Stephen HawkingBeethoven Helen Keller Zhang Haidi Kwan-yin of 1,000 handsThe biggest winner of 2005 CCTV gala show Discussion Should disabled students be allowed to go to university? Should they get any extra help? Why or why not? Unit 17 Reading Disabled? Not me! Skimming (True or False)1. Zhong Xiaowen doesn’t wish to be treated as a little child.2. Xiaowen’s story serves as an example to show that physical disabilities can limit a person’s life.3. All the students in the Beijing Union University are disabled.4. Literature of Chinese Blind Children is a great help in encouraging blind children to overcome difficulties and challenges.5. In 2000 Ye Zijie was invited to London and became the first Chinese to study abroad. (Reading Comprehension ) 1. The text is mainly about_______.A.What makes people disabledB.How the disabled live a normal lifeC.What is to be done to assist disabled peopleD.How physical disabilities limit a person’s lifeScanning 2. By the first sentence in Para 1, Zhong Xiaowen really wants to mean that_____.A. Her classmates actually look down upon herB. She wants to be treated as an independent personC. Disabled students suffer much more hardships.D. She has grown into an adult and is no longer a child 3. What can be learned from Xiaowen’s success from Para 2?A.Most of the disabled are gifted.B.The disabled need proper opportunities and support.C.Physical disabilities have no effect on people’s life.D.People should change their attitudes towards the disabled. 4. The disabled ,in the author’s opinion , need all EXCEPT________.A.recognition B.sympathy and help C. discrimination D. inspiration and encouragement 5. “…he became the first visually impaired Chinese to study abroad.” (Para.5) The underlined word in the sentence means______.A.disabled B.gifted C.unfortunateD.lucky 6. We can infer from the text that ____.A.The disabled are useless B.We should look down upon the disabled C. The disabled can do something as well as or better than normal people D. There is no opportunity for the disabled to make a contribution to society Discussion What can you learn from them?And what can we do to help them? Every man is the master of his own fortune. — R. Steels
