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操作提示：通过下拉选项框选择正确的词汇。
On May 27, 1995, our life was suddenly changed. It happened a few minutes past three, when my husband, Chris, fell from his horse as it jumped over a fence. Chris was paralyzed (瘫痪) from the chest down, to breathe normally. As he was thrown from his horse, we entered into a life of disability with lots of unexpected challenges. We went from the “haves” to the “have-nots”. Or so we thought.
Yet what we discovered later were all the gifts that came out of sharing difficulties. We came to learn that something could happen in a disaster. All over the world people cared for Chris so much that letters and postcards poured in every day. By the end of the third week in a medical center in Virginia, about 35,000 pieces of had been received and sorted. As , we opened letter after letter. They gave us comfort and became a source of strength for us. We use them to encourage ourselves. I would go to the pile of letters marked with “funny” if we need a laugh, or to the “disabled” box to find advice from people in wheelchairs or even in bed living happily and . These letters, we realized, had to be shared. And so here we offer one of them to you.
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答案：1. unable2. wonderful 3. mail 4. a family 5. successfully
解析：
1. 这是考核词义辨析和对上下文的理解。根据上下文，应该选unable。该句意思是“Chris胸部以下瘫痪，无法正常呼吸。”
2. 这是考核词义辨析和对上下文的理解。根据上文意思，可以推断wonderful是正确答案。该句意思是“我们逐渐认识到灾难中有可能出现一些美好的事情。”
3. 这是考核词义辨析和对上下文的理解。根据短文意思，mail“邮件”是正确答案。
4. 这是考核词义辨析和对上下文的理解。根据短文意思和一般常识，可以推断选项a family“家人”是正确答案。
5. 从上下句意思可知，作者是从那些坐轮椅的或者是躺在床上的并且过得幸福的人寻求建议。这四个答案successfully的意思是“成功地”，bitterly的意思是“悲痛地”，weakly的意思“虚弱地”。只有 successfully的意思能和happily并列，所以答案是successfully。