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Show, don't tell. |  |  |\n\nPART 1—READ  \nRead the passage. Then answer the questions.  \nScan Me  \nPractice  Progress  Succeed | New Jersey NJSLA Grade 7 English [W.7.3]  \n  [E](EffortlessMath.com)[f](EffortlessMath.com)[f](EffortlessMath.com)[o](EffortlessMath.com)[r](EffortlessMath.com)[t](EffortlessMath.com)[l](EffortlessMath.com)[e](EffortlessMath.com)[s](EffortlessMath.com)[s](EffortlessMath.com)[M](EffortlessMath.com)[a](EffortlessMath.com)[t](EffortlessMath.com)[h](EffortlessMath.com)[.](EffortlessMath.com)[c](EffortlessMath.com)[o](EffortlessMath.com)[m](EffortlessMath.com)  \nStudent draft-The Last Lap  \nThe starter's whistle bounced off the tile walls of the natatorium like a coin dropped into a metal bowl. Lane four-my lane-waited under the sharp blue of the pool lights, and the water was so still it looked almost solid. I rolled my shoulders, but the muscles felt like they belonged to somebody else, somebody braver. Six weeks of 5 a.m. practices had brought me here, and now I had to pretend I hadn't spent the bus ride trying to figure out which kind of disappointing I was about to be.  \nCoach Asha had told me one thing on the bus that morning. 'The 200 is not four 50s,' she'd said, dropping her clipboard on the seat beside me. 'It's one race in four chapters. Don't read ahead.' At the time I had nodded the way you nod when you don't really understand something but don't want the conversation to keep going. Standing on the block now, I finally understood: if I let myself imagine the last 50 before I'd even pushed off, I was going to drown the first one.  \nThe horn went off. I hit the water cleanly, and for a second the cold sealed itself around my ears like a held breath. Stroke. Breathe. Stroke. The first 50 felt like swimming through coffee. The second 50 was when I always lost time-my hips dropped, my kick fell apart-so I narrowed my eyes and pictured Coach Asha's blue clipboard at the end of the lane. Don't read ahead. By the wall I was even with the swimmer to my left, which had never happened before in any race.  \nThen the third 50, the chapter where I usually let myself believe I was already losing. I made a deal with my body: just hold form until the next turn, and then we can renegotiate. My fingertips touched the wall a half-second after the leader's, but the gap was smaller than at any practice I'd swum that month. I shoved off and broke the surface ready, for the first time, to fight for an ending.  \nThe last 50 was just sound-the slap of water, the muffled crowd, my own breath chopping in and out like a saw blade. I did not pass the leader. I did not win. 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