| A．overuse | B．maintain | C．disregard | D．promote |
| A．Such | B．It | C．What | D．That |
| A．unconscious | B．accessible | C．energetic | D．abstract |
| A．How | B．Why | C．Which | D．That |
| A．that | B．what | C．why | D．which |
| A．cuts down | B．puts up with | C．takes over | D．gets on with |
When I was ten years old, on a family vacation to Las Vegas, I felt very uncomfortable. I was immediately taken to the hospital. It turned out that I had a big stroke(中风). It made me no longer able to talk, read, write and understand what anyone was saying to me. The entire right side of my body had no feeling.
I stayed in the hospital for months. There I met my favorite doctor. Her last visit was the most important visit of all. She sent me a box as a gift. Inside was a little toy figure of a soldier. She said, “He’s a fighter. You should be like him, David. As long as you try to be him, you can triumph over your illness at last.” She moved her arms as she was fighting to help me understand.
The next few years’ fighting was really hard. I went to lots of speech and physical treatments. I did learn to walk again, but my right arm remained unable to feel anything. Slowly, I learned to talk again. I started with one syllable(音节)-then more. It allowed me to go to a special school. But I couldn’t even spell my own name. Everything was about language and letters. Talking was hard. So was reading. I was sad. But I was still intelligent. Eventually, I decided to let life move on and do something for other stroke survivors.
To help them, I founded a nonprofit organization. I wrote a book on stroke recovery, which has become a guide for stroke survivors and their family members. To help people like me, I also keep speaking at national conferences and hospitals about how to better recover from the disease. Recently, I was invited to speak at a stroke conference to doctors and patients and tell my story.
Today, I can walk, run, and drive. But I still can’t use my right arm. However, there are so many things I can do. The fight to recover is hard. I’ll never, ever give up.
1. What happened to the author when he was ten years old?(No more than 10 words)2. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?(1 word)
3. Why was the author sad in the special school? (No more than 10 words)
4. What’s Paragraph 4 mainly about?(No more than 10 words)
5. What do you think of the author? Please explain.(No more than 20 words)
| A．To reach | B．Reaching | C．Reached | D．Having reached |
| A．survive | B．exchange | C．concentrate | D．seek |
| A．which | B．that | C．where | D．when |
