Question

The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old mal stove（火炉）．A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates got there One morning they to find the schoolhouse burning. They dragged（拖）the little boy out of the building more dead than alive. Then he was taken to a nearby county hospital.

The doctor told the boy's mother that the lower part of his body was seriously burnt, he couldn't use his legs anymore. However, the boy made up his mind that he would walk. Unluckily his thin legs hung there, all but lifeless.

Finally he returned home from the ．Every day his mother would press his little legs, but there was no feeling, no control, ．Yet his determination that he would walk was as as ever.

When he wasn't in bed, he would sit in a wheelchair. One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air. This day, instead of sitting there, he himself from the chair and pulled himself across the grass，dragging his behind him.

He worked his way to the white fence（栅栏）around the yard. With great effort, he raised himself up on the fence. Then, he began dragging himself along the fence, that he would walk. He started to do this every day. There was nothing he more than to develop life in those legs.

In the end，through his determination he did ．He began to walk to school，then to run to school，to run the joy of running. Later in college he made the running team.

Still later in Madison Square Garden this determined young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the world's fastest mile!

1.A. fire B. class C. game D. story

2.A. left B. waited C. arrived D. hid

3.A. clearly B. quickly C. suddenly D. nearly

4.A. when B. unless C. before D. because

5.A. honest B. brave C. worried D. calm

6.A. just B. also C. once D. ever

7.A. school B. yard C. hospital D. square

8.A. everything B. anything C. something D. nothing

9.A. strong B. simple C. strange D. similar

10.A. helped B. threw C. picked D. enjoyed

11.A. arms B. chair C. legs D. mother

12.A. believing B. doubting C. promising D. suggesting

13.A. afforded B. hated C. forgot D. wanted

14.A. set off B. get back C. stand up D. run away

15.A. to B. for C. from D. without

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