My husband and I are both musicians. I took it  36  granted that one day our daughter Holly would learn to play an instrument.
In 2000 Holly fell  37  and the doctor said she may have been left   38   deaf. “She won’t be able to hear music in any shape or form,” said the doctor. It was a great   39  .
In 2001, her right ear was fitted with a cochlear implant --- electronic equipment that provides a sense of    40   for people who are completely deaf. Seven years later, another was fitted in her    41   ear. The doctors played us a model of what music would sound like to Holly --- I was horrified   42  it was just white noise.
“Holly will hear music,” I   43   saying to myself. I tried to put what had gone wrong right, so we constantly   44  words and sounds to her. She has been having lessons since she was seven . she’s   45  all the time. I’m always surprised by just how much better she does.
When she   46  a national piano competition, the adjudicator   47  Holly for appearing to listen to the sounds she was making --- her whole body, he said to us, was   48  in the process of making music.
I   49  that the model we originally heard of how music sounds with a cochlear implant isn’t   50  holly hears it. The brain is complex and adapts to many   51  ;in some way, Holly has made   52  of it all. She loves life. She doesn’t think about what happened to her and says   53  , “I don’t want to talk about bad things. Let’s talk about good things.”
I was determined that her life would not be   54  by a miserable event, but never imagined that she could   55  what she has. I can only describe this as a miracle.
小題1:
A．a(chǎn)sB．likeC．forD．with
小題2:
A．a(chǎn)sleepB．illC．silentD．short
小題3:
A．partlyB．nearlyC．deeplyD．totally
小題4:
A．a(chǎn)ccidentB．diseaseC．shockD．surprise
小題5:
A．soundB．noiseC．musicD．voice
小題6:
A．rightB．leftC．deafD．good
小題7:
A．a(chǎn)lthoughB．unlessC．becauseD．while
小題8:
A．a(chǎn)voidedB．rememberedC．imaginedD．kept
小題9:
A．repeatedB．reflectedC．reactedD．responded
小題10:
A．sufferingB．cryingC．workingD．improving
小題11:
A．enteredB．quittedC．lostD．visited
小題12:
A．a(chǎn)skedB．caredC．praisedD．thanked
小題13:
A．consideredB．containedC．invitedD．involved
小題14:
A．remindB．believeC．a(chǎn)dviseD．forget
小題15:
A．whenB．howC．whetherD．why
小題16:
A．statesB．positionsC．placesD．situations
小題17:
A．senseB．choiceC．useD．fun
小題18:
A．exactlyB．finallyC．simplyD．generally
小題19:
A．influencedB．decidedC．remarkedD．introduced
小題20:
A．a(chǎn)chieveB．chooseC．takeD．expect

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A．he didn’t have enough money for foodB．he was thirsty only
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C．regretted they hadn’t done anything D．were indifferent
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A．not surviveB．have to attack people
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