题目内容：

完形填空

阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Until I was 13, I assumed I was just like everyone else. But one day I read a piece of paper in my dad’s briefcase that ________ everything. That’s when I saw the words: “Simone is said to have Asperger syndrome.”

I screamed at my dad, “Tell me what it is!” He _______ that I have a mild form of brain disorders, which was a problem that shapes the way I interact with other people. I wasn’t sure exactly what he _______, but it didn’t matter. I just wanted to try to ________ my shock and go back to the way things were before I knew.

But even though I wouldn’t ________ acknowledge the news, Asperger’s still destroyed my confidence and made me ________ and isolated. I felt like an outcast(被抛弃者)---not just because Asperger’s made it hard for me to make friends, but because now I had this _______ . I just wanted to be like everyone else. ________, at 16, I said to myself, “Enough! You can’t run and hide from it, girl. Just face it.”

It’s funny, the first time I thought something was _______ was not because of what I couldn’t do ---- it was because of what i could do. In the sixth grade, while other kids were _______ with spelling, I was like a human spell-checker! I’ve also had a photographic memory, and _______ I call my “super powers”---extrasensory hearing and acute awareness: I can ______ phone numbers people dial just by the sound the buttons make when pressed or _______ hear one sour note in an entire symphony! And I can ________ pay attention to two things at once.

Don’t get me wrong. Asperger’s can be very confusing. For years I felt like a butterfly ________ in its cocoon(茧), waiting to emerge. It took years of work with a psychologist to ________ the difficulty of making friends.

I’m not going to let Asperger’s create ________ for me. That’ why I am happy to have found out about and faced my _______. Asperger’s is a metaphor(象征) for life: We all have _______ , but the key is to be able to have the ______ to face what’s bad about them and still find what’s good.

1.A. prevented    B. changed      C. determined    D. improved

2.A. explained    B. realized     C. apologized     D. suspected

3.A. meant       B. predicted     C. concerned     D. doubted

4.A. admit         B. subscribe     C. recognize      D. ignore

5.A. appropriately B. consciously  C. previously     D. automatically

6.A. anxious       B. stressed      C. lonely        D. ashamed

7.A. sign          B. symbol       C. label         D. signal

8.A. Consequently B. Gradually    C. Fortunately   D. Eventually

9.A. unusual       B. specific     C. uncomfortable  D. awkward

10.A. combining   B. exchanging  C.struggling      D. dealing

11.A. that         B. what         C. whom          D. which

12.A. figure out B. pick out      C. try out       D. make out

13.A. even        B. still        C. ever           D. just

14.A. sensitively B. fully        C. flexibly      D. firmly

15.A. absorbed     B. buried       C. engaged       D. trapped

16.A. get over     B. knock down    C. take up       D.go through

17.A. surprises   B. limitations   C. opportunities D.experiences

18.A. failure     B. desperation   C. disability     D. suffering

19.A. talents     B. dreams        C. challenges     D. aims

20.A. ambition    B. courage      C. right         D. attempt