閱讀下面短文，用括號(hào)內(nèi)所給動(dòng)詞的適當(dāng)形式填空 ( 必要時(shí)可加情態(tài)動(dòng)詞或助動(dòng)詞) ,。
Afel was only a small boy when he first saw snow in a picture book. In the pictures he saw a lot of
children (1) ______ (play) in the snow.
Afel didn't understand what snow was. But he dreamed about snow all the time. He dreamed of being
able (2) ______ (fly) across the snow.
One day when he was twelve, Afel (3) ______ (watch) TV at his uncle's house. The program was
full of snow. Not only snow there were people flying across the snow.
"Look! They (4) ______ (fly)!" he shouted excitedly.
The snow, and the people… It was just like one of his dreams.
"They're skiing. It needs snow," said his uncle, "it's the Winter Olympics. It (5) ______ (hold) every
four years."
Afel (6)______ (find)out that the next Winter Olympics would be in Sochi, Russia in 2014.
"Perfect," he thought. "Enough time for me to become a good skier. I (7)______(go) to the
Winter Olympics, and win the gold medal for skiing."
"But there's no snow here!" people told him. "Where are you going to ski?"
Afel made himself a pair of skis and skied across the sand. At first he couldn't move, but he practised
and practised until he could move quite quickly.
"How will you go to the Winter Olympics?" people asked him. "Our country (8) ______ (not, have)
a team at all. Why (9) ______ (not, do) athletics (田徑) instead? We have lots of good runners. And
we (10) ______ (win) lots of medals at the Olympics."
Now Afel is practising skiing down sand dunes (沙丘). He dreams that the yellow sand and brown
earth of the desert (沙漠) is the white snow.
