初三英语阅读组合训练(六)

初三英语阅读组合训练（六）

On a Saturday morning, my left arm went numb(麻木的), and I felt dizzy. I was taken to hospital. After a quick 41 , the doctor said I had a stroke. As waves of paralysis(瘫痪) came over me, I slowly lost 42 of my body. I was just 50 and I c ouldn’t believe it.

After two operations, I was transferred to the Recovery Center（恢复中心）. Though I had lost the use of my 43 arm and leg and couldn’t see out of my left eye, the only thought on my mind was to return to my job. But in fact I needed to relearn how to 44 and see first and this just made me feel like it was 45 to become well again.

A few days after my first discouraging physical therapy(治疗) session, my mother came into my room with a neatly-typed 46 written by a nine-year-old boy named Jackson. He told me about the stroke he’d had only a year earlier. He, too, had been paralyzed on his left side. But, beyond telling me what he had lost, Jackson shared what I would 47 . “Do not give up on yourself. All the hard work is worth it.” he wrote.

And the advice kept on coming. He told me to 48 the therapy on the hospital’s “grown-up” floor, where “they make you work hard and you get lots of things back fast.” Here I was, a grown man and a senator(参议员) of Illinois, getting 49 from a young boy I had 50 met.

After a few weeks of writing letters to each other, I arranged for us to meet. He seemed 51 at first, but the embarrassing situation quickly melted away. Jackson showed me how he could run, and I immediately felt encouraged. One thing I particularly 52 was the energy and dignity radiating from him.

As for my recovery, it 53 just as Jackson said it would. After a year of intense physical therapy, I climbed to the top of the Capitol and returned to work. With every step I took, I thought of Jackson and his courage and confidence. Whenever I was tired or 54 , I thought of him, the world’s 55 boy.

41. A. decision B. examination C. description D. discussion

42. A. hope B. sight C. memory D. control

43. A. right B. left C. single D. only

44. A. speak B. run C. stand D. climb

45. A. important B. helpful C. impossible D. cruel

46. A. book B. letter C. novel D. present

47. A. experience B. discover C. lose D. get

48. A. attend B. refuse C. end D. overcome

49. A. information B. knowledge C. advice D. success

50. A. sometimes B. seldom C. ever D. never

51. A. confident B. nervous C. upset D. serious

52. A. expected B. admired C. recalled D. believed

53. A. came B. fell C. stayed D. disappeared

54. A. discouraged B. encouraged C. lazy D. patient

55. A. kindest B. oldest C. strongest D. earliest