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I was loading my truck to go to the flea market when a hook(钩子) on one of the bungees bent and
broke back into my left eye. The
1 was like a hot sword had been struck through my head. I fell down
on my hands and knees, and
2 I saw blood dripping onto the ground, I knew it was
3 .
They
4 me to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, where there's a special eye center. The
5 there
operated on me several times but couldn't save my eye. When they told me the news, I wanted to
6 .
Even after I got my prosthetic eye (义眼), I couldn't
7 off the depression. To make matters worse,
I lost my job as a transportation officer for the Tennessee Department of Children's Services because of
8 about my driving ability. But one morning, I woke up and the TV was
9 , and there was a
16-year-old girl. She had been
10 burned on her face, hands, and legs and was learning to walk again.
She
11 a big smile and seemed to look right at me and said, "You can't ever give up. " At that moment,
I thought, this is just a (n)
12 . Get over it. And I
13 .
It's been almost 12 years since my
14 , and there isn't anything I can't do now that I used to do.
Although I didn't get my
15 job back, I could do something else to
16 a happy life.
I read a
17 once where a man was feeling bad because he had no
18 , until he met a man who
had no feet. No matter how destroying your problem is,
19 there's always someone somewhere
who's worse off.
20 having just one eye, I see things a lot more clearly now.
( )1. A.fight ( )2. A.before ( )3. A.bad ( )4. A.forced ( )5. A.doctors ( )6. A.rise ( )7. A.set ( )8. A.possibilities ( )9. A.off ( )10. A.badly ( )11. A.developed ( )12. A.ear ( )13. A.worked ( )14. A.accident ( )15. A.new ( )16. A.build ( )17. A.humor ( )18. A.clothes ( )19. A.remember ( )20. A.Through |
B.pain B.though B.good B.passed B.workers B.stay B.shake B.decisions B.up B.carefully B.covered B.eye B.stopped B.experiment B.hard B.lead B.joke B.jackets B.forget B.Despite |
C.injury C.because C.strange C.took C.teachers C.leave C.turn C.chances C.on C.finally C.enjoyed C.arm C.did C.argument C.easy C.search C.poem C.shoes C.promise C.Without |
D.wound D.when D.lucky D.gave D.soldiers D.die D.leave D.concerns D.down D.hardly D.wore D.nose D.helped D.quarrel D.former D.avoid D.story D.trousers D.prove D.Beyond |