【课堂新坐标】（教师用书）2013-2014 学年高中英语 Unit 1 Living wel 教案 新人教版选修 7【美文阅读】Just your average teenager who happens to be bald没有长着一头秀发的邻家女孩女孩都幻想长着一头秀发，可现实生活中有些人就没有…… 但我与众不同，我骄傲！2009 ， Olivia received the Power of Children award( 最 优 秀 儿 童 奖 ) ． In 2010，she received the “Driven Like Danica” award from race car driver Danica Patrick.And last year，she received the “Well Dunn” award from Coach Lin Dunn of the Indiana Fever women's professional basketball team.Olivia Rusk has filled a lot of professional roles for someone who's only 14.She models.She makes inspiring speeches.She's a talkshow(脱口秀) host for Radio Disney.Now she has a selfpublished book，Just Your Average Teenager Who Happens to Be Bald，which will come out in February.With corporate sponsors(资助者)，she hopes to give 20,000 free copies to young people.Where does she get her motivation( 动 机 ) to do so many things? At least partly ， she owes it to her baldness.“Something that could have hurt me has actually given me so many opportunities that I would have never had ，” she says.Olivia has alopecia( 秃头症)．“Most people think I have cancer ，” she says，“which is totally fine.But I'm not sick or anything.”She decided early in her childhood—months after losing most of her hair—not to cover up her condition.“When I was 8 years old，I got a custom wig(假发)，” she says.“No one knew I was bald.It looked completely natural.But one day I woke up and said，‘Mom，I'm not wearing my wig to school.I want people to know the real me.’”Her mom daily admires her daughter's courage.“She's one of the strongest and most determined people I've known，” Sandy Rusk say...
