安徽潜山县2017高考英语阅读理解一轮精炼（四）及答案.docVIP

安徽潜山县2017高考英语阅读理解一轮精炼（四）及答案 （2016高考训练）阅读下列材料，从每题所给的选项中选出最佳选项。 体裁：记叙文　话题：个人情感　词数：721　时间：8′ I was no different from any other mother. When my little boy, Skyler, was born, I longed for the day he would talk to me.My husband and I dreamed about the first sweet“Mama”or“Dada”．Every cry or coo was a small glimpse into my sons mind. My babys noises were even more precious to me because Skyler had been born with several health problems.At first, the problems had delayed his development, but once they were safely behind us, I looked forward to my sons first words.They didnt come. At age three，Skyler was diagnosed as autistic(自闭症的)，a developmental disability destined to affect his social and emotional well-being throughout his entire life.Skyler couldnt talk—wouldnt talk.I would probably never hear any words from him at all.In a store, I would hear a child calling “Mommy”， and I would wonder if that was what my little boy might sound like.I wondered how it would feel to hear my child call out for me. But I could have learned to live with his silence if it werent for another hallmark characteristic of autism：Skyler formed no attachments.He didnt want to be held, much preferring to lie in his bed or sit in his car seat.He wouldnt look at me; sometimes, he even looked through me. Once, when I took him to the doctor, we talked to a specialist who was of my size, age and who had the same hair color as me.When it was time to go, Skyler went to her instead of me—he couldnt tell us apart.When Skyler was three, he spent three days at Camp Courageous for disabled children in Iowa, and when he returned he didnt even recognize me. The pain was almost unbearable.My own son didnt even know I was his mother. I hid the pain, and we did the best we could for Skyler.We enrolled him in our local area educational agency preschool, where the teachers and speech pathologist worked hard to help Skyler connect with the world around him.They used pictures and computer voice-machines that spoke for