Question

I was 15 months old, a happy kid, until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a piece of glass that cut my eye badly. My mom found a doctor who knew that if the eye were taken away, my face would look ugly, so my scarred (有疤痕的), sightless, cloudy gray eye lived on with me.

Sometimes people asked me embarrassing questions. When kids played games, 1. I grew up imagining that everyone looked down on me.

Yet Mom would say to me: “Hold your head up high and face the world.” 2.

As a child, I thought Mom meant, “Be careful or you will fall down or knock into something because you are not looking.” As a teenager, 3. But I found that when I held my head up high, people liked me.

In high school I even became monitor of my class, but on the inside I still felt like a monster. All I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would cry to my mom and she would look at me with loving eyes and say: “Hold your head up high and face the world. 4. ”

When I met the man who became my husband, we looked each other straight in the eye, and he told me I was beautiful inside and out.

My mom’s love was the spark (火花) that gave me confidence. I had faced trouble, and learned not only to appreciate myself but to have deep pity for others.

“Hold your head up high” has been heard many times in my home. I say it to my children. 5.

根据文章大意，请大家把下面五个句子还原到适当的位置。

A. I usually looked down to hide my shame (羞愧). B. Let them see the beauty that is inside. C. I was always the “monster”. D. The gift my mom gave me lives on in my children. E. I began to rely on(依赖) that saying.

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