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I was loading my truck to go to the flea market when a hook(钩子) on one of the bungees bent and
broke back into my left eye. The1was like a hot sword had been struck through my head. I fell down
on my hands and knees, and2I saw blood dripping onto the ground, I knew it was3 .
They4me to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, where there's a special eye center. The5there
operated on me several times but couldn't save my eye. When they told me the news, I wanted to6 .
Even after I got my prosthetic eye (义眼), I couldn't7off the depression. To make matters worse,
I lost my job as a transportation officer for the Tennessee Department of Children's Services because of
8about my driving ability. But one morning, I woke up and the TV was9 , and there was a
16-year-old girl. She had been10burned on her face, hands, and legs and was learning to walk again.
She11a big smile and seemed to look right at me and said, 'You can't ever give up. ' At that moment,
I thought, this is just a (n)12 . Get over it. And I13 .
It's been almost 12 years since my14 , and there isn't anything I can't do now that I used to do.
Although I didn't get my15job back, I could do something else to16a happy life.
I read a17once where a man was feeling bad because he had no18, until he met a man who
had no feet.No matter how destroying your problem is,19there's always someone somewhere
who's worse off.20having just one eye, I see things a lot more clearly now.
( )1. A.fight
( )2. A.before
( )3. A.bad
( )4. A.forced
( )5. A.doctors
( )6. A.rise
( )7. A.set
( )8. A.possibilities
( )9. A.off
( )10. A.badly
( )11. A.developed
( )12. A.ear
( )13. A.worked
( )14. A.accident
( )15. A.new
( )16. A.build
( )17. A.humor
( )18. A.clothes
( )19. A.remember
( )20. A.ThroughB.pain
B.though
B.good
B.passed
B.workers
B.stay
B.shake
B.decisions
B.up
B.carefully
B.covered
B.eye
B.stopped
B.experiment
B.hard
B.lead
B.joke
B.jackets
B.forget
B.DespiteC.injury
C.because
C.strange
C.took
C.teachers
C.leave
C.turn
C.chances
C.on
C.finally
C.enjoyed
C.arm
C.did
C.argument
C.easy
C.search
C.poem
C.shoes
C.promise
C.WithoutD.wound
D.when
D.lucky
D.gave
D.soldiers
D.die
D.leave
D.concerns
D.down
D.hardly