选修七Unit1 MARTY’S STORY 要点划出

选修七Unit1 MARTYS STORY马蒂的故事 Hi, my name is Marty Fielding and I guess you could say that I am one in a million.你好。我叫马蒂菲尔丁。我想你可能会说我是“百万人中才有一个”的那种人。In other words, there are not many people like me. 换句话说，世界上像我这样的人并不多见。 You see, I have a muscle disease which makes me very weak, so I cant run or climb stairs as quickly as other people. 你瞧，我的肌肉有毛病，使我的身体非常虚弱，所以我不能像别人那样快跑快步爬楼梯。 In addition, sometimes I am very clumsy and drop things or bump into furniture. 再说，有时候我还会笨手笨脚、不小心摔掉东西，或磕碰到家具上。Unfortunately, the doctors dont know how to make me better, but I am very outgoing and have learned to adapt to my disability. 不幸的是，大夫们不知道如何治好我的病，但是我很开朗乐观，学会了适应身体的残疾。My motto is: live one day at a time. 我的座右铭是：活好每一天。 Until I was ten years old I was the same as everyone else. 十岁以前，我跟其他人是一样的。I used to climb trees, swim and play football. 我常常爬树、游泳、踢足球。In fact, I used to dream about playing professional football and possibly representing my country in the World Cup. 说实在的，我过去常常梦想我会成为职业球员，代表我们的国家参加世界杯足球赛。Then I started to get weaker and weaker, until I could only enjoy football from a bench at the stadium. 后来，我的身体开始变得越来越虚弱，以至于只能坐在体育场的长凳上欣赏足球了。 In the end I went into hospital for medical tests. I stayed there for nearly three months. 最后我到医院去做了检查，几乎住了三个月的医院。I think I had at least a billion tests, including one in which they cut out a piece of muscle from my leg and looked at it under a microscope. 我想我至少做过十亿次检查，这还包括一次他们从我的大腿上切下一片肌肉放在显微镜下观察, Even after all that, no one could give my disease a name and it is difficult to know what the future holds. 也没人能够确诊这个病， 因此很难知道将来会是个什么样子。 One problem is that I dont look any different from other people. 问题是我看上去跟平常人一样。So sometimes some children in my primary school would laugh, when I got out of breath after running a short way or had to stop and rest halfway up the stairs. 因此，当我跑了很短的一段路之后，我就会喘不过气来，或者爬楼才爬到一半就得停下来休息。因此，上小学时有的孩子见了我这种情况就会笑话我。Sometimes, too, I was too weak to go to school so my education suffered. 有时候我的身体太虚弱上不了学，因此落了许多功课。 Every time I returned after an absence, I felt stupid because I was behind the others.每次缺课之后，我就觉得自己很笨，因为我比别人落后了。 My life is a lot easier at high school because my fellow students have accepted me. 我在中学时期的生活（比在小学时）要轻松多了，因为我的同学开始接受了我的状况。The few who cannot see the real person inside my body do not make me annoyed, and I just ignore them. 还有些同学看不到我的内心世界，但是我并不生气，只是不去理会他们罢了。 All in all I have a good life. 总而言之，我生活得挺好。 I am happy to have found many things I can do, like writing and computer programming. 我很高兴我能做许多事情，比如写作和电脑编程。 My ambition is to work for a firm that develops computer software when I grow up. 我有雄心壮志，长大后我要在开发电脑软件的公司里工作。Last year I invented a computer football game and a big company has decided to buy it from me. 去年我发明了一个电脑足球游戏，有一家大公司已经决定从我这儿买走。I have a very busy life with no time to sit around feeling sorry for myself. 我的生活很充实，没有时间闲坐着顾影自怜。As well as going to the movies and football matches with my friends, I spend a lot of time with my pets. 除了同我的朋友一起去看电影和足球比赛，我还花很多时间和我的宠物在一起。I have two rabbits, a parrot, a tank full of fish and a tortoise. 我有两只兔子、一只鹦鹉、一缸金鱼和一只乌龟。To look after my pets properly takes a lot of time but I find it worthwhile. 我得花大量时间来照顾这些宠物，但我觉得很值。 I also have to do a lot of work, especially if I have been away for a while.此外，我还有好多功课，特别是在病了一段时间之后。 In many ways my disability has helped me grow stronger psychologically and become more independent. 在许多方面，我身体的残疾倒使我心理上变得更加坚强、更加独立。I have to work hard to live a normal life but it has been worth it. 我必须努力工作才能过上正常的生活，但这是值得的。If I had a chance to say one thing to healthy children, it would be this: having a disability does not mean your life is not satisfying. 假如我有机会跟健康孩子讲一句话，那么，这句话就是：身体残疾并不意味着生活不美满。So dont feel sorry for the disabled or make fun of them, and dont ignore them either. 因此，不要感到残疾人可怜，或者取笑他们