Passage Three

Passage Three
Every country has its heroes.They maybe soldiers or sports people,doctors or film stars.We
admire them for their courage,theirstrength,their devotion to duty or their talent.Their example inspires us tolive better,to work harder.
Terry Fox was a youngstudent who loved life and who loved sports.When he was just 18 years old aterrible tragedy occurred:his right leg had to be cut off because of cancer.Such an experience would have destroyed a weaker person--but Terry Fox was afighter.He refused to give up.Instead,while he was recovering from theoperation,an idea slowly formed in his mind.He decided he would run acrossCanada--in order to raise money for cancer research.
Slowly and carefully,he began to train.Every step was extremely painful,but he insisted,increasingthe distance covered day by day.Sixteen months later,in the spring of 1980,he was ready for the long journey across Canada--his Marathon of Hope.It was atime of inspiration and heart-breaking emotion.Through television,every homesaw his distinctive style of running--a kind of?half-hop and half-run.Thousands ofpeople lined the route to encourage him and to wish him well.They also gavemoney to fight cancer.Then,on September 1st,1980,after 143 days and morethan5,000 kilometers completed,everything came tragically to an end.Terry hadto stop.He lived on for?anothernine months and died on June 28th,1981.He was almost 23.

Terry Fox ran his journey___.

A.with thousands of people supporting him
B.without raising any money
C.with few people watching him on TV
D.with his teachers and classmatesfollowing him