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The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old mal stove（火爐）．A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the____and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates got there One morning they____to find the schoolhouse burning. They dragged（拖）the little boy out of the building more dead than alive. Then he was____taken to a nearby county hospital.

The doctor told the boy's mother that____the lower part of his body was seriously burnt, he couldn't use his legs anymore. However, the____boy made up his mind that he would walk. Unluckily his thin legs____hung there, all but lifeless.

Finally he returned home from the____．Every day his mother would press his little legs, but there was no feeling, no control,____．Yet his determination that he would walk was as____as ever.

When he wasn't in bed, he would sit in a wheelchair. One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air. This day, instead of sitting there, he____himself from the chair and pulled himself across the grass，dragging his____behind him.

He worked his way to the white fence（柵欄）around the yard. With great effort, he raised himself up on the fence. Then, he began dragging himself along the fence,____that he would walk. He started to do this every day. There was nothing he____more than to develop life in those legs.

In the end，through his determination he did____．He began to walk to school，then to run to school，to run____the joy of running. Later in college he made the running team.

Still later in Madison Square Garden this determined young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the world's fastest mile!

1.A. fire B. class C. game D. story

2.A. left B. waited C. arrived D. hid

3.A. clearly B. quickly C. suddenly D. nearly

4.A. when B. unless C. before D. because

5.A. honest B. brave C. worried D. calm

6.A. just B. also C. once D. ever

7.A. school B. yard C. hospital D. square

8.A. everything B. anything C. something D. nothing

9.A. strong B. simple C. strange D. similar

10.A. helped B. threw C. picked D. enjoyed

11.A. arms B. chair C. legs D. mother

12.A. believing B. doubting C. promising D. suggesting

13.A. afforded B. hated C. forgot D. wanted

14.A. set off B. get back C. stand up D. run away

15.A. to B. for C. from D. without

1.A 2.C 3.B 4.D 5.B 6.A 7.C 8.D 9.A 10.B 11.C 12.A 13.D 14.C 15.B 【解析】 試題本文講述了身殘志堅的格蘭·坎寧安的勵志故事。小時候他為學校生火爐時，燒著了學校的房屋，同時自己也得了嚴重的殘疾。后來他堅持自己推輪椅、慢慢地站起來、走路、跑步...

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