I was fifteen months old, a happy kid until the day I fell. It was a    31    fall. I landed on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to make it blind. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched(缝合) the eyeball together where it was    32   , leaving a big ugly scar(疤痕) in the middle of my eye. The attempt    33   , but my mother, in all of her wisdom, found another doctor who knew that if the eye were removed    34   , my face would grow up badly distorted(扭曲)，   35    my scarred, sightless, cloudy and gray eye lived on with me. As I grew, this sightless eye in so many ways    36    me.
I walked with my face looking at the    37    so that people would not see the    38    me. Yet my mother would say to me, at every turn, “Hold your head up high and    39    the world. If you hold your head up high, it will be OK, and people will see your    40    soul.” She continued this    41    whenever I was trying to hide.
Mama’s words were of great help for me to face the world    42   . As a teenager, even though I tended to look down to hide my shame, I found that sometimes when I held my head up high and let people know me, they    43    me. In high school, I was    44    both academically and socially. I was    45    elected class president. My mother’s words helped me begin to realize that by letting people look at my face, I let them    46    the intelligence and beauty behind both eyes, even if they couldn’t see it on the    47   .
Now I’m a happy wife and great mother. The message “Hold your head up high,” has been
   48    many times in my   49    home. Each of my children has felt    50    invitation, and the gift my mother gave me has lived on in another generation.

A．surprising B．sudden C．big D．bad

A．separated B．destroyed C．cut D．hurt

A．failed B．tried C．succeeded D．managed

A．quickly B．entirely C．carefully D．slowly

A．then B．if C．still D．so

A．protected B．affected C．stopped D．interrupted

A．floor B．world C．front D．people

A．shy B．eldly C．ugly D．strange

A．deal with B．see C．laugh at D．face

A．different B．beautiful C．lonely D．honest

A．sentence B．passage C．opinion D．message

A．bravely B．proudly C．simply D．fairly

A．disliked B．liked C．hated D．noticed

A．comfortable B．valuable C．successful D．special

A．nearly B．even C．hardly D．still

A．touch B．observe C．watch D．recognize

A．surface B．outing C．head D．scar

A．discussed B．heard C．talked D．written

A．brave B．peaceful C．sweet D．exciting

A．their B．my C．its D．her