Christina Parra brushed her cane(手杖) across the carpet at the entrance to Walgreens. She tapped her way past the shopping carts (手推車) and red lipsticks she could only _______.

Christina, a 16-year-old with two prosthetic(假的) brown eyes, had visited this store several times in _______ for this moment: She was shopping. Love songs _______ through the loudspeakers of the North Highlands, California store. Christina reached the end of Aisle (通道) 1-A and turned right, _______ her way past smooth bottles of liquid soap, toward the individual soap bars. She wanted to buy a bar of soap. A simple goal, but not _______ an easy one.

Christina was 18 months old when she was diagnosed with cancer in both her eyes. Doctors _______Christina’s left eye immediately; a few years later, they removed the right. Since then, activities other kids _______ for granted—taking a bus, _______ the street, shopping at a store—have posed(造成) plenty of _______ for her.

The teacher showed the little girl how to find her classroom by __________ her cane along a lawn’s edge. She learned to count driveways while __________ to a certain address. Yet for a long time, shopping still seemed __________. How would she ever walk __________ those vast aisles, __________with row after row of products she couldn’t see?

Finally, Christina told her teacher that she was ready to shop__________. Together, they took inventory (目錄冊(cè)) at Walgreens. Over the course of several __________, Zermeno told Christina the kinds of products each aisle held; Christina took careful __________ on her Braille computer (盲人電腦).

And __________ it was, on Monday, that her __________came to rest on the bars of soap. She felt her way down to a lower shelf, until she __________ the one she wanted.

1.A. see B. find C. imagine D. smell

2.A. search B. preparation C. praise D. favor

3.A. went B. got C. flew D. passed

4.A. forcing B. feeling C. finding D. losing

5.A. fortunately B. clearly C. necessarily D. differently

6.A. removed B. cured C. treated D. rebuilt

7.A. make B. take C. have D. get

8.A. cleaning B. building C. crossing D. wandering

9.A. challenges B. joy C. pleasure D. disasters

10.A. waving B. tapping C. touching D. moving

11.A. appearing B. turning C. pointing D. walking

12.A. scary B. uncertain C. possible D. frightened

13.A. across B. through C. over D. by

14.A. surrounded B. covered C. filled D. decorated

15.A. of her own B. on her own C. to her own D. at her own

16.A. failures B. efforts C. attempts D. visits

17.A. notice B. attention C. focus D. notes

18.A. so B. yet C. moreover D. besides

19.A. cane B. fingers C. nose D. cart

20.A. saw B. smelled C. bought D. located

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A. how people celebrate during the three-day Sahara Festival

B. what takes place at the closing ceremonies of the Sahara Festival

C. how animals race on the first and the last days of the Sahara Festival

D. what happens on the opening day of the Sahara Festival

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A. musicians, dancers, horses and hares

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A. LCA is used to study the impact on a product.

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