标题: LESSON 12 coach a football team [打印本页] 作者: tingroom 时间: 2010-12-9 11:30 标题: LESSON 12 coach a football team
listen to the material carefully,although it is difficult and sometime you can't write down the correct answer.As long as you have tried,whatever you write down will be the harvest of yours.You should believe that only by accumulating little by little could you learn English welll.so come on.
As a boy growing up in Pakistan, Zak Ahmad dreamed of coaching a football team. At the age of 21, he moved to Australia to pursue that dream. But one week after arriving, his life suddenly changed.
"My both legs, they were not able to move. So doctors, they had just said that it would be a miracle if you come out of it, because _____________________ for this disease." Ahmad had contracted polio, a disease that paralyzes and sometimes kills its victims."I thought that my dreams are over now, I can't, like, do anything in my whole life. And I was really much shocked." Ahmad's experience is not unique. Hundreds of thousands of people used to get polio, a virus that _____________________.
Polio is no longer a concern in Western countries because of mass inoculations starting in the 1950s. But children in developing nations lived under the constant risk of infection until more recently, when an international service club took aim at eliminating the disease.
"It's here in the small Australian town of Nambour that the battle to eradicate polio began. It was one man's vision that if just 2 drops, from a bottle like this one, could prevent children from getting the disease, that _____________________. Now, 20 years on, they say they're 3 years away from realizing that vision."