"Look,it's Baldy!” A boy shouted in my direction across the playground. Even though I was used to regular insults (侮辱) because of the 1        on my head,it was 2        horrible to hear. I sighed as I headed back to the class.

When I was just 20 months old,I suffered from serious 3        after a bowl full of hot oil fell on my head. I was 4        to a hospital and had to stay there for weeks while the doctors 5        to save my life. "Holly's very 6        to be alive," they told Mum and Dad. "But she'll be 7        with scars on her head,and of course her hair won't grow there.”

As a child,I cared much about my scars,so I 8        wore a scarf to cover them up when I left home. 9       I didn't,people would call me horrible names like Baldy. Although my friends were always comforting me,they never 10        under?stood how it felt.

  Then through the hospital I was 11        to a children's burns camp,where children like me could get any help. There,I 12       14-year-old Stephanie,whose burns were a lot more serious than mine. But she was so 13        that she never let anyone put her down. "You shouldn't 14        what people say about what you look like because we're not different from anyone else,Holly," she 15        me. "And you don't need to wear a scarf because you look great 16        it!" For the first time in my life I could speak to someone who'd been through something 17       . So weeks later,at my 13th birthday party,18        by her bravery,I gave up my scarf and showed off my scars. It felt amazing not having to 19       away behind my scarf! e Now,I am 20        of what I look like and much happier,because I have real?ized it is your personality (个性) that decides who you truly are.

1. A. hat   B. scarf   C. scars   D. cuts

2. A. still   B. just   C. never   D. seldom

3. A. hunger   B. cold   C. defeats   D. burns

4. A. rushed   B. led   C. invited   D. forced

5. A. learned   B. fought   C. returned   D. decided

6. A. happy   B. lucky   C. lonely   D. poor

7. A. pressed   B. occupied   C. left   D. painted

8. A. possibly   B. usually   C. finally   D. nearly

9. A. Although   B. Since   C. If   D. Before 

10.A. correctly   B. roughly   C. easily   D. really 

11. A. promoted   B. introduced   C. reported   D. carried 

12.A. met   B. recognized   C. remembered   D. caught 

13.A. honest   B. strong   C. active   D. young 

14.A. write down   B. agree with   C. pass on   D. listen to 

15. A. promised   B. encouraged   C. ordered   D. calmed 

16.A. in   B. for   C. without   D. beyond 

17.A. similar   B. strange   C. hard   D. important 

18.A. allowed   B. required   C. guided   D. inspired 

19.A. hide   B. give   C. keep   D. put 

20.A. sick   B. aware   C. tired   D. proud

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