Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a debilitating (衰弱的) disease involving her nervous system. She was unable to walk and her movement was (62) in other ways as well. The doctors did not hold (63) much hope of her ever recovering from this illness. They () she’d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. They said that few, if (65) , were able to come back to (66) after contracting this disease. The little girl was fearless. There, lying in her hospital bed, she would (67) to anyone who’d listen that she was (68) going to be walking again someday.
She was (69) to a specialized rehabilitation(复原) hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. (70) therapies could be applied to her case were used. The doctors were charmed by her undefeatable (71) . They taught her about imaging about seeing herself walking. (72) it would do nothing else, it (73) at least give her hope and something positive to do in the long waking hours (74) her bed. Angela would work as hard as possible in physical therapy, in whirlpools (漩涡) and in exercise sessions. But she worked faithfully (75) her imaging, visualizing herself moving, moving, moving !
One day, as she was staining with all her (76) to imagine her legs moving again, it seemed as though a miracle (77) :The bed moved! It began to move around the room! She screamed out, "Look what I’m doing! Look! Look! I can do it! I moved, I moved !"
Of course, at this (78) moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming, too ,and running for (79) . People were screaming, equipment was falling and glass was breaking. You see, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake. But don’t tell that to Angela. She’s (80) that she did it. And now only a few years later, she’s back in school. You see, anyone who can (81) the earth between San Francisco and Oakland can conquer a piddling (微不足道的) little disease, can’t they