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I didn't cry when I learned I was the parent of a mentally handicapped (弱智的) child.
"Go ahead and cry,"the doctor __
1__ kindly.But I couldn't cry then nor during the months that followed.
We sent her to a kindergarten in our neighborhood at age seven.I worried that she was the "__
2__"
child among twenty fiveyearolds.
__
3__,positive things began to happen to Kristi in her school,and to her schoolmates,too.When
talking big of their own accomplishments,Kristi's classmates always took __
4__ to praise her as well,"
Kristi got all her spelling words right today."No one would say that her spelling list was easier than anyone else's.
During Kristi's second year in school,she __
5__ a very special challenge.The big public event of the
term was a __
6__ based on the final outcome of the year's music and physical education activities.Kristi
was __
7__ in both.My husband and I felt __
8__ about the day as well.
On the day of the program,Kristi __
9__ to be sick.Desperately I wanted to keep her home.Why let
Kristi fail in a gymnasium __
10__ with parents,students and teachers?What a simple __
11__!But I finally
got her onto the school bus.
Just as I had forced my daughter to go to school,now I forced myself to go,too.Then I knew Kristi's
__
12__.Her class was divided into relay teams.With her slow and clumsy reactions,she would surely
__
13__ her team.
But as Kristi's turn to __
14__ neared,a change took place in her team.The tallest boy in the line
stepped __
15__ Kristi and placed his hands on her waist.Two other boys stood a little ahead of her.
The __
16__ the player in front of Kristi stepped from the sack(bag),the two boys seized it and held it
open while the tall boy __
17__Kristi and dropped her neatly into the sack.A girl ahead took her hand
and supported her until she gained her __
18__.Then off Kristi hopped (跳跃),smiling and proud.
At the cheers of the crowd,I slipped out to thank Heaven for the warm and considerate people
making it possible for my __
19__daughter to be like her fellow human beings.Then I finally __
20__.
( ) 1. A. demanded ( ) 2. A. common ( ) 3. A. Thus ( ) 4. A. pains ( ) 5. A. failed ( ) 6. A. competition ( ) 7. A. stupid ( ) 8. A. annoyed ( ) 9. A. wanted ( )10. A. filled ( )11. A. approach ( )12. A. worry ( )13. A. hold on ( )14. A. participate ( )15. A. around ( )16. A. interval ( )17. A. caught ( )18. A. access ( )19. A. nervous ( )20. A. recovered |
B. requested B. different B. Therefore B. time B. accepted B. conclusion B. slow B. anxious B. happened B. jammed B. method B. disaster B. hold out B. operate B. off B. moment B. lifted B. position B. slim B. cried |
C. advised C. excellent C. Eventually C. efforts C. faced C. conference C. serious C. guilty C. pretended C. covered C. key C. choice C. hold over C. practise C. behind C. chance C. protected C. speed C. disabled C. prayed |
D. joked D. casual D. However D. measures D. shared D. ceremony D. awkward D. tough D. proved D. burdened D. solution D. error D. hold up D. show D. beside D. point D. hid D. balance D. delicate D. applauded |