题型：完形填空 题类： 难易度：普通
江西省南昌市2023-2024学年八年级下学期期中英语试题
Romain Rolland once said, "There is only one kind of heroism (英雄主义) in the world, and that is to still love life after recognizing the truth of life." Cai Lei, a patient with ALS (渐冻症), perfectly 1 this sentence.
Cai Lei was once the vice president of Jingdong Group, 2 a good job, and a happy family.
But who would have thought that at the 3 of 41, he was diagnosed with ALS and could only watch his body "frozen" 4 he could not breathe.
The illness gave him a fatal (致命) wound, but he didn't 5 to bow to fate. He began to think about 6 he could do for people with ALS in the remaining days.
After much thought, Cai Lei 7 an idea: he wants to produce medicines that are 8 for the treatment of ALS.
When Cai Lei told others about this idea, everyone thought he was 9 . You know, medicine development takes at least 10 years. 10 , the period from diagnosis to death of patients with ALS is no more than 5 years. Allowing patients at the moment to use medicines is 11 !
What's worse, many people in society still 12 him. Everyone's misunderstanding is like a 13 burning Cai Lei's heart.
Although he is heartbroken, he never defends (辩解) 14 . He devotes himself to the research and development of 15 . He believes: "Even if we can't use this medicine, we should let our future generations use it."
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It was a Sunday morning. Lori was busy writing in her book. Marilyn was drinking coffee and I was reading a newspaper. Suddenly, Lori 1 and asked, "Why are there more pictures of Lisa than there are of 2 ?"Lisa is our older daughter.
I stared back, not understanding the 3 . Lori left the room . I looked at Marily,"Are there more pictures of Lisa than of Lori?"
"I've never 4 them. I don't know,"replied Mrilyn.
" But 5 would Lori ask such a question?" I asked. After a few minutes of thought, Marilyn said,"In my memory(记忆),you were taking photos when Lisa was born.
You hardly went 6 without a camera. When Lori was born, videos became 7 . You used a video camera to record nearly everything in our lives. There must be hundreds of videos of Lori in the computer that Lori has8 seen or doesn't remember."
Later that night, when we were alone, I turned on the computer and found the 9 of Lori.
"What are you going to do?" Marilyn asked.
"Her birthday is coming," I said. "Let's make an album for her as a gift. I don't know if the album will answer her question, 10 at least she'll know that we care enough to find her an answer."
Over the next few days, we secretly went through all the videos. We selected (挑选) some 11 . Marilyn had them made into photos. When the photos were returned, we placed them' into an album.
When we looked at the album, all the 12 memories came back. We hoped it showed how 13 she was to us.
On th June, when passing Lori's room to leave for work, I opened the door and slipped the album inside. Attached to it was a birthday card with a note 14 why her mother and I had put the album together.
It was about eight o'clock when my office telephone rang. I picked up the receiver. A tiny voice spoke,"I love you, Daddy,"she said and disconnected. I knew our 15 had been received.
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