Section_ⅠWarming Up & Reading - Pre­reading

　　MARTY'S STORY

　　Hi, my name is Marty Fielding and I guess you could say that I am "one in a million①". In other words②， there are not many people like me. You see, I have a muscle disease which makes me very weak, so I can't run or climb stairs as quickly as other people. In addition③， sometimes I am very clumsy④ and drop things or bump⑤ into furniture⑥. Unfortunately, the doctors don't know how to make me better, but I am very outgoing⑦ and have learned to adapt to⑧ my disability. My motto⑨ is: live one day at a time⑩ .

　　Until I was ten years old I was the same as everyone else. I used to⑪ climb trees, swim and play football. In fact, I used to dream about playing professional football and possibly representing⑫ my country in the World Cup. Then I started to get weaker and weaker⑬ , until I could only enjoy football from a bench⑭ 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 one⑮in which they cut out⑯ a piece of muscle from my leg and looked at it under a microscope⑰ . Even after all that, no one could give my disease a name and it is difficult to know what the future holds⑱.

　　One problem is that I don't look any different from other people⑲. So sometimes some children in my primary school would laugh, when I got out of breath⑳ after running a short way or had to stop and rest halfway up the stairs. Sometimes, too, I was too weak to go\s\up1(21(21) to school so my education suffered\s\up1(22(22). Every time\s\up1(23(23) I returned after an absence\s\up1(24(24)， I felt stupid because I was behind the others.

①one in a million百万人中才有一个

②in other words换句话说

③in addition另外；还有

④clumsy /'klʌmzI/ adj.笨拙的

⑤bump /bʌmp/ vi.碰撞；撞击

bump into撞上

⑥furniture n．[U]家具

⑦outgoing /'aʊtgəʊIŋ/ adj.外向的；友好的；外出的；离开的

⑧adapt to适合

adapt /ə'dæpt/ vt.使适应；改编

⑨motto n．箴言；格言

⑩at a time 一次，每次

⑪used to 过去常常

⑫represent vt.代表；展示；描绘

⑬比较级＋and＋比较级"越来越......"

⑭bench /bentʃ/ n．长凳

⑮in which they cut out ...是"in＋which"引导的定语从句，which指代one (test)。

⑯cut out切去；省略；停止(做某事)

⑰microscope /'maIkrəskəʊp/ n．显微镜

⑱it is difficult to know what ...中，it是形式主语，动词不定式是真正的主语，在不定式短语中包含what引导的宾语从句。

⑲that引导表语从句，that起连接作用，不充当句子成分。

⑳out of breath上气不接下气

\s\up1(21(21)too weak to go 是too ... to结构，意为"太......而不能......"。

\s\up1(22(22)suffer v．变差；受难，受苦；遭受；蒙受

\s\up1(23(23)every time意为"每次......的时候；每当......的时候"，作连词用，引导时间状语从句，从句也可以置于主句之后。

\s\up1(24(24)absence /'æbsəns/ n．缺席；不在某处