普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语选修7 Unit 1 Living well-Read

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MARTY’S STORY
 
         Hi, my name is Marry Fielding and I guess you could say that I am "one in a million". In other words, there are not many people like me. You see, I have a muscle¹ disease² which makes me very weak, so I can't run or climb stairs as quickly as other people. In addition, sometimes I am very clumsy³ and drop things or bump⁴ into furniture. Unfortunately, the doctors don't know how to make me better, but I am very outgoing and have learned⁵ to adapt to my disability. My motto is: live One day at a time.
          Until I was ten years old I was the same as everyone else. I used to climb trees, swim and play football. In fact, I used to dream about playing professional⁶ football and possibly representing⁷ my country in the World Cup. Then I started to get weaker and weaker, until I could only enjoy football from a bench at the stadium⁸. In the end I went into hospital for medical tests. I stayed there for nearly three months. I think I had at least a billion tests, including one in which they cut out a piece of muscle from my leg and looked at it under a microscope. Even after all that, no one could give my disease a name and it is difficult to know what the future holds.
          One problem is that I don't look any different from other people. So sometimes some children in my primary school would laugh, when I got out of breath⁹ after running a short way or had to stop and rest halfway¹⁰ up the stairs. Sometimes, too, I was too weak to go to school so my education suffered. Every time I returned after an absence, I felt stupid because I was behind the others.
          My life is a lot easier at high school because my fellow students have accepted me. The few who cannot see the real person inside my body do not make me annoyed¹¹, and I just ignore them. All in all I have a good life. I am happy to have found many things I can do, like writing and computer programming¹². My ambition is to work for a firm that develops computer software when I grow up. Last year invented a computer football game and a big company has decided¹³ to buy it from me. I have a very busy life with no time to sit around feeling sorry for myself. As well as going to the movies and football matches with my friends, I spend a lot of time with my pets. I have two rabbits, a parrot, a tank full of fish and a tortoise¹⁴. To look after my pets properly takes a lot of time but I find it worthwhile. I also have to do a lot of work, especially if I have been away for a while.
          In many ways my disability has helped me grow stronger psychologically¹⁵ and become more independent. I have to work hard to live a normal life but it has been worth it. If I had a chance to say one thing to healthy children, it would be this: having a disability does not mean your life is not satisfying¹⁶. So don't feel sorry for the disabled or make fun of them, and don't ignore them either. Just accept them for who they are, and give them encouragement to live as rich and full a life as you do.
         Thank you for reading my story