In 1970, at the age of 35, my father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. There was not much
done at that time and my father had to rely on the medication and treatment that were
at that time. But one thing was
, my father was not a quitter. He was a teacher who
children with special educational needs in Chicago Public High School. Every day we would hear
about “his kids”. These “kids” did not usually
my sister and I.
One day, my father arrived at his school and walked up the
for his first period. He was having a very
day because the disease was really taking everything out of him. He
once and bruised (擦伤) his knee but he still kept going.
did he know that someone was watching.
As the day
his steps began to get a little lighter. At the end of the day, he was about to leave
a young girl entered his office. He had met her in the hallway but she was not one of his
. He asked what he could do for her and she said, “I just wanted to thank you for
my life.”
He looked at her and couldn’t
what he had done. She then went on
. “When I got up this morning, I felt as if I was at the end of my
and ready to kill myself. But when I saw you trying to go up the stairs and then you fell, I felt
and the feeling of sadness just kept getting
. And now you are walking as
as ever. It’s really true that everything will get better as the days go on.”
| 小题1: | | A．information | B．research | C．knowledge | D．experience |
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| 小题2: | | A．favorable | B．believable | C．reasonable | D．available |
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| 小题3: | | A．obvious | B．special | C．natural | D．strange |
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| 小题4: | | A．abandoned | B．followed | C．taught | D．attended |
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| 小题5: | | A．stories | B．jokes | C．songs | D．humors |
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| 小题6: | | A．connect | B．change | C．mean | D．defeat |
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| 小题7: | | A．mountains | B．stairs | C．ladders | D．streets |
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| 小题8: | | A．normal | B．pleasant | C．simple | D．difficult |
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| 小题9: | | A．fell | B．stood | C．happened | D．appeared |
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| 小题10: | | A．Few | B．Little | C．Seldom | D．Never |
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| 小题11: | | A．arrived | B．progressed | C．broke | D．stopped |
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| 小题12: | | A．until | B．before | C．when | D．while |
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| 小题13: | | A．students | B．friends | C．teachers | D．workers |
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| 小题14: | | A．losing | B．giving | C．passing | D．saving |
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| 小题15: | | A．write down | B．figure out | C．cut off | D．put up |
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| 小题16: | | A．responding | B．admitting | C．explaining | D．complaining |
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| 小题18: | | A．sorry | B．bad | C．lucky | D．proud |
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| 小题19: | | A．lower | B．weaker | C．higher | D．stronger |
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| 小题20: | | A．carefully | B．quickly | C．lightly | D．slowly |
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