1 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

I was sitting down in the examining room chair, annoyed that my mom had even scheduled the appointment when the doctor arrived and dove right in to the basic small talk about my health history. But then he threw in a question that shocked me, “So Robin, what are you going to do after high school?”

What was I going to do after high school? Was he kidding me? “don’t know,” I mumbled (嘟囔). I was seventeen. I didn’t have any idea what I was going to do after high school. My high school guidance teacher told me in certain terms that I wasn’t “college material” and I believed her. My grades were far from satisfactory. Education wasn’t exactly emphasized in my family.

“You don’t know? Well, why don’t you go to college to become a doctor like me?” He smiled as he glanced at his watch. Go to college to become a doctor? Who was this man kidding? I thought he was crazy for even suggesting it. No one in my family had even graduated from college, let alone become a doctor. And I wasn’t college material. “I’m not smart enough to be a doctor. ”

Hearing this, the doctor immediately turned toward me. He looked at me straight in the eyes when he very seriously said, “Let me tell you something: you don’t have to be smart to be a doctor. You just have to be persistent.” Then he turned around to gather his things and rushed off to his next appointment. I never saw him again.

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On the ride home I found myself thinking about the conversation with the doctor

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So, I began to focus on classes and break down the difficult things into steps

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2 . A Chinese woman who lost an eye in a road accident a decade ago has received high praise for developing cool-looking artificial eyes as she struggles to overcome appearance anxiety that often accompanies such a loss.

The former dancer and actress from Beijing, who is known by her online nickname, Xintong, completed the process of becoming a self-taught artificial eye maker, in 2020.

She spent years improving her skills through trial and error, driven by a desire to help others with a similar disability rediscover their confidence.

A decade after she lost her right eye in a car accident aged 18, and following years of self-hating, Xintong now runs her own artificial eye-making workshop.

From the beginning, her aim has been to help people like her by providing them with custom-made artificial eyes. “Because I once got wet in the rain, I now want to give others an umbrella,” she said.

The idea came from a “very cool” overseas artificial eye maker who did not care what other people said or thought about people who had lost an eye.

“People already look at me in a strange way, so why not exaggerate how I appear and use that to my advantage?” Xintong said.

However, Xintong found the artificial eyes she had to wear both ugly and uncomfortable. “I thought to myself, it would be great if I could produce ones according to my own taste,” she recalled.

She pursued her dream and in 2020 quit her teaching job to devote herself full-time to artificial eye-making.

Now she’s mastered the technique of making her ideal artificial eyes, opened a workshop and hired three assistants.

1. What do we know about Xintong?

A．She lost both of her eyes in a traffic accident recently.

B．She was worried about her looking after losing her eye.

C．She is highly praised for overcoming her appearance anxiety.

D．She learnt to make artificial eyes from others in 2020.

2. Why does Xintong run an artificial eye-making workshop?

A．To make money.

B．To rediscover her confidence.

C．To provide the disabled with custom-made artificial eyes.

D．To buy others an umbrella to avoid getting wet.

3. How did Xintong feel about the artificial eyes in the beginning?

A．She was unsatisfied with them.	B．She found them very comfortable.
C．She thought them very attractive.	D．She found them suitable to her taste.

4. Which of the following can best describe Xintong?

A．Humorous and positive.	B．Caring and persevering.
C．Generous and creative.	D．Reliable and independent.

3 . With ADD (注意缺陷障碍), I could look straight into your eyes and not hear a word you’re saying. I could _________ to be listening to you but my mind was somewhere miles away.

In middle school, I took Language Arts with Mrs. Smith. That first day, she told us her rules. Then I knew I had better “_________” myself. So I told her I might need to take home some reading assignments because my _________ is better in a quiet setting and asked her if I could use my word processor at home to do written assignments because my “fine motor skill (精细动作技能)” problems made my _________ look messy. However, she refused, saying it was _________ for my classmates. The result was that each paper came back with Mrs. Smith’s flaming red X’s.

One day, again I asked her for _________ to complete the written assignment at home. But she still refused my _________. Therefore, to prove to her, or rather to myself, that I could do the work under the right conditions, I took the assignment home __________

That night, the story, which had seemed so _________ in class, became quite clear to me in the __________ of my room. It was about Louis Braille, a __________ boy. During his time, society prevented the blind having much of an education, but Louis Braille “defended” himself. He developed a reading system of raised dots for the blind, __________ him to read like his peers.   I was like Louis in my class. I was made to learn like the other students.

I used my word processor to set down my thoughts and explain myself __________Louis and many other famous people different in their learning styles and abilities, hoping Mrs. Smith would finally understand me.

As Mrs. Smith handed my paper back, I found an A instead of her usual X. Below were her __________ red penned words, “See what you can do when you __________ yourself?”

1.

A．pretend

B．appear

C．happen

D．deserve

2.

A．defend

B．examine

C．adjust

D．delight

3.

A．feeling

B．limitation

C．energy

D．concentration

4.

A．writing

B．handwriting

C．listening

D．reading

5.

A．unfair

B．great

C．impossible

D．remarkable

6.

A．cooperation

B．interaction

C．permission

D．forgiveness

7.

A．suggestion

B．care

C．offer

D．request

8.

A．openly

B．secretly

C．gently

D．luckily

9.

A．confusing

B．relaxing

C．amusing

D．frightening

10.

A．brightness

B．tidiness

C．quietness

D．beauty

11.

A．selfish

B．blind

C．deaf

D．kind

12.

A．enabling

B．assigning

C．forcing

D．forbidding

13.

A．because of

B．in honor of

C．in terms of

D．in spite of

14.

A．casually

B．wildly

C．messily

D．neatly

15.

A．respect

B．encourage

C．apply

D．cheat