What’s a Little Hair Between Friends 削发见真情
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- 创建于 2005年9月15日
- 最后更新于 2023年12月18日
- 发布于 2011年9月14日
- 作者：Mike Lee
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When push comes to shove, what would you do for a friend? Would you be ___1___ to shave your head bald? If you were a friend of Andrew Gillespie, you would.
当朋友有难时，你会为朋友做什么?你愿意剃光头吗?假如你是安德鲁葛莱斯比的朋友，你会愿意的。
Andrew is an 18-year-old high school student in the United States. During spring break this year he was ___2___ with osteosarcoma, a bone cancer that develops around the knees of growing teenagers. To deal with the cancer, Andrew had to have ___3___ to remove the fibula in his right leg and also go for chemotherapy. Unfortunately, chemotherapy makes people’s hair ___4___. There was only one thing to do then, Andrew thought, and that was to shave his own hair off beforehand.
安德鲁是一位18岁的美国高中生，在今年春假期间，他被诊断出有骨肉瘤—一种长在发育中青少年膝盖附近的骨癌。为了对抗这种癌症，安德鲁得动手术移除他右腿的腓骨，并且要进行化学治疗。不幸地，化学治疗会让人掉头发。安德鲁认为，到时只有一件事可以做，那就是事先剃掉自己的头发。
Word of Andrew’s decision ___5___ school and a few friends also decides to shave their head in solidarity. The few soon became ___6___. “If he can’t have hair, why should we,” said one senior. Most of the students who shaved their heads were good friends of Andrew or fellow soccer players, but some were people he ___7___ knew. “It really shows how ___8___ people in the school are,” said one junior.
安德鲁的决定传遍了校园，几位朋友亦决定一起剃掉头发，这几位很快变成了数十位。一位高三生说:「如果他不能保有头发，我们何必要有?」大多数剃头的学生是安德鲁的好朋友或足球队队友，但有一些他几乎不认识。一位高二生说:「这显示了整个学校有多么团结。」
Andrew now is recovering from his operation and learning to live with only one good leg. It’s a ___9___ adjustment but he refuses to let it get him down. And no matter what, he knows he doesn’t have to face his ordeal ___10__ -- not with friends like his.
安德鲁现已做完手术正复原当中，并学习以仅有的一条健全的腿生活。这是一个艰难的调适过程，但是他拒绝让它给击倒。无论如何他知道不必单独面对这种严酷的考验了—有这样的朋友是不用单独面对这种考验的。
－By Robert Kelly
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(A) alone |
(B) fall out |
(C) willing |
(D) got around |
(E) diagnosed |
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(F) unified |
(G) tough |
(H) barely |
(I) surgery |
(J) dozens |
Vocabulary
bald [bɔld] adj. 秃头的
beforehand [bɪˋfor͵hænd] 预先，事先
solidarity [͵sɑləˋdærətɪ] n. 团结一致
adjustment [əˋdʒʌstmənt] n. 调节; 调整
unified [ˋjunə͵faɪd] adj. 统一的
tough [tʌf] adj. 困难的
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when push comes to shove: 紧要关头来临时 when things get a little pressed; when the situation gets more active or intense
osteosarcoma [͵ɑstɪosɑ'komə]n. 骨肉瘤
deal with 对待, 处理
fibula [ˋfɪbjələ] n. 腓骨
go for 选择, 宁要
chemotherapy [͵kɛmoˋθɛrəpɪ] n. 化学疗法
shave [ʃev] v. 剃去……上的毛发；刮
get sb down (使)沮丧; 打倒某人
no matter what 不管什么; 无论如何
ordeal [ɔrˋdiəl] n. 嚴峻考驗；苦難
Answer
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1. ( C ) |
2. ( E ) |
3. ( I ) |
4. ( B ) |
5. ( D ) |
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6. ( J ) |
7. ( H ) |
8. ( F ) |
9. ( G ) |
10. ( A ) |