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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中，选出最佳选项。

“Who can ever have imagined that someone like me would make it this far?” asked Chad Wood last week during his high school graduation speech as the best student. Chad offered     1   to his fellow classmates to never give up—and the words    2   much more to himself. That’s because Chad is deaf, and he told the story of the serious troubles he    3   to graduate first in his class at Harrison High school in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Chad didn’t start to     4   until he was 5, according to his mother, Pam Wood. Although her son was     5   a disadvantage, she was determined not to treat him     6   .“I’ve expected him to do everything every other kid does, and I saw no     7   why he couldn’t,” she told ABC News. “And if he     8   the first time, we just tried again.”

    Chad, 17, worked hard throughout school,     9   no special treatment but sitting at the front of the class and using a special audio system so he could hear the teacher. All his hard work    10   . He received full school fare to Vanderbilt University. “Deafness had taught me a lesson to never    11   ,” he said in the speech. “Not when the experts tell you it cannot be done. Not when you have     12   so far behind that escaping seems the only way    13   . Not when achieving your dreams seems an entire    14   .”

Chad spoke for about four minutes, after which he received a standing applause from the class and    15   messages from family, friends and strangers. “They’ve been sending me messages on Facebook, email; they’ve been talking to me in person telling me how it had a     16   on their lives and how they’re really     17   by it,” Chad told ABC News. “It feels     18   . Seeing that my words     19   have a power on someone and that they want to work harder    20   my words makes me feel wonderful.”

1.A. warning       B. description      C. advice       D. information

2.A. analysed     B. meant       C. recognized      D. persuaded

3.A. needed       B. faced       C. consisted      D. foresaw

4.A. cry        B. write       C. smell       D. hear

5.A. at        B. for       C. under       D. by

6.A. deadly       B. kindly       C. differently      D. similarly

7.A. harm       B. reason       C. trouble       D. conclusion

8.A. failed       B. organized      C. succeed      D. blamed

9.A. receive       B. receiving      C. to receive      D. received

10.A. set off       B. dropped off     C. took off      D. paid off

11.A. give in       B. give up      C. give out      D. give away

12.A. waited       B. walked      C. fallen       D. gone

13.A. up       B. off       C. in        D. out

14.A. impossibility    B. success      C. victory       D. possibility

15.A. scientific      B. negative      C. supportive      D. cautious

16.A. reward       B. power       C. source       D. detail

17.A. defeated      B. exposed      C. educated      D. puzzled

18.A. unwilling      B. amazing      C. shocking      D. embarrassing

19.A. actually      B. suddenly      C. strangely      D. extremely

20. A. apart from      B. according to    C. instead of      D. because of