世纪英语 拓展阅读教程I 第四版 答案 1tuo1_unit3.ppt

UNIT 3 Deep Concern Contents Section 1 “你是我的女儿就好了!”温情的话语,婉如天使般的声音, 改变了人的一生? The Whisper Test By Mary Ann Bird I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it. I was born with a , and when I started school my classmates made it clear to me how I must look to others: 主题阅读 a little girl with a lip, nose, teeth and speech. When schoolmates would ask, “what happened to your lip?” I’d tell them I’d fallen and cut it on a piece of glass. Somehow, it seemed more to have suffered an accident than to have been born different. 主题阅读 I was that no one outside my family would love me, or even like me. Then I entered Mrs. Leonard’s second-grade class. Mrs. Leonard was round and pretty and , with shining brown hair and warm, dark, smiling eyes. Everyone her. But no one came to love her more than I did. The time came for the hearing test given at our school. 主题阅读 I could hardly hear out of one ear and was not to something else that would me as different. So I . “The test” required each child to go to the classroom door, turn , close one ear with a finger while the teacher whispered something from her desk, which the child repeated. Then the same for the other ear. 主题阅读 Nobody checked how the untested ear was covered so I just to cover mine. As usual, I was the last. All through the testing I wondered what Mrs. Leonard might say to me. I knew from years that the teacher whispered things like “the sky is blue” or “do you have new shoes?” 主题阅读 My time came. I turned my bad ear toward her, up the other just enough to be able to hear. I waited, and then came the words that God had surely put into her mouth, six word