阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个

选项中，选择最佳选项。

   People who have special needs for children understand that even small success means a lot. We’ve learned to respect people who work very hard to do    31   things, like learning to tie shoes.

   My eight-year-old son, Brian, wanted to win an award(奖，奖金) by learning to tie his own shoes. He was given ten days to prepare for the goal. Because Brian has Down syndrome(唐氏综合症), our whole family    32    him. Days passed and he could not do it and he cried. We cried with him. The day came for the meeting. We were worried about our lack of ability to teach such a simple task and spoke    33    about not taking him to the meeting that night. We didn’t want to make him sad.

I nearly opened my    34    to tell him that it wasn’t important for him to learn to tie his shoes. But before I did that, his older sister    35    a new idea.

“Brian,” she softly asked, “why don’t you try closing your eyes? See if you can tie your shoes in your imagination. That way, if you get up to go someplace early before the sun comes up, you can tie your shoes in the    36   .”

   Brian sat, with eyes closed, and tied his shoes perfectly. We looked at each other excitedly. And then we    37   to his meeting.

   Brian went first. He, with eyes closed,   38    an award that might weight more than an Olympic Gold Medal. Tears of joy fell.

   Brian turned something difficult into something ordinary, small and simple. When he found a new    39    to solve the problem, it became an important event because it was really difficult for him. We all cheered for him. Brian still ties his shoes as his big sister suggested so many years ago.

   Since then, I believe that when things get difficult and I can’t find a solution to a problem, I just close my eyes and find a    40   way.

进入考试题库