“I have a lot more strength and am ready to move forward with a normal life,”Lauren says,five years after the Sept.11 Attacks.
That day as she 36 the building,a fireball raced down the elevator and blasted her back out, 37 more than 82% of her body.Doctors gave her just a 15% chance of surviving. 38 25 surgeries, including skin grafts(移植)and scar revisions to her 39 ,face,and hands,she finished her five-year 40 last month.Now, she has to learn how to sit,walk and drink from a cup.Susan,one of her doctors,says,“Lauren was 41 badly burned that it's a miracle she 42 has hands at all.Still,she 43 you in the eye and says,‘I don't have bad days.’”
Recently,Tyler,Lauren's son,has made his own 44 of what his mom went through that 45 day.He watched his parents appear on the Today Show and asked his mother why she ever went into the building“I 46 you hadn't been hurt,Mommy,”he said.
Lauren and her husband work 47 to give the little boy the right 48 ,“We tell him some bad guys did a bad thing,and that's how Mommy was 49 ,”says Lauren.They 50 Tyler reassurances(肯定)that it's not going to happen to him,and that his parents will protect him no matter what happens.
They're enjoying 51 they have.It's the unplanned pleasures they truly 52 .Tyler has gotten into playacting, and he'll suddenly 53 a script(剧本).“You'll be the princess.” he'll say to Lauren,“and I'll be the knight(骑士).My dog can be the dragon.”
Lauren 54 as she tells the story.“Life doesn't get 55 better.”she says.
36.A reached | B.entered | C.left | D.saw |
37.A.burning | B.killing | C .striking | D.ruining |
38.A.Within | B.During | C.After | D.Before |
39.A.body | B.head | C.eyes | D.back |
40.A.receptions | B.treatments | C.observations | D.movements |
41.A.such | B.too | C.so | D.as |
42.A.also | B.therefore | C.otherwise | D.even |
43.A.looks | B.scans | C.greets | D.watches |
44.A.invention | B.discovery | C.invitation | D.imagination |
45.A.wonderful | B.pitiful | C.terrible | D.desirable |
46.A.think | B.expect | C.wish | D.hope |
47.A.hard | B.once | C.only | D.again |
48.A.news | B.sentences | C.contents | D.messages |
49.A.tricked | B.injured | C.fooled | D.laughed at |
50.A.offer | B.supply | C.afford | D.equip |
51.A.that | B.which | C.when | D.what |
52.A.choose | B.demand | C.intend | D.value |
53.A.suggest | B.write | C.read | D.find |
54.A.screams | B.cries | C.smiles | D.yells |
55.A.very | B.any | C.quite | D.fairly |