Helen Keller was born in America in June, 1880. was all right when she was born. when she was nineteen months old, and attack of fever her blind and deaf for the rest of her life. She became blind so that as she grew older, she did not being able to see; and she became deaf she had any idea of the importance of human speech. She in darkness and silence.

As she grew older, she, too, wanted to express her ideas and .But she understood that she was from others.

Her greatly worried. How could anyone get in touch with Helen’s mind, intelligence in darkness and silence without ? Helen was seven before a teacher was .Her name was Sullivan.

Miss Sullivan had a lot of in teaching Helen Keller. As the child could neither see nor hear,she had to use manual alphabet(手语).But Helen’s energy, intelligence and strong spirit, with Miss Sullivan’s skill and patience (耐心), all the difficulties. As Helen grew up, she became an able student, passed examinations and finally took a university degree English literature. She then all herself to helping the blind and the deaf. Her personal , together with the work she has done for others, made her one of the greatest women in modern times. She many books and The Story of My Life is a remarkable(不寻常的) one.

1.A. Something B.Nothing C.Everything D.Anything

2.A.And B.But C.Or D.So

3.A.had B.let C.gave D.left

4.A.young B.sudden C.early D.quick

5.A.mind B.remember C.remind D.seem

6.A.as B.when C.after D.before

7.A.lived B.stayed C.remained D.played

8.A.views B.opinions C.feelings D.thoughts

9.A.cut out B.cut off C.given up D.sent away

10.A.teachers B.friends C.parents D.neighbours

11.A.help B.knowledge C.sound D.speech

12.A.nearly B.likely C.totally D.quietly

13.A.brought B.appeared C.came D.found

14.A.difficulty B.ways C.work D.stories

15.A.agreed B.combined C.dealt D.corresponded

16.A.won B.beat C.overcame D.overturned

17.A.at B.in C.on D.with

18.A.devoted B.took C.set D.enjoyed

19.A.ideas B.experience C.life D.success

20.A.read B.bought C.wrote D.borrowed

Many years ago the idea of disabled people doing sport was never heard of. But when the yearly games for the disabled were started at Stoke Mandeville, England in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the situation began to change.

Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who had been driven to England in 1939 from Nazi Germany, had been asked by the British government to set up an injuries centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital near London. His ideas about treating injuries included sport for the disabled.

In the first games just two teams of injured soldiers took part. The next year 1949, five teams took part. From those beginnings, things have developed fast. Teams now come from abroad to Stoke Mandeville every year. In 1960 the first Olympics for the disabled were held in Rome, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games. Now, every four years the Olympic Games for the disabled are held, if possible, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games, although they are organized separately. In other years Games for the disabled are still held at Stoke Mandeville. In the 1984 wheelchair Olympic Games, 1064 wheelchair athletes from about 40 countries took part. Unfortunately, they were held at Stoke Mandeville and not in Los Angeles, along with the other Olympics.

The Games have been a great success in helping the progress of international friendship and understanding, and in proving that being disabled does not mean you can’t enjoy sport. One small source of disappointment for those who organize and take part in the games, however, has been the unwillingness of the International Olympic Committee to include disabled events at the Olympic Games for the able bodied. Perhaps a few more years is still needed to persuade those fortunate enough not to be disabled that their disabled fellow athletes should be included.

1. The first games for the disabled were held after Sir Ludwig Guttmann arrived in England.

A.40 years

B.21 years

C.10 years

D.9 years

2.This text tells us that Sir Ludwig Guttmann .

A. was an early organizer of the games for the able-bodied

B. was welcomed by the British government

C. was an injured soldier

D. was from England

3.From the passage, we may know that the writer is .

A. one of the organizers of the games for the disabled

B. a disabled person who once took part in the games

C. against holding the games for the disabled

D. in favour of holding the games for the disabled

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