On the terrible day, father took me to school. When he stopped in front of the school, I didn’t want to get out of the car. I looked at the students outside the building and suddenly felt sick. I slowly opened the car door and slowly got out. The body brace(支架) I wore made it hard for me to move and made me feel ugly. How I wished I were still in my school with all my friends. I didn’t know anyone here. I could feel that everyone was looking at me. I was sure that I would be the ugliest and strangest person they had ever seen. Tears fell on my new dress.
I struggled(奋力) to get through that day, and all the day for the following three days. I feel ugly for most of the time. I could hardly wait to take off the brace.
That day finally arrived on a rainy Thursday in Spring. I was so surprised and excited when the doctor said that I could take off the brace. From that day on, I began to love rain. I was free at last.
I danced up the stairs to the school building the next morning. I wanted everyone to see me, but to my surprise, no one said a word about my brace for the whole day, even Danielle, my best friend. I couldn’t wait to ask her, “Danielle, don’t you notice anything different about me? It’s the brace. The brace is gone.”
Danielle just looked at me and said, “ I know the brace is gone, but I don’t think it’ll make much difference. With or without it, you are still my friend.”
小题1:How did the girl feel when she first went to the school?
A. She was surprised
B. She was upset.
C. She was angry.
小题2:Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The girl’s classmates didn’t like her because she was strange.
B. The girl was always unhappy while she was wearing the brace.
C. The girl’s classmates changed their ideas after she took off the brace.
小题3:The girl took off her brace ___________.
A. The following three days
B. the next day
C. on a rainy Thursday
小题4:The girl _____________ in that school before she wore the body brace.
A. had never studied
B. had already studied
C. had known some friends
小题5:What do we learn from the passage?
A. Danielle was quite different from the others in the class.
B. It was not ugly to wear a brace.
C. Few of the girl’s classmates thought that she was ugly.
