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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 __
36__ 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 "__
37__"
child among twenty fiveyearolds.
__
38__,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 __
39__ 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 scho
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ol,she __
40__ a very special challenge.The big public event of the
term was a __
41__ based on the final outcome of the year's music and physical education activities.Kristi
was __
42__ in both.My husband and I felt __
43__ about the day as well.
On the day of the program,Kristi __
44__ to be sick.Desperately I wanted to keep her home.Why let
Kristi fail in a gymnasium __
45__ with parents,students and teachers?What a simple __
46__!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
__
47__.Her class was divided into relay teams.With her slow and clumsy reactions,she would surely
__
48__ her team.
But as Kristi's turn to __
49__ neared,a change took place in her team.The tallest boy in the line
stepped __
50__ Kristi and placed his hands on her waist.Two other boys stood a little ahead of her.The
__
51__ the player in front of Kristi stepped from the sack(bag),the two boys seized it and held it open
while the tall boy __
52__Kristi and dropped her neatly into the sack.A girl ahead took her hand and
supported her until she gained her __
53__.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 __
54__daughter to be like her fellow human beings.Then I finally __
55__.
( )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