I was fifteen months old, a happy kid until the day I fell. It was a
31 fall. I landed on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to make it blind. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched(缝合) the eyeball together where it was
32 , leaving a big ugly scar(疤痕) in the middle of my eye. The attempt
33 , but my mother, in all of her wisdom, found another doctor who knew that if the eye were removed
34 , my face would grow up badly distorted(扭曲)，
35 my scarred, sightless, cloudy and gray eye lived on with me. As I grew, this sightless eye in so many ways
36 me.
I walked with my face looking at the
37 so that people would not see the
38 me. Yet my mother would say to me, at every turn, “Hold your head up high and
39 the world. If you hold your head up high, it will be OK, and people will see your
40 soul.” She continued this
41 whenever I was trying to hide.
Mama’s words were of great help for me to face the world
42 . As a teenager, even though I tended to look down to hide my shame, I found that sometimes when I held my head up high and let people know me, they
43 me. In high school, I was
44 both academically and socially. I was
45 elected class president. My mother’s words helped me begin to realize that by letting people look at my face, I let them
46 the intelligence and beauty behind both eyes, even if they couldn’t see it on the
47 .
Now I’m a happy wife and great mother. The message “Hold your head up high,” has been
48 many times in my
49 home. Each of my children has felt
50 invitation, and the gift my mother gave me has lived on in another generation.
| 小题1: | | A．surprising | B．sudden | C．big | D．bad |
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| 小题2: | | A．separated | B．destroyed | C．cut | D．hurt |
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| 小题3: | | A．failed | B．tried | C．succeeded | D．managed |
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| 小题4: | | A．quickly | B．entirely | C．carefully | D．slowly |
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| 小题6: | | A．protected | B．affected | C．stopped | D．interrupted |
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| 小题7: | | A．floor | B．world | C．front | D．people |
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| 小题8: | | A．shy | B．eldly | C．ugly | D．strange |
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| 小题9: | | A．deal with | B．see | C．laugh at | D．face |
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| 小题10: | | A．different | B．beautiful | C．lonely | D．honest |
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| 小题11: | | A．sentence | B．passage | C．opinion | D．message |
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| 小题12: | | A．bravely | B．proudly | C．simply | D．fairly |
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| 小题13: | | A．disliked | B．liked | C．hated | D．noticed |
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| 小题14: | | A．comfortable | B．valuable | C．successful | D．special |
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| 小题15: | | A．nearly | B．even | C．hardly | D．still |
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| 小题16: | | A．touch | B．observe | C．watch | D．recognize |
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| 小题17: | | A．surface | B．outing | C．head | D．scar |
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| 小题18: | | A．discussed | B．heard | C．talked | D．written |
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| 小题19: | | A．brave | B．peaceful | C．sweet | D．exciting |
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