Helen was not someone who gave up easily. Soon she began to explore the world by using her other senses. She followed her mother wherever she went, hangin g onto her skirts. She touched and smelled everything she came across. She copied their actions and was soon able to do certain jobs by herself, like milking the cows. She even learned to recognize people by feeling their faces or their clothes. She could also tell where she was in the garden by the smell of the different plants and the feel of the ground under her feet.

When she was seven, she invented over 60 different signs which she could talk to her family. For example, if she wanted some bread, she would pretend to cut a piece and put some butter on it. If she wanted some ice cream, she put her arms around herself and pretended to shiver.

Helen soon learned to read and write in Braille. She also learned to read people’s lips by pressing her finger-tips against them and feeling the movement. She also learned to speak, a major achievement for someone who could not hear at all.

He len graduated with honors from a college in 1904. While she was still in the college, she wrote “The Story of My Life”. This was an immediate success and she made enough money to buy a house.

She gave lecture after lecture all over her country. Many people wrote books, made several plays and films about her life. She became so famous that some people invited her to go abroad and many foreign university gave her a lot of honors. In 1932 she became a vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom.

1.From the passage, we can learn that Helen________.

A. was very lazy when she was a child

B. could do everything easily as the usual people

C. couldn’t see with her eyes, so she had to explore the world with other senses

D. was so shy that she followed her mother wherever she went

2.She even learned to know some people by______ their faces or their clothes.

A. remembering B. learning

C. feeling D. writing

3.Helen could do the following things except________.

A. milk the cow

B. want some bread by her ways

C. want ice cream by putting her arm around herself and pretended to shiver

D. drive cars by herself

4.The Chinese meaning of the underlined word “achievement” is_______.

A.成就 B.运动 C.利益 D.原因

5.The best title of the passage is________.

A. A Shy Girl B. Helen—A Brave Girl

C. The Story of My Life D. Explore the World

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“I’m really thankful to our government, for it provides us with such a good training program. The training greatly helps us live ______ . I will certainly study hard and learn the skills. Then I can help with my family difficulties and do good to other people.” a learner on the job training program said, feeling ______ .

The learner’s grandfather is nearly 80 years old, and his mother is ______ in bed. So his father, who is a farmer, is the main ______ of the family. The family is ______ . The learner finished high school. The job training program helps him learn skills that he’ll ______ in the work place.

The story makes me think of another ______ . It goes like this: Long ago there was a man who liked fishing very much, and was ______ to catch lots of fish every day. The man was kind, so he always ______ his fish with his neighbours who did not know how to fish. One day, he thought that it would be ______ if he told them how to fish. So he called his neighbours together and showed them ______ to fish. Everybody was very happy that they could ______the fish they themselves caught.

At present, there are still a lot of poor people in the world. But it’s not good if we give only ______to them. ______ , we should give them a chance to learn new skills. So, a training is very important to people in need, and they will learn the ability to ______ money. People can learn a lot of useful things in the training program and what they learn can help them on the way to find jobs.

1.A. well B. good C. fine D. nice

2.A. surprised B. excited C. bored D. interested

3.A. ill B. alone C. silent D. dangerous

4.A. problem B. example C. relative D. support

5.A. poor B. usual C. noisy D. careful

6.A. repeat B. forget C. need D. test

7.A. story B. learner C. family D. program

8.A. afraid B. tiny C. sorry D. able

9.A. shared B. cooked C. exchanged D. weighed

10.A. easy B. great C. useless D. crazy

11.A. what B. where C. how D. who

12.A. feed B. save C. touch D. eat

13.A. time B. fish C. food D. toys

14.A. Next B. Instead C. Luckily D. Especially

15.A. pay B. give C. use D. make

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