1. 短语填空

gather around, not...anymore, pack up, crash into, try out for, earn a place, let sb. down, pay off, keep up with

1. （1） These teams are going to the Olympic Games.
3. （2） After supper they the table and worked together.
5. （3） Efforts will sooner or later.
7. （4） A truck went out of control and the back of a bus.
9. （5） My father began to learn how to use a computer at the age of sixty so that he might the times.
11. （6） I promise that I will never my parents .
13. （7） This athlete hopes to in the Olympic team, so he has been practising hard.
15. （8） The teen used to be addicted to online games, but now he surf the Internet .
17. （9） They and went home.