Some people are just sure to be failures. That’s how some adults look at troublesome kids. Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “A bird with a broken wing will __50__ fly as high.” I’m sure that T.J. Ware, who was caught __51__ a year ago, was made to feel this way almost every day at school.
At high school, Ware was always making __52__. He didn’t answer questions, got into lots of fights and was __53__ from school at times. Teachers didn’t want to have him again the following year.
I met Ware for the first time at a meeting. All the students at school had been invited to __54__ for a program designed to have students become more active in their communities. The program __55__ group discussion and voluntary work in their neighborhoods.
In the beginning, Ware just stood by, not ready to join the discussion groups. But slowly, the interactive games __56__ him in… At the end of the meeting, he joined the Homeless Project team. He knew much about __57__, hunger and helplessness. The other students on the team had never seen Ware making such a long, moving speech. They were __58__ with his passionate concern and ideas, so they elected Ware to be chairman of the team with a __59__ vote.
Two weeks later, Ware led a group of 70 students to collect __60__. They collected a school __61__: 2,854 cans of food in just two hours. It was enough to feed needy families in the area for 75 days. The local newspaper __62__ the event with full-page article the next day. After that, Ware started showing up at school every day and answering questions from teachers.
Ware’s change __63__ us that a bird with a broken wing only needs mending. Once it has __64__, it can fly higher than the rest.
| 50. | A. sometimes | B. always | C. never | D. still |
| 51. | A. cold | B. stealing | C. lying | D. spitting |
| 52. | A. known | B. mistake | C. fun | D. trouble |
| 53. | A. absent | B. different | C. present | D. free |
| 54. | A. take up | B. make up | C. sign up | D. put up |
| 55. | A. contained | B. included | C. concluded | D. increased |
| 56. | A. took | B. caught | C. pulled | D. drew |
| 57. | A. poverty | B. fighting | C. robbery | D. courage |
| 58. | A. disappointed | B. surprised | C. impressed | D. bored |
| 59. | A. quantity | B. majority | C. minimum | D. quality |
| 60. | A. food | B. money | C. clothes | D. furniture |
| 61 | A. rule | B. mark | C. foundation | D. record |
| 62. | A. spread | B. covered | C. printed | D. wrote |
| 63. | A. requests | B. decides | C. reminds | D. requires |
| 64 | A. repaired | B. realized | C. protected | D. healed |