I was born disabled. A difficult birth, feet first, my head stuck. By my first birthday, I couldn't stand or walk.
When I was three, the doctor said I had cerebral palsy (脑瘫). A loss of oxygen to my brain has destroyed brain signals to the right side of my body.
But no son of my dad's was going to be disabled. Every morning before breakfast and every evening before bed, my dad placed me on the bedroom floor to exercise my right leg. Back and forth, up and down, my dad pushed and pulled the muscles (肌肉) into shape.
But my dad's exercise of love didn't stop there. For my 13th birthday, he threw me a special party. When everybody was gone, he brought me to open a large box; it was a set of boxing gloves. We put them on. My dad kept on beating me hard. Each time I tried to get up, the gloves kissed my nose and eyes. I asked him to stop. He said he beat me to get me ready for the tough world.
That same year, I was the only kid in my neighborhood that wasn't picked for Little League. Two weeks later, Dad decided to teach me how to become a football player himself and we began to practice.
The power of my dad's love made it possible for me to walk and do other things like a normal child. In high school, I became a football master.
In 1997, a brain doctor told me I didn't have cerebral palsy at all. He explained how and where the doctor's forceps (镊子) at birth had damaged my brain.
My dad never knew the whole truth since he had passed away years before. But that's not important; because of his love and madness, I'm no longer disabled.
1. What caused the author's disability?
A: Failed operation.
B: The doctor's forceps.
C: An accident in a game.
D: Too much practice.
2. What do we learn from the passage?
A: The author has a talent for boxing.
B: The author became a basketball star with the help of his father.
C: The author achieved a lot because of his father's love.
D: The author doesn't think his father should be so strict with him
3. Paragraph 3 suggests that the author's father .
A: wouldn't give up hope easily
B: didn't give his son any love
C: blamed (责备) the doctors for his son's disability
D: did nothing but accept the fact that his son was disabled
4. The author wrote the passage to .
A: give advice to the parents of disabled children
B: encourage disabled children
C: show life can be very hard for a disabled child
D: remember his father
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