Michelle is blind, but she makes such good use of her other senses that guests rarely realize that she is blind.
When my daughter Kayla came back from her home, she was very
1 about her day. She told me that she had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was especially excited about her finger-painting project. “I learned how to
2 colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! Michelle
3 with us too. She said she liked how the paint feels through her fingers,” said Kayla.
Something about my child’s excitement caught my
4 . this made me sit down and take a look at my child and at myself.
Then Kayla said, “Michelle told me my picture showed joy,
5 and a sense of accomplishment. She
6 saw what I was doing!” Kayla said she had never felt how good finger-painting felt until Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.
This is when I realized Kayla didn’t know that Michelle was blind. It had just never
7 in conversation. When I told her, she was quiet for a moment. At first, she didn’t 8 me. “ But mommy, Michelle understood exactly what was in my picture!” Kayla insisted. I knew my child was
9 because Michelle had listened to Kayla when she
10 her artwork. Michelle had listened to Kayla’s pride in her work, and her wonder at her discovery of the way colors blend.
小题1:1.
| A．satisfied | B．moved | C．excited | D．affected |
| 小题2: | | A．mix | B．combine | C．connect | D．join |
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| 小题3: | | A．wrote | B．dealt | C．contacted | D．painted |
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| 小题4: | | A．attention | B．sight | C．note | D．observation |
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| 小题5: | | A．discovery | B．understanding | C．pride | D．achievement |
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| 小题6: | | A．apparently | B．really | C．obviously | D．carefully |
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| 小题7: | | A．come around | B．com across | C．come through | D．come up |
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| 小题8: | | A．doubt | B．refuse | C．believe | D．approve |
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| 小题9: | | A．right | B．polite | C．real | D．wrong |
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| 小题10: | | A．described | B．created | C．designed | D．invented |
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