I went to a group activity， "Sensitivity Sunday”， which was to make us more __1___ the problems faced by disabled people. We were asked to "__2__ a disability”for several hours one Sunday. Some members， __3__， chose to use wheelchairs. Others wore sound-blocking earplugs (耳塞) or blindfolds (眼罩).
Just sitting in the wheelchair was a __4___ experience. I had never considered before how __5___ it would be to use one. As soon as I sat down， my __6___ made the chair begin to roll. Its wheels were not __7___。 Then I wondered where to put my __8___。 It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest into __9___。 I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of __10___ for several hours. For disabled people， "adopting a wheelchair” is not a temporary (临时的) __11___。
I tried to find a __12___ position and thought it might be restful， __13___ kind of nice， to be __14___ around for a while. Looking around， I __15___ I would have to handle the thing myself! My hands started to ache as __16___ the heavy metal wheels. I came to know that controlling the __17___ of the wheelchair was not going to be a(n) __18___ task.
My wheelchair experiment was soon ___19___。 It made a deep impression on me. A few hours of "disability” gave me only a taste of the __20___， both physical and mental， that disabled people must overcome.
发表于 2016-7-24 09:50:44