When I was in the 8th grade in Ohio, a girl named Helen in my class had a terrible accident. As she was to the bus in order not to miss it, she slipped on the ice and fell under the back wheels of the bus. She the accident but was paralyzed from the waist down. I went to see her, in my 13-year-old thinking that she wouldn’t live from then on. Over the years, I and didn’t think much about Helen after that. Three years ago, in Florida, my oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike, a terrible brain injury. While I was looking after my son, a lady who said she was the hospital’s social worker called. It was a (an) trying day. I burst into tears for no reason and rang. A short time 1ater, a beautiful woman, in a wheelchair, into my son’s room with a box of. After 16 years, I still Helen. She smiled, handed me the tissues and hugged me. I told her who I was, and after we both went through the shock of that, she began to tell me about since we last saw each other. She married, had children and got her degree so that she the path for those people who were less than her. She told me that if there was anything she could give me, it would be. Looking at this wonderful, giving person, I felt. But I also felt the first hope I had since learning that my son was. From this person that I thought would have no of life, I learned that where there is life, there is hope. My son miraculously and we moved north, but I owe Helen that I can never repay.
试题分析：文章大意：文章讲述了作者的儿子因车祸而受伤，这令他很难过。但他的同样遭受过车祸的儿时的同学海伦的生活态度感染了他，给他了希望，最后他的儿子奇迹般的康复了。 【小题1】考查动词。Helen是因为追赶公交车而不小心滑倒在公交车后车轮底下的，因此选running表示“追赶”。故选C 【小题2】考查动词。lived生活；survived幸存；existed存在；escaped逃跑。从后半句“(Helen)从腰部以下全部瘫痪”可知，Helen从车祸中幸存了下来。survive the accident是常用搭配，表示“从事故中幸存下来”。故选B 【小题3】考查名词。in one’s mind意为“在某人的心目中”。 句意是以一个13岁孩子的思维认为从此她不可能再正常生活了。故选A 【小题4】考查副词。equally平等地；calmly平静地；quietly安静地；normally正常地。作者认为Helen成为残疾人之后很难再过正常人的生活，因此这里用normally。故选D 【小题5】考查动词。从后一句可知，作者从Ohio搬到了Florida。因此选moved。句意是几年后我离开了，并且古语海伦再没想那么多。故选B 【小题6】考查动词。suffering遭受；causing导致；bearing忍受；catching抓住。儿子被汽车撞了，导致了严重的脑损伤。故选B 【小题7】考查副词。儿子出了车祸对母亲来说是一件非常难受的事情，因此选particularly“特别”；normally“正常地”，necessarily“必要地”，essentially“重要地”，均不符合语境。故选B 【小题8】考查短语。ring off挂断电话。从前句的作者的情绪可知，她应该是挂断了电话。句意是我无原因的流泪了并挂断了电话。故选B 【小题9】考查动词。因为是坐着轮椅所以用roll，滚动。坐着轮椅不可能是跑进、走进或是移进房间，而应该是滚动轮椅进入房间的。故选C 【小题10】考查名词。tissues纸巾；presents礼物；pills药片；candies糖果。由后面的“She smiled, handed me the tissues and hugged me.”可知Helen来的时候带着纸巾。故选A 【小题11】考查动词。realized意识到；knew知道；recognized认出；reminded记得。虽然16年没见，但作者还是认出了Helen，用recognized。故选C 【小题12】考查名词。“当我们从惊讶中缓过神来以后，Helen开始向我讲述我们最后一次见面之后她的生活——结婚、生子、获得学位”。B、C、D三项都不全面。故选A。 【小题13】考查形容词。clear清晰的；smoothed使平静；cleaned干净的；opened打开。smooth the path for sb．固定搭配，“为某人铺平道路”。 句意是她使那些比她更不幸的人平静下来。故选B 【小题14】考查形容词。fortunate幸运。作为残疾人，Helen能结婚、生子、获得学位，是很幸运的事，因此她这样做就为那些生活比她还要不幸的人铺平了生活道路。故选D 【小题15】考查上下文连串。由下文中的I learned that where there is life, there is hope可以推出答案。海伦给作者的应该是精神上的安慰，希望。故选B。 【小题16】考查形容词。在一名身残志坚的朋友面前，作者感觉到自己的渺小，因此用small，而不是weak(软弱的)，pitiful(同情的)，shameless(无耻的)。故选A 【小题17】考查动词。admitted承认；beaten打击；hurt受伤；hospitalized住院。从上文提到的“my oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike, 6 (causing) a terrible brain injury”可知这里作者指的是儿子在意外中受伤，用hurt，而其他的词性不符合语境。故选C。 【小题18】考查名词。与前文提到的Helen不会过正常人的生活相对应，作者曾经以为Helen在身体残疾后，她的生活质量不会很好，而不是没有用处或没有意义。故选D 【小题19】考查动词。从前面的修饰词miraculously及后面的moved north可知，这里应指的是作者儿子康复，用recovered而不是treated治疗，worsened恶化，relieved减轻。故选D 【小题20】考查名词。a debt债务，这里应指人情债，句意是我欠海伦一个永远都无法偿还的人情债。此句意为“但是我欠Helen一笔永远偿还不了的债”。故选C 考点：考查记叙文