1 . My friend Michelle is blind, but you'd never know it. She makes such good use of her other 4_______,including her “sixth sense”, that she rarely gives the impression she's _______ anything.

Michelle looks after her children pretty much like the rest of us, _______ that she doesn't push too hard on them,_______really benefit a lot from her relaxed attitude.She knows when to clean the house; she moves around so fast that often _______ don't realize she's blind.

I _______this the first time after my six­year­old daughter, Kayla, went to play there.When Kayla came home, she was very _______ about her day.She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects.But she was _______ excited about her finger­painting project.

“Mom, guess what？”said Kayla, all smiles “I learned how to _______ colors today! Blue and red make purple,and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle ________ with us.”

To my great ________,my child had learnt about color from a blind friend!

Then Kayla continued, “Michelle told me my ________ showed joy, pride and a sense of accomplishment. She really ________ what I was doing！”Kayla said she had never felt how good finger paints felt ________ Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.

I realized Kayla didn't know that Michelle was blind.It had just never ________ in conversation.

When I told her, she was ________ for a moment. At first, she didn't believe me. “But Mommy, Michelle knew exactly what was in my picture！”Kayla ________ . And I knew my child was ________ because Michelle had listened to Kayla describe her artwork.Michelle had also heard Kayla's ________ in her work.

We were silent for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did see my picture. She just used my __________”

Indeed, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.