One afternoon in January in 1998, Susan Sharp, 43, and her 8-year-old son David, were walking across an icy square, when Susan’s cane(手杖) slipped on the ice. Her face
36 first into the mud. David
37 her mother’s side, “Are you all right, Mom”
38 , Susan pulled herself up, “I’m okay, Honey,” she said.
Susan was falling more
39 since she had trouble walking. Every inch of ice was a
40 danger for her. “I wish I could do something,” the boy thought. David, too, was having
41 of his own. The boy had a speech problem, so at school he talked
42 .
One day, David’s teacher announced a
43 homework. "Each of you is going to come up with an
44 ," she said. This was for "INVENT AMERICA", a national competition to encourage creativity in children.
An idea
45 David one evening. If only his mother’s cane didn’t slip on the ice. “What if I
46 your cane to a nail coming out of the bottom” he asked his mother.
“
47 the sharp end would scratch(划破) floors,” Susan said.
“No, Mom, I
48 make it like a ball-point pen. You take your hand off the button and the
49 returns back up.” Hours later the cane was finished. David and his father
50 as Susan used it to walk 50 feet about the
51 . Happily Susan cried out, “It
52 !”
In July 1999, David was
53 national winner for the "INVENT AMERICA". David began to make public appearance. Thus he was forced to communicate
54 .Today, David is nearly free of his speech problem, and his
55 is becoming well accepted.
1. A. fell
| B. touched
| C. lay
| D. dropped
|
2. A. stood by
| B. rushed to
| C. looked at
| D. ran around
|
3. A. Firmly
| B. Easily
| C. Quickly
| D. Shakily
|
4. A. slowly
| B. frequently
| C. freely
| D. heavily
|
5. A. hiding
| B. certainly
| C. possible
| D. waiting
|
6. A. method
| B. disease
| C. trouble
| D. hope
|
7. A. few
| B. little
| C. much
| D. more
|
8. A. useful
| B. strange
| C. common
| D. special
|
9. A. appearance
| B. invention
| C. experience
| D. experiment
|
10. A. reminded
| B. encouraged
| C. occurred
| D. hit
|
11. A. fastened
| B. stuck
| C. fixed
| D. tied
|
12. A. So
| B. And
| C. For
| D. But
|
13. A. might
| B. would
| C. did
| D. need
|
14. A. pen
| B. hand
| C. cane
| D. nail
|
15. A. watched
| B. supported
| C. noticed
| D. helped
|
16. A. street
| B. ice
| C. yard
| D. square
|
17. A. works
| B. operates
| C. succeeds
| D. helps
|
18. A. declared
| B. received
| C. won
| D. praised
|
19. A. more slowly
| B. more carefully
| C. more clearly
| D. faster
|
20. A. cane
| B. mother
| C. speech
| D. story
|