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高考阅读训练二 I didn’t cry when I learned I was the parent of a mentally handicapped（弱智的）child. “Go ahead and cry,” the doctor __36__ kindly. But I couldn’t cry then nor during the months that followed. We sent her to a kindergarten in our neighborhood at age seven. I worried that she was the “__37__” child among twenty five-year-olds. __38__, positive things began to happen to Kristi in her school, and to her schoolmates, too. When talking big of their own accomplishments, Kristi’s classmates always took __39__ to praise her as well, “Kristi got all her spelling words right today.” No one would say that her spelling list was easier than anyone else’s. During Kristi’s second year in school, she __40__ a very special challenge. The big public event of the term was a __41__ based on the final outcome of the year’s music and physical education activities. Kristi was __42__ in both. My husband and I felt __43__ about the day as well. On the day of the program, Kristi __44__ to be sick. Desperately I wanted to keep her home. Why let Kristi fail in a gymnasium __45__ with parents, students and teachers？What a simple __46__！But I finally got her onto the school bus. Just as I had forced my daughter to go to school, now I forced myself to go, too.Then I knew Kristi’s __47__. Her class was divided into relay teams. With her slow and clumsy reactions, she would surely __48__ her team. But as Kristi’s turn to __49__ came, a change took place in her team. The tallest boy in the line stepped __50__ Kristi and placed his hands on her waist 腰 . Two other boys stood a little ahead of her. The __51__ the player in front of Kristi stepped from the sack bag , the two boys seized it and held it open while the tall boy __52__Kristi and dropped her neatly into the sack. A girl ahead took her hand and supported her until she gained her __53__. Then off Kristi hopped（跳跃）, smiling and proud. At the cheers of the crowd, I slipped out to thank Heaven for the warm and considerate people making it p