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（III）文意選填（10%）：如為首字，請將第一個字母視為大寫。Braille is a system of raised dots, which enables blind people to read with the tips of their fingers. Its inventors was a blindFrench schoolboy, named Louis Braille.Louis Braille was born in 1809 in a small town near Paris. He was from a poor family and his father worked as the villagesaddler. At the age of three, he ___41___ his left eye with a stitching awl from his father’s workshop. This destroyed his left eye, andlater sympathetic ophthalmia led to loss of ___42___ in his right eye. Braille was completely blind by the age of four. Despite hisdifficult start in life, Louis was an intelligent boy and excelled at the local school. ___43___ his potential, the local landowner offeredto arrange a scholarship for Louis at one of the first schools for the blind. ___44___ to send Louis away from home but worried abouthis future, his parents agreed. Aged ten, Louis left for Paris to attend the Royal Institution for Blind Youth.It was at the Institute in 1821 ___45___ Louis was first introduced to the idea of using a coded system of raised dots. This was atactile system designed for soldiers to send and receive messages at night without speaking. Louis quickly realized how useful thissystem could be, but thought it was too ___46___. Over the next few years he worked hard to develop his own ___47___ of the code,using just six dots to represent the standard alphabet. He then spent his life teaching the system to as many people as possible.However, spending so much of his life in poor and damp conditions probably contributed to Louis Braille ___48___ tuberculosisin his twenties. He battled with the illness for the rest of his life. He died on January 6, 1852, just two days after his 43rd birthday,___49___ that his invention would one day be used all over the world. Today he is celebrated as a hero for all blind and partiallysighted people, for he gave the ___50___ of independence and the joy of reading to thousands of people around the world.
(A) noticing
(B) contracting
(C) injured
(D) version
(E) vision(AB) gift (AC) reluctant (AD) that (AE) unaware (BC) complicated
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參考答案

答案：C
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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