完形填空。       About 10 years ago I taught a group of children to sail. They were bright, enthusiastic and as eager
to    1   life as any other children. All, however, had a serious    2 . Three were in wheelchairs, one was
nearly blind and two walked with difficulty, and another two    3  a lot from Cerebral palsy (脑瘫).
     Matthew was among them. His hands, arms, legs, and even his voice were all distorted (扭曲) from
the disease. To speak, Matthew had the help of a    4  . Slowly, and with determination, he would    5   with
distorted hands, letter by letter, what he wanted to say. Yet he was always bright and cheerful and loved
to    6   everything his classmates were doing, both in the boat and in the classroom.
      They learnt fast and enjoyed every minute of the    7  . But I think that 1 was the one who learned the
greatest lesson. One day the sailing centre was    8   by a storm. Rather than    9   the activity we decided
to work in a classroom. All the children    10  . Just like other children they all wanted to answer the
questions I asked.
     Often they would loudly    11   each other, trying to give an answer before one of the others. But when
Matthew wanted to answer a question it was    12  . All of a sudden they all    13  . Matthew whispered and moved his hands at his letter-board. They    14   with great patience. Matthew    15   with dogged
persistence (坚持) until the answer was    16  . When Matthew had answered his question the children
were, almost magically, transformed back into a group of    17   and enthusiastic children.
     All of these children were heroes in their own way. But the    18   they afforded to Matthew with his
most severe disabilities was    19  . If only the rest of the world were able to learn to afford care, respect
and help to someone less    20   than themselves, violence and intolerance (不宽容) would possibly be gone.

(     )1. A. enjoy         (     )2. A. shortcoming   (     )3. A. learned       (     )4. A. letter-board (     )5. A. show off     (     )6. A. understand   (     )7. A. days         (     )8. A. blocked       (     )9. A. complete     (     )10. A. ran away     (     )11. A. fight       (     )12. A. hopeless     (     )13. A. whispered   (     )14. A. laughed     (     )15. A. struggled   (     )16. A. cried out   (     )17. A. noisy       (     )18. A. thank       (     )19. A. relevant     (     )20. A. fortunate

B. start           B. disability     B. changed         B. tape-recorder   B. point out       B. criticize       B. classes         B. hit             B. check           B. got tired       B. limit           B. funny           B. smiled         B. waited         B. thought         B. typed out       B. polite         B. praise         B. angry           B. exciting

C. acknowledge     C. injury           C. suffered         C. computer         C. give away       C. remember         C. treatment       C. occupied         C. escape           C. joined in       C. interrupt       C. difficult       C. quieted         C. continued       C. practiced       C. spelled out     C. hard-working     C. pleasure         C. accessible       C. responsible

D. lead         D. habit         D. spent         D. microscope   D. adapt to     D. try           D. life         D. flown         D. cancel       D. fell asleep   D. stop         D. different     D. left         D. recorded     D. waved         D. tested out   D. clumsy       D. patience     D. encouraging   D. careful