The teacher sent me home with a note for my mother that said I needed to visit the eye doctor because I failed the vision test. The trip home that day was very slow.
My mother said it would all be just fine. "It wouldn't hurt a bit," she said. But I wasn't worried about pain﹣I was worried about looking (1) .
The next day, my mother pulled me to the eye doctor's office. I (2) a set of frames (镜框) and tried to believe my mother when she said they looked really (3) on me. The doctor said the glasses would be ready soon. But I wasn't ready at all, and I didn't think I ever would be.
When the glasses arrived, the eye doctor put them on my face and walked me out onto the sidewalk in front of his office. When I looked(4) from my shoes, I found myself in a whole new world ﹣ a world filled with (5) pictures, bright colours, and fine detail everywhere I looked. Suddenly I (6) the beautiful outline of red leaves on trees. I could see the details of people's faces long before they were standing in front of me. I could see my mother (7) as she watched me see the world in a whole new way.
"Glasses aren't so bad, are they? " Mom asked.
"Not at all, " I though to myself. On that first day, they were a (8) .
The Monday morning came, and I had to (9) the kids in my classroom. And it happened, just like I feared it would be. A mean kid pointed at me in the middle of the maths class and shouted, "Four (10) ! " But at the same moment, looking through my new glasses, I could see all the way across the room that the kid who had said it had an awfully big nose.
(1)A. smart |
B. old |
C. funny |
D. blind |
(2)A. chose |
B. made |
C. fixed |
D. owned |
(3)A. silly |
B. good |
C. huge |
D. strange |
(4)A. around |
B. back |
C. down |
D. up |
(5)A. pale |
B. dark |
C. clever |
D. rare |
(6)A. noticed |
B. recorded |
C. developed |
D. imagined |
(7)A. crying |
B. worrying |
C. dreaming |
D. smiling |
(8)A. present |
B. wonder |
C. beauty |
D. fashion |
(9)A. impress |
B. visit |
C. face |
D. avoid |
(10)A. noses |
B. eyes |
C. glasses |
D. frames |