One afternoon in January in 1998, Susan Sharp, 43, and her 8-year-old son David, were walking across an icy square,
Susan's cane(手杖) slipped on the ice. Her face
first into the mud. David
her mother's side, “Are you all right, Mom”
, Susan pulled herself up, “I'm okay, Honey,” she said.
Susan was falling more
since she had trouble walking. Every inch of ice was a
danger for her. “I wish I could do something,” the boy thought. David, too, was having
of his own. The boy had a speech problem, so at school he talked
.
One day, David's teacher announced a
homework. "Each of you is going to come up with an
," she said. This was for "INVENT AMERICA", a national competition to encourage creativity in children.
An idea
David one evening. If only his mother's cane didn't slip on the ice. “What if I
your cane to a nail coming out of the bottom” he asked his mother.
“
the sharp end would scratch(划破) floors,” Susan said.
“No, Mom, I
make it like a ball-point pen. You take your hand off the button and the
returns back up.” Hours later the cane was finished. David and his father
as Susan used it to walk 50 feet about the
. Happily Susan cried out, “It
!”
In July 1999, David was
national winner for the "INVENT AMERICA". David began to make public appearance. Thus he was forced to communicate
.Today, David is nearly free of his speech problem, and his cane is becoming well accepted.
| 小题1: | | A．Where | B．while | C．when | D．then |
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| 小题2: | | A．fell | B．touched | C．lay | D．dropped |
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| 小题3: | | A．stood by | B．rushed to | C．looked at | D．ran around |
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| 小题4: | | A．Firmly | B．Easily | C．Quickly | D．Shakily |
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| 小题5: | | A．slowly | B．frequently | C．freely | D．heavily |
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| 小题6: | | A．hiding | B．certainly | C．possible | D．waiting |
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| 小题7: | | A．method | B．disease | C．trouble | D．hope |
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| 小题8: | | A．few | B．little | C．much | D．more |
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| 小题9: | | A．useful | B．strange | C．common | D．special |
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| 小题10: | | A．appearance | B．invention | C．experience | D．experiment |
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| 小题11: | | A．reminded | B．encouraged | C．occurred | D．hit |
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| 小题12: | | A．fastened | B．stuck | C．fixed | D．tied |
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| 小题14: | | A．might | B．would | C．did | D．need |
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| 小题15: | | A．pen | B．hand | C．cane | D．nail |
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| 小题16: | | A．watched | B．supported | C．noticed | D．helped |
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| 小题17: | | A．street | B．ice | C．yard | D．square |
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| 小题18: | | A．works | B．operates | C．succeeds | D．helps |
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| 小题19: | | A．declared | B．received | C．won | D．praised |
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| 小题20: | | A．more slowly | B．more carefully | C．more clearly | D．faster |
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