“Look,it’s Baldy!” A boy shouted in my direction across the playground. Even though I was used to regular insults (侮辱) because of the ______ on my head, it was ______ horrible to hear. I sighed as I headed back to the class.
When I was just 20 months old, I suffered serious _____ after a bowl full of hot oil fell on my head. I was ______ to hospital and had to stay there for weeks while the doctors ______ to save my life. “Holly’s very ______ to be alive,’”they told Mum and Dad. “But she’ll be ______ with scars on her head, and of course her hair won’t grow there. ”
As a child,I cared much about my scars,so I ______ wore a scarf to cover them up when I left home. ____ I didn’t,people would call me horrible names like Baldy. Although my friends were always comforting me, they never _____understood how it felt.
Then through the hospital I was ____ to a children’s burns camp, where children like me can get any help. There, I ____ 14-year-old Stephanie, whose burns are a lot more serious than mine. But she is so ____ that she never lets anyone put her down.“You shouldn’t _____ what people say about what you look like because we're not different from anyone else, Holly,” she ____ me. “And you don’t need to wear a scarf because you look great _____ it! ” For the first time in my life I could speak to someone who’d been through something _____ .So weeks later, at my 13th birthday party, ____ by her bravery, I gave up my scarf and showed off my scars. It felt amazing not having to ______ away behind my scarf.
Now,I am____ of what I look like and much happier, because I have realized it is your personality(个性) that decides who you truly are.
1.A.hat B.scarf C.scars D.cuts
2.A.still B.just C.never D.seldom
3.A.hunger B.cold C.defeats D.burns
4.A.rushed B.led C.invited D.forced
5.A.learned B.fought C.returned D.decided
6.A.happy B.lucky C.lonely D.poor
7.A.pressed B.occupied C.left D.painted
8.A.possibly B.usually C.finally D.nearly
9.A.Although B.Since C.If D.Before
10.A.correctly B.roughly C.easily D.really
11.A.promoted B.introduced C.reported D.carried
12.A.met B.recognized C.remembered D.caught
13.A.honest B.strong C.active D.young
14.A.write down B.agree with C.pass on D.listen to
15.A.promised B.encouraged C.ordered D.calmed
16.A.in B.for C.without D.beyond
17.A.similar B.strange C.hard D.important
18.A.allowed B.required C.guided D.inspired
19.A.hide B.give C.keep D.put
20.A.sick B.aware C.tired D.proud
----Are you going to take part in the speech contest?
----_______ It’s too good an opportunity to miss.
A.No problem! B.That’s for sure
C.Why me? D.Why bother?
—Are you content with the result of the exam?
—Not a little. I can’t have ______ one.
A.a worse B.a better C.the worse D.the better
I knew a lot about the subject already, but her talk was interesting _____
A.besides B.otherwise C.nevertheless D.moreover
The writer always carries a notebook along with him, _____he is seized by sudden inspiration.
A.even though B.the moment C.in case D.now that
_____ it many times, I still can’t make Tom understand what I said.
A.Explained B.Having explained
C.To explain D.Having been explained
