I was now five, and still I showed no much interest in things except with my toes（脚趾）. I could not look after myself,
35 my father took care of me. I used to lie on my back all the time in the kitchen. I was
36 , imprisoned（监禁） in a world of my own, unable to communicate with others.
Then, suddenly, it happened on the afternoon of a cold December day. All the family were gathered round the big kitchen fire. Mona and Paddy were drawing funny animals, using a bright piece of yellow chalk. It was the chalk that
37 me so much. I had never seen anything like it before.
Suddenly, I wanted to do what my sister was doing. Then without thinking or knowing exactly what I was doing, I
38 out and took the chalk out of my sister’s hand, with my left foot. It is a puzzle（迷惑）to many people as well as to
39 . I held the chalk tightly between my toes and made a wild scribble（乱涂）with it on the board. Next moment I stopped, not knowing what to do with the chalk next, hardly knowing how it
40 there. Then I looked up and realized that everyone was looking at me
41 . My mother came in. Her eyes looked from my face down to my
42 , then she took another piece of chalk from Mona, and drew the single letter “A” on the floor in front of me. “Copy that, Christy.” She said. I tried to do the same action, but I
43 . “Try again, Chris.” she whispered in my ear. I tried another two more times. I drew one side of the letter, then the other. It looked ugly, but I
44 to make it finally. I had done it! True! I couldn’t speak with my mouth, but now I would speak through something more
45 than spoken words. That one letter was my
46 to a new world, my key to mental freedom.
| 小题2: | | A．lost | B．lonely | C．tired | D．weak |
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| 小题3: | | A．troubled | B．worried | C．reminded | D．interested |
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| 小题4: | | A．dropped | B．set | C．checked | D．reached |
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| 小题6: | | A．got | B．stuck | C．worked | D．arrived |
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| 小题7: | | A．angrily | B．sadly | C．silently | D．carefully |
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| 小题9: | | A．froze | B．forgot | C．fell | D．failed |
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| 小题10: | | A．tried | B．managed | C．offered | D．decided |
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| 小题11: | | A．lasting | B．interesting | C．moving | D．surprising |
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| 小题12: | | A．dream | B．tool | C．gift | D．road |
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