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“Who can ever have imagined that someone like me would make it this far?” asked Chad Wood last week ...
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“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 ______ to his fellow classmates to never give up-and the words ______ much more to himself. That’s because Chad is deaf, and he told the story of the serious troubles he ______ to graduate first in his class at Harrison High school in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Chad didn’t start to ______ until he was 5, according to his mother, Pam Wood. Although her son was ______ a disadvantage, she was determined not to treat him ______.“I’ve expected him to do everything every other kid does, and I saw no ______ why he couldn’t,” she told ABC News.“And if he ______ the first time, we just tried again.”
Chad, 17, worked hard throughout school, ______ 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 ______. He received full school fare to Vanderbilt University. “Deafness had taught me a lesson to never ______ ,” he said in the speech. ”Not when the experts tell you it cannot be done. Not when you have ______ so far behind that escaping seems the only way ______. Not when achieving your dreams seems an entire ______.”
Chad spoke for about four minutes, after which he received a standing applause from the class and ______ 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 ______ on their lives and how they’re really ______ by it,” Chad told ABC News. “It feels ______. Seeing that my words ______ have a power on someone and that they want to work harder ______ 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
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