Question

On a Saturday morning, my left arm went numb (麻 木的)，and I felt dizzy. I was taken to hospital. After a quick 1 ，the doctor said I had a stroke. As waves of paralysis(癱瘓）came over me, I slowly lost 2 of my body. I was just 50 and I couldn’t believe it.

After two operations，I was transferred to the Recovery Center (恢復中心）.Though I had lost the use of my 3 arm and leg and couldn’t see out of my left eye, the only thought on my mind was to return to my job. But in fact I needed to relearn how to 4 and see first and this just made me feel like it was 5 to become well again.

A few days after my first discouraging physical therapy(治療）session, my mother came into my room with a neatly-typed 6 written by a nine-year-old boy named Jackson. He told me about the stroke he’d had only a year earlier. He, too, had been paralyzed on his left side. But, beyond telling me what he had lost, Jackson shared what I would 7 “Do not give up on yourself. All the hard work is worth it.，’ he wrote.

And the advice kept on coming. He told me to 8 the therapy on the hospital’s “ grown-up ’  floor，where “they make you work hard and you get lots of things back fast. ’，Here I was,a grown man and a senator(參 議員）of Illinois，getting 9 from a young boy I had 10  met.   After a few weeks of writing letters to each other, I arranged for us to meet. He seemed 11 at first, but the embarrassing situation quickly melted away. Jackson showed me how he could run, and I immediately felt encouraged. One thing I particularly 12 was the energy and dignity radiating from him.

As for my recovery, it 13 just as Jackson said it would. After a year of intense physical therapy, I climbed to the top of the Capitol and returned to work. With every step I took,    I    thought of Jackson    and    his

courage and confidence. Whenever I was tired or    14    ,

I thought of him, the world’s 15 boy.

(    B    ) 1. A. decision    B.    examination

C. description    D.    discussion

(D    )2.    A. hope    B. sight

C. memory    D.    control

(B    )3.    A. right    B. left

C. single    D. only

(C    )4.    A.speak    B.run

C. stand    D.    climb

(    C    )5. A. important    B.    helpful

C. impossible    D.    cruel

(B    )6.    A. book    B. letter

C. novel    D.    present

(    D    )7. A. experience    B.    discover

C. lose    D.    get

(    A    )8. A. attend    B.    refuse

C. end    D.    overcome

(    C    )9. A. information    B.    knowledge

C. advice    D.    success

(    D    ) 10. A. sometimes    B. seldom

C. ever    D.    never

(    B    ) 11. A. confident    B.    nervous

C. upset    D.    serious

(    B    ) 12. A. expected    B.    admired

C. recalled    D.    believed

(A ) 13. A. came    B.    fell

C. stayed    D.    disappeared

(    A    ) 14. A. discouraged    B. encouraged

C. lazy    D.    patient

(c ) 15. A. kindest    B.    oldest

C. strongest    D.    earliest

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