IMAGINE a life without arms or legs! You can’t hold anyone in your   1 . You can’t walk anywhere with your feet. How would you last a day like that? Would you   2  at yourself in the mirror like Nick Vujicic, the 29-year-old Australian?
Nick was born without limbs（四肢）, so life was not   3  for him. At school many students played jokes on him   4  he looked different from everyone else. He was refused to be   5  friends, so he always felt   6 . However, he faced that bravely. He   7  to type and write with two toes（脚趾）at the age of six, and he could   8  surf and play golf. In college, he achieved great success and was among the   9  students in the studies. And he decided on   10  to do later in his life—to encourage others to work hard for their dreams.
Now Nick is one of the most popular   11  in the world. He travels to many countries and gives speeches about his story   12  difficulties. “Living life fully is about looking at what you   13 , not what you don’t have.” he said. His   14  encourages millions of people.
“I tell people to keep on getting up when they   15  and to always love themselves,” he said. “If I can encourage just one person, then my job in this life is done.”

I was 15 months old, a happy and carefree kid, until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I ____ on a piece of glass that cut my eye badly. From then on, my ugly, sightless, cloudy grey eye lived on ____ me.

    Sometimes people asked me embarrassing (使人难堪的) questions. Whenever the kids played ____, I was the "monster". I was always imagining that everyone looked down on me.

    Yet mum would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world." I began to depend on that ____.

    As a child, I thought mum meant, "Be careful, or you will fall down or run into something ____ because you are not looking." As a teenager, I usually looked down to ____ my shame. But I found that when I held my head up high, people liked me.

    In high school I even became the ____, but on the inside I still felt like a monster. All I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would ____ to my mum and she would look at me with loving eyes and say, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is ____ instead of your appearance (外貌).”

    My mum's love was the ____ that made me bright. I had faced hard times, and learned not only to be ____ but also to have deep compassion (同情) for others.

    “Hold your head up high” has been heard many times in my home. I tell ____ to my children. The gift my mum gave me will live on.  286

1.A. stood                   B. landed                     C. found                      D. worked

2.A. for                       B. like                           C. by                   D. with

3.A. games                           B. jokes                        C. toys                          D. sports

4.A. glass                     B. topic                        C. reply                        D. saying

5.A. immediately                 B. accidentally            C.continuously  D. expectedly

6.A. show                    B. meet                        C. behave                    D. hide

7.A. president            B. teacher                   C. teenager                 D. adult

8.A. write                    B. add                          C. cry                           D. face

9.A. beside                           B. outside          C. inside                      D. alongside

10.A. suggestion                 B. experience            C. sunshine                 D. introduction

11.A. confident                   B. unusual                   C. similar                     D. ordinary

12.A. it                                  B. them                        C. that                          D. those

I remember my maths teacher Mr Young very well. He stood out because the kids made fun of him. He was missing one of his fingers. In school Maths was my worst subject. I don’t think there was ever a day I went to school that I was not afraid.
One day, I was told that if I got one more E on my report card, my parents would be called to school.
I tried really hard for weeks to learn Maths. I just couldn’t understand how to make different parts of numbers into whole things; my brain just couldn’t do it, no matter how hard I tried.
The day before report cards were to come out, I knew that Mr Young would give me an E, just like he always did.
After class ended, I went to Mr Young and told him what would happen if I got another E. He told me there was nothing he could do; it would be unfair to the other kids if he gave me a better grade than I had actually earned.
I looked at the teacher and said, “Mr Young, you know how all the kids make fun of you because you’re missing your finger?”
He looked at me, and said nothing.
“They shouldn’t do that to you because you can’t help not having a finger, Mr Young. Just like I can’t help not being able to learn numbers and matters like that,” I said.
Again, he said nothing as he looked down at his desk, and began grading papers.
The next day, when I got my report card, I looked at my grades: Geography: B- , English: D-  , History: C- , Gym: B+ , Art: C, Maths: D- .
That Math grade was the most favorite one I ever received in my whole life. I knew that someone in the world finally understood what it was like for me to be missing a finger inside my head.
【小题1】Where was Mr Young different from others?

完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，计15分）
There was a woman in Detroit, who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially（尤其） the younger one, Ben, because he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class played jokes on him because he seemed so    1   . The mother   2   that she would help her sons to do   3   in school by herself. She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to   4   a book a week and do a book report for her.
One day, in Ben’s class, the teacher held up a rock and asked   5   anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him   6   . “Why did Ben raise his hand?” all of his.
   7  whispered and wondered. “He    8  said anything. What could he possibly want to say?” To their surprise, Ben not only   9   the rock, but also said a lot about it. He   10  other rocks in its group and even knew   11  the teacher had found it. The teacher and the other students were   12 . Ben had learned this from doing one of his book   13   .
Later Ben became the   14   student of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University and   15   became one of the best doctors in the United States.

完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，计15分）

There was a woman in Detroit, who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially（尤其） the younger one, Ben, because he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class played jokes on him because he seemed so    1   . The mother   2   that she would help her sons to do   3   in school by herself. She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to   4   a book a week and do a book report for her.

One day, in Ben’s class, the teacher held up a rock and asked   5   anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him   6   . “Why did Ben raise his hand?” all of his.

   7  whispered and wondered. “He    8  said anything. What could he possibly want to say?” To their surprise, Ben not only   9   the rock, but also said a lot about it. He   10  other rocks in its group and even knew   11  the teacher had found it. The teacher and the other students were   12 . Ben had learned this from doing one of his book   13   .

Later Ben became the   14   student of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University and   15   became one of the best doctors in the United States.

1.                A．clever          B．difficult         C．slow D．quick

2.                A．seemed        B．decided        C．wondered D．told

3.                A．well           B．bad            C．right D．good

4.                A．see            B．find            C．read D．buy

5.                A．that           B．if              C．how D．why

6.                A．think           B．leave           C．ask  D．answer

7.                A．classmates      B．students        C．teachers  D．friends

8.                A．always         B．ever           C．sometimes    D．never

9.                A．found          B．played          C．knew D．heard

10.               A．said           B．told           C．called D．named

11.               A．whether        B．what           C．where D．why

12.               A．afraid          B．amazed         C．worried   D．unhappy

13.               A．pictures        B．exercises       C．shops D．reports

14.               A．top            B．slow           C．low   D．rich

15.               A．at first         B．at the end       C．at last D．now