题型:阅读理解 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
北京市房山区2020-2021学年高一下学期英语期中试卷
Sam was born with a bone disease. He has never walked. His bones are so fragile that they can break if he just coughs or sneezes.
When Sam was young, he was always breaking bones. He never liked fireworks. A sudden loud bang would scare him so much that he could break some bones. Sam's family had to learn how fragile he was. When he was a baby, it was very difficult for them.
No one knew much about what would happen to Sam. His friends grew taller, but he didn't. Sam didn't let how he looked worry him. "How we look on the outside," he said, "is only a small part of who we are."
Sam wanted to do everything that his friends did. Doctors put metal pins in his legs to make them stronger, but the pins didn't help him walk. So Sam needed wheelchairs. Sam had wheelchairs to take him to different places. He had some wheelchairs for going over sand and others that would take him over muddy, rocky places.
Once, Sam's wheelchair got stuck in some mud. There was no one around to help him, so he had to crawl home on his stomach.
Sam has been to many places in the world. He has been down rivers and in rainforests. If he couldn't get somewhere in his chair, people would carry him.
One day, when Sam was in the mountains, his wheelchair broke. He knew a lot about chairs, but he couldn't fix this one. Then, he had an idea. He would invent a new and different wheelchair. So Sam invented a chair that he can do everything in. Sam's wheelchair, the EZi-Riser, can go as high as a bench and as low as the ground. It can move around in small places. Now, many people around the world are using his wheelchair.
Sam will always be small. He will never be able to walk. But he says, "There is always a way to do everything. It may not be the way most people do things. It may take a while to work it out, but there is always a way."
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