My crippled(瘸腿的)grandmother was dancing. I stood in the living room doorway, looking at her beautiful movements, completely
. Do you know she'd had her accident. I had read that in an old newspaper article.
‘‘So...Your leg? I mean,
did your leg heal(治愈)?"
“To tell you the truth my legs have been well all my life,” she said.
“But I don't understand!” I said, “Your dancing career...You
all these years?”
‘‘Very much so, and for a very good
.”
She thought for a while and then continued. “Your grandfather and I were talking about engagement(订婚)
he had to go to war. I was so afraid of losing him that the only way I could stay normal was to dance. I put all my heart
practicing and I became very good. The public loved me, but all I could feel worried about not knowing whether the love of my life would
return. One day a letter came, There were only three sentences: “I have lost my leg. I am no longer a
man and now give you back your freedom. It is best you forget about me.”
“I made my decision there and then. I traveled away from the city. When I returned I had bought
a stick. I told everyone I had been in a car crash and that my leg would never completely heal again. No one doubted the story l had learned to limp(一瘸一拐地走). And I made sure the first person to hear of my accident was a
I knew well. Then I went to the hospital. The nurses pushed your grandfather outside in his
.I took a deep breath, leaned on my stick and limped to him.”
I showed him newspaper articles of my accident. “There is a whole life waiting for us out there! But I am not going to
you. You are going to walk yourself.”
I limped a few steps toward him and showed him what I'd taken out of my pocket. “Now show me you are
a man.” I said.He bent to take his stick from the ground and struggled(挣扎) out of that wheelchair.He managed it on his own and walked to me and never sat in a wheelchair
in his life.”
“What did you show him?” I had to know. Grandma looked at me and smiled. “Two engagement rings, of course. I had bought them the day
he left for the war and I was not going to waste them on any other man.”
小题1:
A.dropped | B.defeated | C.shocked | D.pleased |
小题2:
小题3:
A.predicted | B.pretended | C.prepaired | D.preferred |
小题4:
A.reason | B.excuse | C.effect | D.result |
小题5:
A.where | B.while | C.when | D.since |
小题6:
小题7:
A.just | B.almost | C.ever | D.even |
小题8:
小题9:
A.myself | B.himself | C.ourselves | D.youself |
小题10:
A.doctor | B.reporter | C.visitor | D.leader |
小题11:
A.way | B.sunglass | C.car | D.wheelchair |
小题12:
A.take | B.fetch | C.carry | D.bring |
小题13:
A.hardly | B.still | C.also | D.never |
小题14:
A.again | B.about | C.above | D.along |
小题15:
A.though | B.unless | C.until | D.after |