第6练 阅读理解＋任务型阅读＋短文改错＋书面表达
Ⅰ.阅读理解
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体裁：记叙文 话题：人物传记 词数：586 时间：6′
You could feel sorry for Alberto Torres，who is blind.The last thing he remembers seeing was his daughter being born 13 years ago.Then the world went blank; he can only imagine what his only child looks like now，as a teenaged honor student.Bad luck is no stranger to this warm and thoughtful 37yearold man.His mother died of cancer when he was 4，and his father，who was often ill，had to give him up to the care of the state when he was 11.He later worked for 19 years in a workshop making household goods，deathly boring work.Earlier this month，Alberto Torres's wife，who had just been laid off from her job，had to have a breast removed due to cancer and now faces a year of radiation treatments.Things seemed always to go from almost incredibly bad to worse.Even Mr.Torres's good luck has a dark side：Five years ago，his lovely guide dog pulled him out of the path of a truck.Mr.Torres was not hurt.The dog was killed.
But Mr.Torres does not feel sorry for himself.“These are just little bumps you have to go over in your life，” he said.At 5 a．m.on a recent morning，we caught up with Mr.Torres at a subway stop in Brooklyn，New York，near where he lives in a thirdfloor apartment (with no elevator)．He had been up since 3 a．m.，feeding his new dog，making coffee，getting ready.“When you're blind，it takes a little longer to do things，” he said.
