第二节 语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
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I had an unusual conversation with a woman about physical limitations. Nancy suffered 31 a serious disease and she could no longer walk. She spent her 32 (wake) hours in a wheelchair.
“I’m not ‘confined (限制)’ to a wheelchair,” she insisted one day. “It doesn’t confine me but 33 (set) me free.”
She asked me, “Do you want to know 34 reason for living?”
“What is it?” I wondered.
“To liberate people. To set them free. Before I got my wheelchair,” she explained, “I had trouble getting around. Now I can go places! However I can free people, I want to do 35 .”
“People speak of being ‘shut in,’” she continued. “People 36 are confined to a room or a house or a bed are not ‘shut in.’ They’re ‘shut out’ – shut out of activities and shut out of people’s lives. So my aim is to liberate people, to set them free, however I can.”
Because of her disease, Nancy now helps people find ways of gaining more physical 37 (free).
Listen to these words from Darwin P. Kingsley: “You have powers you never dreamed 38 . You can do things you never thought you 39 do. There are no limitations in 40 you can do except the limitations of your own mind.”