Just before that, I had been roller skating and playing baseball. But Dad encouraged me to take skating lessons. And soon I won local figure skating awards. Then came the Pacific Coast Championships in Los Angeles.

　　I, a very confident young girl, proud of the praise of friends and newspapers, walked into the stadium expecting to add another honour to my recent victories. Out on the ice, I thoroughly enjoyed myself, skimming through the camel spin, double axle, paragraph three, and all the other figures I knew so well. But when the results were announced, out of 12 competitors I finished last."You didn't skate your best！" I knew that only one person had beaten me that day - myself, my own self­satisfaction.

　　When I trained for the Olympics, I'd practice the same 69 figures over and over, eight hours a day, six days a week. A skater must do five figures for the Olympics, but you aren't told until the last minute which figures these will be. So you must have_all_69_down_pat. Often in the middle of practicing a figure, the other Peggy Fleming would whisper，"Good enough! Why push yourself so hard？" And then I'd remember my lesson in Los Angeles.

　　Now I skate professionally. But I still face this deadly competitor. I firmly believe that each of us has been given a special talent. If we bury our talent in our own self­satisfaction and simply do not want to make the effort, we fail our world and ourselves.

　　语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。作者通过自己的亲身经历向我们讲述了骄傲自满的可怕后果。

　　19．The other Peggy Fleming mentioned in Paragraph 1 refers to ________.

　　A．a popular athlete

　　B．the author herself

　　C．the author's model

　　D．a previous champion

　　解析：选B　推理判断题。根据第三段中的"only one person had beaten me that day - myself, my own selfsatisfaction"和第四段中的"Often in the middle of practicing a figure, the other Peggy Fleming would whisper"可知，这里的"the other Peggy Fleming"指的就是作者自己，故选B。

　　10．Upon knowing her result at the Pacific Coast Championships, the author might feel ________.

　　A．quite content　　　　　 B．extremely nervous

　　C．really angry D．very disappointed

解析：选D　推理判断题。根据第三段中的"expecting to add another honour to my