I was fifteen months old, a happy, carefree kid until the day I fell.It was a bad fall.I landed on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to blind it.Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched the eyeball together where it was cut, leaving a big ugly scar in the middle of my eye.And as I grew, this sightless eye in so many ways controlled me.

       Yet Mama would say to me, at every turn, "Hold your head up high and face the world." It became a litany that I relied on.She had started when I was young.She would hold me in her arms and stroke my hair and say, "If you hold your head up high, it will be okay, and people will see your beautiful soul." She continued this message whenever I wanted to hide.

       Those words have meant different things to me over the years.As a little child, I thought Mama meant; "Be careful or you will fall down or bump into something because you are not looking." As an a dolescent, even though I tended to look down to hide my shame, I found that sometimes when I held my head up high and let people know me, they lilted me.My mama's words helped me begin to realize that by letting people look at my face, I let them recognize the intelligence and beauty behind both eyes even if they couldn't see it on the surface.

       In high school I was successful both academically and socially.I was even elected class president, but on the inside I still felt like a freak.Ail I really wanted was to look like everyone else.When things got really bad, I would cry to my mama and she would look at me with loving eyes and say, "Hold your head up high and face the world.Let them see the beauty that is inside."

       When I met the man who became my partner for life, we looked each other straight in the eye, and he told me I was beautiful inside and out.He meant it.My mama's love and encouragement were the spark that gave me the confidence to overcome my own doubt.I had faced adversity, encountered my problems head on, and learned not only to appreciate myself but to have deep compassion for others.

       "Hold your head up high," has been heard many times in my home.Each of my children has felt its invitation.The gift my mama gave me lives on in another generation.

How did the writer have her eyes hurt?

       A.She was attacked by a glass rabbit.          B.Her eyes were hurt by accident.

       C.The doctor made a mistake.            D.A serious illness blinded her.

When she heard her mother told her to hold her head up high for the first time, she_____.

       A.didn't fully understand these words

       B.was greatly encouraged and moved

       C.was puzzled by these words

       D.was surprised by these words

Why did the writer still feel unhappy when she was successful both academically and socially?

       A.Because she was not satisfied with what she has.

       B.Because she thought she could have done better.

       C.Because she wanted to live a normal life.

       D.Because she really wanted to be different.

What is the point of the story?

       A.A mother's love for a daughter is a treasure.

       B.One should not be controlled by others.

       C.The real beauty is inside out.

       D.Where there is a will.there is a way.

A migraine headache(偏头疼) can cause disabling pain.People may not feel back to normal for hours or even for days.

       Migraine headaches are most common among young adults and middle-aged people.In the United States, about eighteen percent of women and six percent of men report having migraines.

       People who suffer from migraines can find that different “triggers” in different people may get a headache started.Stress can act as a trigger.

       Many migraine sufferers say hot weather and low barometric pressure(气压) can act as triggers, but researchers say they did not have much scientific evidence of that—until now.

       In a new study, a team examined the medical records of seven thousand hospital patients.The patients had visited the emergency room at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, because of a headache.More than two thousand of them had been found to have a migraine.

       The team then compared those records to weather conditions in the twenty-four hours before the hospital visits.For every increase of five degrees Celsius in air temperature, the patients had a seven and one-half percent higher risk of migraine.Decreases in barometric pressure two to three days before the visit also appeared to cause headaches.

       A separate study has found that age, gender and where a person has extra body fat may affect the risk of migraine.It found that overweight people between the ages of twenty and fifty-five may have a higher risk.On average, those who were larger around the middle were more likely to have migraines than those of the same age with smaller waistlines(腰围).

       Experts suggest that losing weight in the stomach area may help younger people who experience migraines, especially women.Doing exercises regularly is also helpful to reducing migraine headaches.

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● Not feel back to normal for hours or even days.

People suffering from it

Young adults and

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Hot weather→ every increase of five degrees Celsius: seven and one-half percent higher risk of migraine

          → decreases two to three days before the visit appeared to cause headaches

A separate study

         and where a person has extra body fat→ overweight people between twenty and fifty-five have a higher risk

● Lose weight in the stomach area.

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