One October morning, the sky was clear and the sun was shining. Bethany Hamilton decided to go 5 with some friends in Hawaii.

As one of the best teenage surfers in the world, the 13-year-old American girl was planning to become a 6 surfer. Cheerfully, she was lying on her surf?board, waiting for the next big wave. Suddenly, a big shark 7 her left arm and shook her backwards and forwards. Bethany held onto her board and the shark eventually swam away—but it took her 8 away with it. 9 , it attacked only once. It happened so fast that she didn't even 10 .

As Bethany started to swim back to the beach with one arm, her friends thought she was joking. But to her horror, they saw the  11  and rushed to help.

Having lost almost  half the  blood, Bethany's 12   was a miracle(奇迹),according to doctors. But she wanted to do  13 survival.

"It never crossed my mind that I might never get on a surfboard again," she recalled later.  " I wondered whether I would actually be   14   to do it or not. But 15   I left hospital, I had decided that I was going to surf.

With the support of her family, Bethany 16 to get back on her board only one month after the attack. Her dad fixed a handle on her surfboard to help her pad-dle (划水)through and into waves.

When she returned to surfing at a competition in Hawaii, Bethany was 17 in dangerous waves that broke her surfboard. As a result, she gave away her re?maining boards and quit. She tried using an artificial arm, but it turned out to be  18   while surfing.

After 19 in Thailand in the 2004 earthquake and helping homeless survivors who had lost every?thing, Bethany 20 her decisions to give up the sport she loved and 21 to try professional surfing again. Less than a year after the accident, she won first place in a surfing competition in Hawaii. And all her struggles and efforts 22 when she won a world championship years later.

She also received several 23 , including a spe?cial award for courage at the MTV Teen Choice Awards in 2004 and the Woman of the Year award from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 2006. Her 24 , true story gained wider attention with the release(发行)of the film Soul Surfer.

5.    A.   swimming     B. boating

C.  sailing     D. surfing

6.    A.  professional    B. free

C.    dream     D.    special

7.    A.    touched   B.    struck

C.    bit   D.    took

8.    A.    arm  B.    surfboard

C.    friend      D.    hand

9.    A.    Strangely B.    Especially

C.    Surprisingly    D.    Fortunately

10.   A.    think       B.    fight

C.    scream    D.    escape

11.   A.    shark       B.    blood

C.    attack      D,    scene

12.   A.    survival   B.    courage

C.    accident   D.    injury

13.   A.    rather than      B.    more than

C.    better than      D.    other than

14.   A.   suitable  B. lucky

C.  strong      D. able

15.   A.  while      B. after

C.   before    D. until

16.   A.  hoped      B. managed

C.  agreed     D. offered

17.   A.  caught     B. noticed

C.  lost  D. driven

18.   A.   helpful  B. useless

C.  wonderful       D. meaningless

19.   A.   training B. settling

C.   travelling      D. volunteering

20.   A.   reconsidered  B. remembered

C.  recognized      D, recalled

21.   A.  refused    B. started

C.  decided    D. continued

22.   A.  paid out   B.  paid for

C.   paid in          D.   paid off

23.   A.  gifts B. honours

C.   rewards  D. praises

24.   A.   exciting B. dangerous

C.  inspiring  D. adventurous

A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than to read it out of a book, and? if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad think?ing. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy-stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of a fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There arc also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that gi?ants ,witches, two-headed dragons? magic carpets, etc. do not exist and that , instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar(奇异的)that I do not know how to argue with them. If their cases were sound* the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a tele?phone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

5.    The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is .

A.    repeated without any change

B.    treated as a joke

C.    set in the present

D,  made some changes by the parent

6.    The advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it .

A.    develops their power of memory

B.    makes them less fearful

C.    makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D.    encourages them not to have strange beliefs

7.    The author's mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that .

A.    fairy stories are still being made up

B.    there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales

C.    people try to modernize old fairy stories

D.    there is more concern for children's fears nowa?days

8.    One of the reasons why some people are not in fa-vour of fairy tales is that A.    they are full of imagination

B.    they make teachers of history difficult to teach

C.    they are not interesting

D.    they just make up the stories which are far from the truth

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