Part Ⅳ  Cloze （10%）

As I was growing up, my life went around soccer(足球）。I played on the national youth soccer teams, and traveled to Europe. At age fifteen, I spent a summer ____(56) with a professional team in England. I always knew I was going to be a professional soccer _____(57). I had a _______(58) soccer scholarship to a top Midwest university.

But when I got to college, things began to ____(59). I started to see everything I had missed _____(60) the way. My high school years had been filled _____(61) practices and games and I didn’t get to do a lot of the other things my friends were doing.At college , I ______(62) to be “normal”. I was feeling tired out and ____(63). Finally, I decided to give ____(64) the college life that was similar to my high school days. I walked away ___(65) soccer and  my scholarship.

I ____(66) myself for the life I was living for a while because soccer was the only thing in my life for which I ever had a passion. After a ______(67) of struggle, I went to another university and finished school there. Then I did quite a ___(68) jobs. I worked in a financial company, then for an Internet company, etc. I ____(69) wasn’t happy.

_____(70) back, I can see that these jobs weren’t based on the ____(71) that were important to me, honestly, stability, and family. Then an old soccer coach(教练）of mine called and ____(72) an opportunity -----teaching soccer and other sports to little kids. I thought, “Could this be my calling?”

I’ve been teaching now for a ____(73) of years and really love it. I’m working with kids, ____(74) I enjoy. I’m playing soccer again. However, life is ____(75) from that of the past days when I lived for only practices and games. Life is so colorful and attractive now.