1 . When she was just 17 years old, Jerry crashed into the back of a truck that was waiting to turn in a left turn lane. The crash is a life-changing one for her. Because of the crash, she’s blind in one eye, lost her sense of smell, lost some of her hearing, lost the ability to create tears, and she cannot fall asleep naturally.
“Initially, I thought I would not be defeated but clearly I was completely wrong. Apart from the medical problems, the hardest part about my life after the car accident was the fact that I was alone.” Jerry said, “Everyone was away at college, I wasn’t. I couldn’t drive, couldn’t go to college. My friends who used to hang around with me were there for me at first, but after a while they stopped coming by.”
“I looked up on her Facebook page, and she said on there: Can anybody please hang out with me today? I don’t have any friends.” recalled Jerry’ s mother, Ketty.
In time, Jerry and her mother teamed up with the US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to make a video. They want to get the point across that texting while driving can have life-transforming consequences.
In the video Jerry appealed to drivers not to text while driving. She admitted she was checking and sending messages via her phone when she crashed her car into the back of the truck.
“Don’t text your loved ones when you know they’re driving,” said Jerry’s mother. “It can change their lives forever.”
“If you get a text, don’t look at it,” Jerry said. “It’s not worth it.”
1. What happened to Jerry when she was 17 years old?
| A．She lost all her friends. |
| B．She couldn’t cry naturally. |
| C．She suffered a traffic accident. |
| D．She was waiting to turn left. |
2. What was Jerry’s hardest part in her life after 17?
| A．Having no chance to attend college. |
| B．Having no ability to live on. |
| C．Having unsolved medical problems. |
| D．Being alone without friends around her. |
3. Why did Jerry regret texting while driving?
| A．Because it caused her a life-changing result. |
| B．Because she couldn’t see the message clearly. |
| C．Because she was afraid to miss the message. |
| D．Because she couldn’t send the message quickly. |
4. The purpose of making the video was to
.
| A．warn people not to use phones while driving |
| B．call on people to help accident victims |
| C．ask teens to be careful while riding |
| D．expose the truth of the car crash |
