选修7 Unit 1 Living well(附译文)

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7 Unit 1 Living well-Reading

MARTY’S STORY

马蒂的故事

Hi,

my

name

is

Marry

Fielding

and

I

guess

you

could

say

that

I

am

in

a

million

disease which makes me very weak, so I can't run or climb stairs as quickly as other

people.

In

addition,

sometimes

I

am

very

clumsy

and

drop

things

or

bump

into

furniture. Unfortunately, the doctors don't know how to make me better, but I am very

outgoing and have learned to adapt to my disability. My motto is: live One day at a

time.

Until I was ten years old I was the same as everyone else. I used to climb trees,

swim and play football. In fact,

I used to dream

about playing professional football

and possibly representing my country in the World Cup. Then I started to get weaker

and weaker, until I could only enjoy football from a bench at the stadium. In the end I

went into hospital for medical tests. I stayed there for nearly three months. I think I

had at least a billion tests, including one in which they cut out a piece of muscle from

my leg and looked at it under a microscope. Even after all that, no one could give my

disease a name and it is difficult to know what the future holds.

One problem

is

that I don't

look

any different

from

other people. So sometimes

some

children

in

my

primary

school

would

laugh,

when

I

got

out

of

breath

after

running a short way or had to stop and rest halfway up the stairs. Sometimes, too, I

was too weak to go to school so my education suffered. Every time I returned after an

absence, I felt stupid because I was behind the others.

My life is a lot easier at high school because my fellow students have accepted me.

The few who cannot see the real person inside my body do not make me annoyed, and

I just ignore them. All in all I have a good life. I am happy to have found many things

I can do, like writing and computer programming. My ambition is to work for a firm

that

develops

computer

software

when

I

grow

up.

Last

year

invented

a

computer

football game and a big company has decided to buy it from me. I have a very busy

life with no time to sit around feeling sorry for myself. As well as going to the movies

and football matches with my friends, I spend a lot of time with my pets. I have two

rabbits, a parrot, a tank full of fish and a tortoise. To look after my pets properly takes

a lot of time but I find it worthwhile. I also have to do a lot of work, especially if I

have been away for a while.

In

many

ways

my

disability

has

helped

me

grow

stronger

psychologically

and

become more independent. I have to work hard to live a normal life but it has been

worth it. If I had a chance to say one thing to healthy children, it would be this: having

a

disability

does

not

mean

your

life

is

not

satisfying.

So

don't

feel

sorry

for

the

disabled or make fun of them, and don't ignore them either. Just accept them for who

they are, and give them encouragement to live as rich and full a life as you do.

Thank you for reading my story.

你好，

我叫马蒂·菲尔丁。我想你可 能会说我是“百万人中才

有一个”

的那种人。

< br>换句话说，

世界上像我这样的人并不多见。

你瞧，