【英语文卷(解析)·2015届山东省临沂市重点中学高三上学期十月月考（201410）】C
The 16 operations W. Mitchell received after the motorcycle accident burned more than 65％ of his body at age 46 left him unable to pick up a fork, dial a telephone or go to the bathroom without help. But Mitchell never believed he was defeated. “I am in charge of my own spaceship,” he said. “It’s my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as starting point. ”
Mitchell bought himself a home in Colorado, a plane and a bar. Later he teamed up with two friends and co-founded a wood burning stove company that grew to be the second largest private employer in his state. Six months later he was piloting the plane. Then four years after the motorcycle accident, the plane Mitchell was piloting crashed back onto the runway during takeoff, permanently paralyzing(使…瘫痪)him from the waist down.
Still determined, Mitchell worked day and night to regain as much independence as possible. He was elected Mayor of Crested Butte, Colorado, to save the town from mineral mining that would ruin its beauty and
