完型填空(2) A I went to a group activity, “Sensitivity Sunday”, which was to make us more ___1___ the problems faced by disabled people. We were asked to “___2___ a disability”for several hours one Sunday. Some members, ___3___, chose to use wheelchairs. Others wore soundblocking earplugs (耳塞) or blindfolds (眼罩). Just sitting in the wheelchair was a ___4___ experience. I had never considered before how ___5___ it would be to use one. As soon as I sat down, my ___6___ made the chair begin to roll. Its wheels were not ___7___. Then I wondered where to put my ___8___. It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest into ___9___. I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of ___10___ for several hours. For disabled people, “adopting a wheelchair” is not a temporary (临时的) ___11___. I tried to find a ___12___ position and thought it might be restful, ___13___ kind of nice, to be ___14___ around for a while. Looking around, I ___15___ I would have to handle the thing myself! My hands started to ache as I ___16___ the heavy metal wheels. I came to know that controlling the ___17___ of the wheelchair was not going to be a(n) ___18___ task. My wheelchair experiment was soon ___19___. It made a deep impression on me. A few hours of “disability” gave me only a taste of the ___20___, both physical and mental, that disabled people must overcome. |