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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
In 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce that she nearly died. She________ but the fever left its mark一she could no longer see and ________. Because she could not hear,she also found it very ________ to speak.
So how did this child,blinded and deafened at 19 months old,grow up to ________a world-famous author and public speaker?
The fever cut her ________ from the outside world, depriving (剥夺)her of sight and sound. It was ________ she had been thrown into a dark prison room from which there could be no ________ .
Luckily Helen was not someone who ________ easily. Soon she began to explore the world by using her other ________. She followed her mother wherever she went, ________onto her skirts. She touched and smelled everything she came across. She 51 their actions and was soon able to do certain jobs herself,like milking the________or kneading dough (揉面).She even learnt to ________people by feeling their faces or their clothes. She could also ________ where she was in the garden by the smell of the different plants and the ________ of the ground under her feet.
By the age of 7 she had invented over 60 different ________ by which she could talk to her family. If she wanted bread for example,she would pretend to ________ a loaf and butter into slices (片).If she wanted ice cream, she ________herself with her arms and pretended to shake.
Helen was unusual in that she was extremely ________ and also very sensitive. By her own ________ she had managed to make some sense of an alien and confusing world. But even so she had limitations.
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