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In 1883, a creative engineer, John Roebling, was inspired to build a splendid bridge connecting New
York with Long Island. However, experts throughout the world thought that this was__
1__. Even so,
Roebling could not__
2__the idea in his mind. After much discussion, he__
3__convince his son
Washington, an up-and-coming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built. They hired their__
4__
and
began to build their dream bridge.
Only a few months__
5__the project was underway, a tragic on-site accident killed John Roebling
and__
6__injured his son, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to move or__
7__. Surely now the
project would have to be__
8__. Though Washington Roebling lay in his hospital bed, he was not__
9__
and his mind remained as__1
0__as it was before the accident.Suddenly an idea__
11__him. All he could
move was one finger, so he__
12__the arm of his wife with that finger, __
13__to her that he wanted her
to call the engineers again.Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to
do. For 13 years Washington tapped out his__
14__with one finger until the bridge was__
15__
completed.
Perhaps this is one of the best examples of never-say-die attitude that__
16__a terrible physical
disability and achieves an impossible__
17__. Often when we face difficulties in our daily lives, our
problems seem very small__
18__what many others have to face. The Brooklyn Bridge shows us that
even the most__
19__dream can be realized with__
20__no matter what the chances are.
( )1. A. impossible ( )2. A. recognize ( )3. A. attempted to ( )4. A. family ( )5. A. since ( )6. A. severely ( )7. A. work ( )8. A. continued ( )9. A. defeated ( )10. A. sharp ( )11. A. beat ( )12. A. waved ( )13. A. appealing ( )14. A. orders ( )15. A. quickly ( )16. A. overcomes ( )17. A. award ( )18. A. combined with ( )19. A. primary ( )20. A. determination |
B. unnecessary B. accept B. sought to B. crew B. before B. slightly B. say B. abandoned B. hurt B. broad B. occurred B. felt B. speaking B. instructions B. partly B. acquires B. fortune B. separated from B. distant B. knowledge |
C. hard C. ignore C. failed to C. class C. after C. poorly C. eat C. interrupted C. frightened C. noble C. happened C. touched C. indicating C. suggestions C. eventually C. fights C. status C. compared to C. lifelong C. confidence |
D. excellent D. believe D. managed to D. team D. when D. hardly D. talk D. accomplished D. destroyed D. advanced D. hit D. held D. advising D. movements D. slowly D. removes D. goal D. concerned about D. good D. strength |