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I was fifteen months old, a happy carefree kid until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a glass
rabbit, __1__ cut my eye badly enough to blind it. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched(缝上) the
eyeball together where it was cut, __2__ a big ugly scar in the middle of my eye. And as I grew, this
__3__ eye in so many ways controlled me.
I walked with my face looking at the __4__ so people would not see the ugly me. Sometimes people,
even strangers, asked me__5__questions or made hurtful remarks. When the kids played games, I was
always the "__6__".
Yet Mama would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world. If you hold your head up
high, people will see your beautiful __7__."
Those words have meant __8__ things to me over the years. As a little child, I thought Mama meant,
"Be careful, or you will fall down or __9__ something because you are not looking." As an adolescent, I
found that sometimes when I held my head up high and let people  10  me, they liked me. My mama's
words helped me begin to  11  that by letting people look at my face, I let them recognize the intelligence
and beauty  12  both eyes.
In high school I was  13  both academically and socially. I was even elected class president,   14  , all
I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would  15  to my mama
and she would look at me with  16  eyes and say, "Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them
see the beauty that is inside."
When I met the man who became my  17  for life, we looked each other straight in the eye, and he
told me I was beautiful inside and out. He  18  it. My mama's love and  19  were the spark that gave
me the confidence to  20  my own doubt.

(     )1. A. that         (     )2. A. achieving     (     )3. A. sightless     (     )4. A. sky           (     )5. A. outstandin   (     )6. A. monster       (     )7. A. face         (     )8. A. different     (     )9. A. look into     (     )10. A. recognize   (     )11. A. spot         (     )12. A. behind       (     )13. A. awful       (     )14. A. therefore   (     )15. A. smile       (     )16. A. terrible     (     )17. A. partner     (     )18. A. loved       (     )19. A. statement   (     )20. A. increase

B. which         B. beginning     B. careless       B. rabbit         B. inspiring     B. angel         B. eyes           B. strange       B. bump into     B. find           B. imagine       B. on             B. successful     B. however       B. laugh         B. awkward       B. colleague     B. got           B. encouragement B. emphasize

C. who           C. surviving     C. stainless     C. floor         C. astonishing   C. acquaintance C. head         C. stupid       C. burst into   C. identify     C. realize       C. beneath       C. cheerful     C. besides       C. cry           C. skeptical     C. leader       C. meant         C. treatment     C. plant

D. where         D. leaving       D. tasteless     D. scar         D. embarrassing D. stranger     D. soul         D. common       D. get into     D. know         D. comment       D. beside       D. grateful     D. and           D. scold         D. loving       D. master       D. hated         D. comment       D. overcome

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