首页
登录
职称英语
(1)I had known for a long time that the people around me used a method of com
(1)I had known for a long time that the people around me used a method of com
游客
2023-10-25
102
管理
问题
(1)I had known for a long time that the people around me used a method of communication different from mine: and even before I knew that a deaf child could be taught to speak, I was conscious of dissatisfaction with the means of communication I already possessed. One who is entirely dependent upon the manual alphabet has always a sense of restraint, of narrowness. My thoughts would often rise and beat up like birds against the wind, and I persisted in using my lips and voice. Friends tried to discourage this tendency, fearing lest it would lead to disappointment. But I persisted, and an accident soon occurred which resulted in the breaking down of this great barrier—I heard the story of Ragnhild Kaata.
(2) In 1890 Mrs. Lamson, who had been one of Laura Bridgman’s teachers, and who had just returned from a visit to Norway and Sweden, came to see me, and told me of Ragnhild Kaata, a deaf and blind girl in Norway who had actually been taught to speak. Mrs. Lamson had scarcely finished telling me about this girl’s success before I was on fire with eagerness. I resolved that I, too, would learn to speak. I would not rest satisfied until my teacher took me, for advice and assistance, to Miss Sarah Fuller, principal of the Horace Mann School. This lovely, sweet-natured lady offered to teach me herself, and we began the twenty-sixth of March, 1890.
(3) Miss Fuller’s method was this: she passed my hand lightly over her face, and let me feel the position of her tongue and lips when she made a sound. I was eager to imitate every motion and in an hour had learned six elements of speech: M, P, A, S, T, I. Miss Fuller gave me eleven lessons in all. I shall never forget the surprise and delight I felt when I uttered my first connected sentence, " It is warm. " True, they were broken and stammering syllables: but they were human speech. My soul, conscious of new strength, came out of bondage, and was reaching through those broken symbols of speech to all knowledge and all faith.
(4) No deaf child who has earnestly tried to speak the words which he has never heard—to come out of the prison of silence, where no tone of love, no song of bird, no strain of music ever pierces the stillness— can forget the thrill of surprise, the joy of discovery which came over him when he uttered his first word. Only such a one can appreciate the eagerness with which I talked to my toys, to stones, trees, birds and dumb animals, or the delight I felt when at my call Mildred ran to me or my dogs obeyed my commands. It is an unspeakable boon to me to be able to speak in winged words that need no interpretation. As I talked, happy thoughts fluttered up out of my words that might perhaps have struggled in vain to escape my fingers.
(5) But it must not be supposed that I could really talk in this short time. I had learned only the elements of speech. Miss Fuller and Miss Sullivan could understand me, but most people would not have understood one word in a hundred. Nor is it true that, after I had learned these elements, I did the rest of the work myself. But for Miss Sullivan’s genius, untiring perseverance and devotion, I could not have progressed as far as I have toward natural speech. In the first place, I laboured night and day before I could be understood even by my most intimate friends: in the second place, I needed Miss Sullivan’s assistance constantly in my efforts to articulate each sound clearly and to combine all sounds in a thousand ways. Even now she calls my attention every day to mispronounced words.
(6) All teachers of the deaf know what this means, and only they can at all appreciate the peculiar difficulties with which I had to contend. In reading my teacher’s lips I was wholly dependent on my fingers: I had to use the sense of touch in catching the vibrations of the throat, the movements of the mouth and the expression of the face: and often this sense was at fault. In such cases I was forced to repeat the words or sentences, sometimes for hours, until I felt the proper ring in my own voice. My work was practice, practice, practice. Discouragement and weariness cast me down frequently: but the next moment the thought that I should soon be at home and show my loved ones what I had accomplished, spurred me on, and I eagerly looked forward to their pleasure in my achievement. [br] At die first utterance of a word, the author experienced all the following feelings EXCEPT______.
选项
A、a touch of astonishment
B、slight tension
C、great pleasure
D、a sense of freedom
答案
B
解析
推断题。原文第三段第四句提到了作者尝试说出第一句话时的感受,她直接用到的两个词是surprise和delight,这与A和C表述的意义一致,因此先排除这两个选项;该段倒数第一句提到,在灵魂深处,“我”感受到了一股挣脱了某种束缚的新生力量,可见她感到了一种自由,因此D也应排除。原文中并没有说她在学习说话的时候是否感到紧张,B与原文不符,故为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3129223.html
相关试题推荐
MostChinesepeoplewenttoworkbybikewithinliving_____.(2012-72)A、mindB、kn
OnJanuary1st,peopleusuallymakeaNewYear’s_____suchasquittingsmokingor
SARS,whichhadaffectedmillionsofpeoplethroughouttheworld,______doctorsa
Thepopularnotionthatolderpeopleneedlesssleepthanyoungeradultsisamy
Thepopularnotionthatolderpeopleneedlesssleepthanyoungeradultsisamy
Thepopularnotionthatolderpeopleneedlesssleepthanyoungeradultsisamy
Thepopularnotionthatolderpeopleneedlesssleepthanyoungeradultsisamy
Thepopularnotionthatolderpeopleneedlesssleepthanyoungeradultsisamy
Thefilmrevolvesaroundthreemain______:a55-year-oldwidow,awomanwhois
Itisreportedthatabouttwohundredpeoplediedintheaccident,_______child
随机试题
(1)Almost60%offive-year-oldsinsomeofBritain’spoorestareasdonotre
期货中介机构不可以()。A、设计期货合约B、代理客户入市交易C、提供期货交易咨询D、普及期货交易知识A期货中介机构为期货投资者服务,它连接期货投
Shewas______onlybyherwishtohelptheoldman,andexpectednothinginret
患儿女,8岁。已诊断Graves病,应采用什么治疗A、心得安 B、甲巯咪唑
不主动寻求取得超越市场表现的基金是()。A.积极成长基金 B.主动型基金
具有"止血不留瘀"特点的药物是A.大蓟、茜草 B.三七、蒲黄 C.槐花、三七
把下面的六个图形分为两类,使每一类图形都有各自的共同特征或规律,分类正确的一项是
处于衰退期的产品运用( )促销手段。A.广告为主,辅以人员推销 B.广告为主
若辖区内有危险化学品设施,陆上消防站应布置在常年主导风向的上风或侧风处,距危险化
如图示(图中单位为mm),某建筑采用柱下独立方形基础,基础底面尺寸为2.4mX2
最新回复
(
0
)