me to ride a roller coaster—any roller coaster—at Wonderland amusement park in Toronto. But the click, click, click of the cars climbing up the tracks made me fear. The stop at the top, before falling with people's screams, seemed terrible.
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My friends were still trying to persuade me, and I was still saying no, when I suddenly saw a familiar face, one I had never seen outside a television set. It was Jennifer Capriati—a popular tennis star at the top of her game, already winning titles at the age of fourteen. She was my heroine. I pulled out a pen and the only paper that I could find and walked to her.
She was weaving her way through a rope that led to a ride called the Jet Scream. I was running quickly because I didn't want to pass up the chance to meet her face to face, but I was also a bit nervous, so I waited at the exit to calm down and get closer to her as she came off the ride.
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I watched her climb into a giant spaceship that started to slowly rock. It was soon swinging around in nearly a full circle, putting the screaming riders at unnatural angles. The Jet Scream is the type of ride that could easily make me throw up in two seconds, and I couldn't bear to watch.Several minutes later,she got out from the exit, laughing and talking with her brother. I focused on her walking toward me. I looked down at the ground. She walked past. It was more difficult to talk to a star than I thought, but I had to take the chance. I called her name, not very confidently, but more like a question, “Jennifer?” She turned around. Her eyes met mine. Our eyes actually met!
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“Would you mind signing for me?” I asked, handing the pen and paper toward her. Her hand wrote over the paper and said, “You are the first person who has recognized me in the park so let's take a ro