第二部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意。然后从21--40各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项

     I wished I had known earlier the fact that I was a low achiever because there was a reason beyond my control. Then I  21  have worked so hard in my late twenties and early thirties. But I just didn’t  22  that. I was writing and writing. I was working for no other reason than to hear people praise me.

    Most people who  23  university read at least twice as fast as I do. I can never tell my left  24  my right. I avoid dialing a telephone if I can help it, because I sometimes have to try three times before getting the number  25  . I hear that recording “The number you have reached is not  26 ” more than any man on earth.

    Despite my  27 I view my dyslexia(difficulty in reading) as a gift, not a curse(诅咒). Many dyslexics are good at right brain, namely abstract thought ,and that is  28  my king of creative writing is. I’m starting with  29  and coming up with something that didn’t exist before. That’s my strong point. I  30  my career to Ralph, Salisbury, my writing instructor at the university of Oregon, who looked past my misspellings and gave me  31  and hope. I just carried on and never looked  32  . I’m also very“visual”(视觉的).This means nothing in school, but when I write books or scripts, I’m seeing everything in my imagination. I write  33  . I go like the wind and can  34  up to 15 pages a day. Writing is not the  35 . I have no problem downloading; it is inputting  36  things get messed up.

    The real  37  I have for dyslexics is not that they have to  38  with messy input, but that they will quit on themselves before they finish school. Parents have to create victories whenever they can,  39  it is music, sports or the arts. You want your dyslexic child to be able to say, “Yeah, reading is  40  . But I have these other things I can do.”

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