Angela had a serious disease about her nervous system (神经系统). She was unable to walk and her 1 was affected in other ways. The doctors did not 2 much hope of her recovering from this illness. They forecast she would spend the rest of her life in a 3 and said that few were able to come back to normal after 4 this disease. However, the little girl was 5. She would tell others she was 6 going to be walking again someday.
She was sent to a rehabilitation hospital (康复医院) in San Francisco. Whatever treatments could be 7 to her disease were used. The doctors were 8 by her optimistic spirit. They taught her about 9 seeing herself walking. If it did nothing else, it would 10 give her hope and something positive to do in the long waking hours in her bed. Angela would work as hard as possible in physical treatment. She worked just as hard 11 there imagining herself moving, moving, moving!
One day, as she was trying hard to imagine her 12 moving again, it seemed 13 a miracle (奇迹) happened: The bed moved! It began to move around the room! She shouted out in14, “Look what I'm doing! Look! Look! I can do it! I moved, I moved!”
In fact, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake. At that 15 moment, everyone else in the hospital was shouting out, too, and running for 16. People were shouting, equipment was falling and glass was breaking. It was an earthquake. 17 they had no time to tell that to Angela. She was 18 that she did it.
Only a few years later, she was back in school! You see, anyone who can 19 San Francisco can 20 a disease, can't they?
