UntilIwas13,IassumedIwasjustlikeeveryoneelse.ButonedayI...

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Until I was 13, I assumed I was just like everyone else. But one day I read a piece of paper in my dad’s briefcase that _36_everything. That’s when I saw the words: “Simone is said to have Asperger syndrome.”

I screamed at my dad, “Tell me what it is!” He _37_ that I have a mild form of brain disorders, which was a problem that shapes the way I interact with other people. I wasn’t sure exactly what he _38_, but it didn’t matter. I just wanted to try to _39_ my shock and go back to the way things were before I knew.

But even though I wouldn’t _40_ acknowledge the news, Asperger’s still destroyed my confidence and made me _41_ and isolated. I felt like an outcast(被抛弃者)---not just because Asperger’s made it hard for me to make friends, but because now I had this _42_ . I just wanted to be like everyone else. _43_, at 16, I said to myself, “Enough! You can’t run and hide from it, girl. Just face it.”

It’s funny, the first time I thought something was _44_ was not because of what I couldn’t do ---- it was because of what I could do. In the sixth grade, while other kids were _45_ with spelling, I was like a human spell-checker! I’ve also had a photographic memory, and _46_ I call my “super powers”---extrasensory hearing and acute awareness: I can _47_ phone numbers people dial just by the sound the buttons make when pressed or _48_ hear one sour note in an entire symphony! And I can _49_ pay attention to two things at once.

Don’t get me wrong. Asperger’s can be very confusing. For years I felt like a butterfly _50_ in its cocoon (茧), waiting to emerge. It took years of work with a psychologist to _51_ the difficulty of making friends.

I’m not going to let Asperger’s create _52_ for me. That’ why I am happy to have found out about and faced my _53_. Asperger’s is a metaphor(象征) for life: We all have _54_ , but the key is to be able to have the _55_ to face what’s bad about them and still find what’s good.

36. A. prevented B. changed C. determined D. improved

37. A. explained B. realized C. apologized D. suspected

38. A. meant B. predicted C. concerned D. doubted

39. A. admit B. subscribe C. recognize D. ignore

40. A. appropriately B. consciously C. previously D. automatically

41. A. anxious B. stressed C. lonely D. ashamed

42. A. sign B. symbol C. label D. signal

43. A. Consequently B. Gradually C. Fortunately D. Eventually

44. A. unusual B. specific C. uncomfortable D. awkward

45. A. combining B. exchanging ggling D. dealing

46. A. that B. what C. whom D. which

47. A. figure out B. pick out C. try out D. make out