1. (2021九上·杭州开学考) 完形填空

My friend Michelle is blind, but you'd never know it. She makes such good use of her other senses, including her “sixth sense”, that she hardly gives the impression that she 1anything.

Michelle looks after her children pretty much like the rest of us, 2that she doesn't put too much pressure on them. She knows when to clean the house, and she moves around 3 fast that the strangers often don't realize she's blind.

I realized this the first time after my six-year-old daughter, Kayla, went to play there. When Kayla came home, she was very 4 about her day.  She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was especially excited about5 finger-painting project.

“Mom, guess what?” said Kayla, all smiles. “I learned how to6 colors today! For example, blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle painted with us.” To my great7, my child had learned about color from a blind friend! Then Kayla continued, “Michelle told me my 8 showed joy, pride and a sense of success. She really9 what I was doing!” Kayla said she had never felt how interesting the finger-paints were10 Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.

I realized Kayla didn't know that Michelle was blind. It had just never11 in  conversation. When I told my daughter that Michelle was blind, she was quiet for a moment. At first, she didn't believe me. “But Mommy, Michelle knew exactly12was in  my  picture!”  Kayla insisted. And I knew my child was13 because Michelle had listened to Kayla describe her art work. Michelle had also heard Kayla's pride in her14 excitedly.

We were silent for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did 'see' my picture. She just used my15.”

Indeed, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.