When I was in the 8th grade in Ohio, a girl named Helen in my class had a terrible accident. As she was
36 to the bus in order not to miss it, she slipped on the ice and fell under the back wheels of the bus. She
37 the accident but was paralyzed from the waist down. I went to see her, in my 13-year-old
38 thinking that she wouldn’t live
39 from then on.
Over the years, I
40 and didn’t think much about Helen after that. Three years ago, in Florida, my oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike,
41 a terrible brain injury. While I was looking after my son, a lady who said she was the hospital’s social worker called. It was a (an) 42 trying day. I burst into tears for no reason and rang
43 .
A short time 1ater, a beautiful woman, in a wheelchair,
44 into my son’s room with a box of
45 . After 16 years, I still
46 Helen. She smiled, handed me the tissues and hugged me. I told her who I was, and after we both went through the shock of that, she began to tell me about
47 since we last saw each other. She married, had children and got her degree so that she
48 the path for those people who were less
49 than her. She told me that if there was anything she could give me, it would be
50 .
Looking at this wonderful, giving person, I felt
51 . But I also felt the first hope I had since learning that my son was
52 . From this person that I thought would have no
53 of life, I learned that where there is life, there is hope. My son miraculously
54 and we moved north, but I owe Helen
55 that I can never repay.
| 小题1: | | A．walking | B．riding | C．running | D．driving |
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| 小题2: | | A．lived | B．survived | C．existed | D．escaped |
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| 小题3: | | A．mind | B．brain | C．head | D．thought |
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| 小题4: | | A．equally | B．calmly | C．quietly | D．normally |
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| 小题5: | | A．studied | B．moved | C．worked | D．1ived |
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| 小题6: | | A．suffering | B．causing | C．bearing | D．catching |
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| 小题7: | | A．normally | B．particularly | C．necessarily | D．eventually |
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| 小题9: | | A．ran | B．walked | C．rolled | D．moved |
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| 小题10: | | A．tissues | B．presents | C．pills | D．candies |
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| 小题11: | | A．realized | B．knew | C．recognized | D．reminded |
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| 小题12: | | A．her life | B．her son | C．her family | D．her work |
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| 小题13: | | A．cleared | B．smoothed | C．cleaned | D．opened |
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| 小题14: | | A．rich | B．healthy | C．strong | D．fortunate |
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| 小题15: | | A．money | B．hope | C．pity | D．medicine |
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| 小题16: | | A．small | B．pitiful | C．weak | D．shameless |
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| 小题17: | | A．admitted | B．beaten | C．hurt | D．hospitalized |
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| 小题18: | | A．use | B．value | C．meaning | D．quality |
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| 小题19: | | A．treated | B．worsened | C．relieved | D．recovered |
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| 小题20: | | A．some money | B．some tissues | C．a debt | D．a hope |
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