In 1970, at the age of 35, my father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. There was not much      done at that time and my father had to rely on the medication and treatment that were      at that time. But one thing was      , my father was not a quitter. He was a teacher who       children with special educational needs in Chicago Public High School. Every day we would hear      about “his kids”. These “kids” did not usually      my sister and I.
One day, my father arrived at his school and walked up the     for his first period. He was having a very       day because the disease was really taking everything out of him. He       once and bruised (擦伤) his knee but he still kept going.        did he know that someone was watching.
As the day      his steps began to get a little lighter. At the end of the day, he was about to leave      a young girl entered his office. He had met her in the hallway but she was not one of his      . He asked what he could do for her and she said, “I just wanted to thank you for     my life.”
He looked at her and couldn’t       what he had done. She then went on      . “When I got up this morning, I felt as if I was at the end of my      and ready to kill myself. But when I saw you trying to go up the stairs and then you fell, I felt    and the feeling of sadness just kept getting     . And now you are walking as      as ever. It’s really true that everything will get better as the days go on.”

A．information B．research C．knowledge D．experience

A．favorable B．believable C．reasonable D．available

A．obvious B．special C．natural D．strange

A．abandoned B．followed C．taught D．attended

A．stories B．jokes C．songs D．humors

A．connect B．change C．mean D．defeat

A．mountains B．stairs C．ladders D．streets

A．normal B．pleasant C．simple D．difficult

A．fell B．stood C．happened D．appeared

A．Few B．Little C．Seldom D．Never

A．arrived B．progressed C．broke D．stopped

A．until B．before C．when D．while

A．students B．friends C．teachers D．workers

A．losing B．giving C．passing D．saving

A．write down B．figure out C．cut off D．put up

A．responding B．admitting C．explaining D．complaining

A．rope B．wall C．road D．work

A．sorry B．bad C．lucky D．proud

A．lower B．weaker C．higher D．stronger

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