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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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.The ____36___ was like a hot sword had been struck through my head.I fell down on my hands and knees, and ___37___ I saw blood dripping onto the ground, I knew it was ___38___.
They ___39___ me to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, where there's a special eye center.The ____40___ there operated on me several times but couldn't save my eye.When they told me the news, I wanted to ___ 41___.
Even after I got my prosthetic eye (义眼), I couldn't ____42___ off the depression.To make matters worse, I lost my job as a transportation officer for the Tennessee Department of Children's Services because of ___43___ about my driving ability.But one morning, I woke up and the TV was ___44___, and there was a 16-year-old girl.She had been ___45___ burned on her face, hands, and legs and was learning to walk again.She ___46___ a 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) ___47___.Get over it.And I ____48___.
It's been almost 12 years since my ____49___, and there isn't anything I can't do now that I used to do.Although I didn't get my ___50___ job back, I could do something else to ___51___ a happy life.
I read a ___52___ once where a man was feeling bad because he had no ___53___, until he met a man who had no feet. No matter how destroying your problem is, ___54___ there's always someone somewhere who's worse off.____55___ having just one eye, I see things a lot more clearly now.
A.fight B.pain C.injury D.wound
A.before B.though C.because D.when
A.bad C.strange D.lucky
A.forced B.passed C.took D.gave
A.doctors B.workers C.teachers D.soldiers
A.rise C.leave D.die
A.set B.shake C.turn D.leave
A.possibilities B.decisions C.chances D.concerns
A.off B.up C.on D.down
A.badly B.carefully C.finally D.hardly
A.developed B.covered C.enjoyed D.wore
A.ear B.eye C.arm D.nose
A.worked B.stopped C.did D.helped
A.accident B.experiment C.argument D.quarrel
A.new B.hard C.easy D.former
A.build B.lead C.search D.avoid
A.humor B.joke C.poem D.story
A.clothes B.jackets C.shoes D.trousers
A.remember B.forget C.promise D.prove
A.Through B.Despite C.Without D.Beyond