“Look, it’s Baldy!” A boy shouted in my direction across the playground. Even though I was
used to regular insults（侮辱）because of the
41 on my head, it was
42 horrible to hear. I sighed as I headed back to the class.
When I was just 20 months old, I suffered serious
43 after a bowl full of hot oil fell on my head. I was
44 to hospital and had to stay there for weeks while the doctors
45 to save my life. “Holly’s very
46 to be alive,” they told Mum and Dad. “But she’ll be
47 with scars on her head, and of course her hair won’t grow there.”
As a child, I cared much about my scars, so I
48 wore a scarf to cover them up when I left home.
49 I didn’t, people would call me horrible names like Baldy. Although my friends were always comforting me, they never
50 understood how it felt.
Then through the hospital I was
51 to a children’s burns camp, where children like me can get any help. There I
52 14-year-old Stephanie, whose burns are a lot more serious than mine. But she is so
53 that she never lets anyone put her down. “You shouldn’t
54 what people say about what you look like because we’re not different from anyone else, Holly, ” She
55 me. “And you don’t need to wear a scarf because you look great
56 it!” For the first time in my life I could speak to someone who’d been through something
57 . So weeks later, at my 13
th birthday party,
58 by her bravery, I gave up my scarf and showed off my scars. It felt amazing not having to
59 away behind my scarf.
Now, I am
60 of what I look like and much happier, because I have realized it is your personality that decides who you are.
| 小题1: | | A．hat | B．scarf | C．scars | D．cuts |
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| 小题2: | | A．still | B．just | C．never | D．seldom |
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| 小题3: | | A．hunger | B．cold | C．defeats | D．burns |
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| 小题4: | | A．rushed | B．led | C．invited | D．forced |
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| 小题5: | | A．learned | B．fought | C．returned | D．decided |
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| 小题6: | | A．happy | B．lucky | C．lonely | D．poor |
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| 小题7: | | A．pressed | B．occupied | C．left | D．painted |
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| 小题8: | | A．possibly | B．usually | C．finally | D．nearly |
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| 小题9: | | A．Although | B．Since | C．If | D．Before |
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| 小题10: | | A．correctly | B．roughly | C．easily | D．really |
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| 小题11: | | A．promoted | B．introduced | C．reported | D．carried |
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| 小题12: | | A．met | B．recognized | C．remembered | D．caught |
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| 小题13: | | A．honest | B．strong | C．active | D．young |
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| 小题14: | | A．write down | B．agree with | C．pass on | D．listen to |
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| 小题15: | | A．promised | B．encouraged | C．ordered | D．calmed |
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| 小题16: | | A．in | B．for | C．without | D．beyond |
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| 小题17: | | A．similar | B．strange | C．hard | D．important |
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| 小题18: | | A．allowed | B．required | C．guided | D．inspired |
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| 小题20: | | A．sick | B．awake | C．tired | D．proud |
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