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Ryan was very excited. He had been selected to ___1___
his school in the National Inter-School Decathlon
Meet. A decathlon is a sport competition that ___2___
of ten individual events.
On the ___3___
of the competition. Ryan was at the competition
grounds early. There were five other participants ___4___
himself. The first ___5___
was the one hundred meters dash. When the gun ___6___,
Ryan ran as fast as his legs could ___7___
him. To his disappointment, he only ___8___
in second.
As the day wore ___9___,
Ryan became more and more discouraged. He had
obtained number of second and third ___10___
but he had not won a ___11___
event. During the tenth event, the 1500 meters run,
Ryan did his best, ___12___
only managed to come in third. With a heavy ___13___,
he walked away, feeling that he had let his school ___14___.
To his astonishment, he saw his schoolmates rushing
to congratulate ___15___.
"You did it, Ryan ! You won !" they shouted.
Ryan ___16___
dumbfounded.
"How ___17___
I have won ? I did not ___18___
win a single event !" he exclaimed.
His coach ___19___
was standing nearby, explained:
"In a decathlon, you get a ___20___
of points for each event. So what is important
___21___
not just to win but to do consistently well ___22___
all the events. ___23___
will enable you to score many points. You won
because you scored the ___24___
points overall. Congratulations, Ryan. The whole
school is ___25___
of you."
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