One determined student stepped off the traditional job for blind people in China, and now challenges a new life at university in Britain. Being a message therapist （按摩师）is a perfect job for many people with a visual disability, but for Zheng Jianwei, it was far from enough.
The 30-year-old former massage therapist gave up his hospital job in 2009to prepare for admission to graduate school. He took IELTS（雅思考试）, the language-fluency test necessary for university admission in the UK, in 2012 and scored 6.5 points. He was the first blind examinee to take the IELTS in the Southeast Chinese region. After about four year’s struggles, Zheng successfully gain an offer from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and became a graduate student.
However,Zheng’s path to graduate school was not easy. “I can’t take China’s national entrance exam for graduate school, which doesn’t provide study material（材料）for blind students,” he says.
He then turned to search for graduate school overseas. However, English became his nightmare. Zheng studied in special schools for visually challenged students since primary school, but foreign language was never a main subject.
Before giving up his job and learning English again in 2009, Zheng only knew the alphabet, a few words and some basic expressions. “Learning English again in my late 20s is not easy,” he says.
It took him three years of intensive study to gain entrance to a graduate school overseas. Because of the lack of study material, Zheng needs to spend hours and days looking for textbooks for the visually disabled and copying them, while it may take only five minutes for a sighted person to order a plain English textbook from Amazon.
In his parents’ eyes, Zheng has been a sensible, independent and decisive man from a young age. Zheng made all the major decisions by himself, including studying abroad and choosing majors. “We just follow his decisions, ” the mother says.
【小题1】According to the first paragraph, a blind person in China is likely to . A．go abroad for graduate schoolB．work as a message therapistC．be far from pleased with lifeD．enjoy a perfect job【小题2】It can be learned from the passage that the blind students in China .A．can’t take the national entrance exam to collegeB．can find less study material than normal studentsC．can never learn a foreign language wellD．can’t afford the English textbooks for an entrance exam【小题3】Which of the following can match Zheng Jianwei’s story?A．All mankind is created equal.B．Many hands make light work.C．Rome is not built in a day.D．Nothing is impossible when mind is set.【小题4】It can be inferred from the passage that Zheng’s .A．parents have to follow any of his decisionsB．parents don’t understand or care about himC．visual disability meant a hopeless damage to himD．mind is healthy though physically disabledB
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(答案→)B
解析：文章大意：文章讲述了一位30岁盲人放弃按摩师的工作，克服各种困难，通过自己的努力考进英国著名大学研究生。
【小题1】B细节理解题。根据第一段Being a message therapist （按摩师）is a perfect job for many people with a visual disability, but for Zheng Jianwei, it was far from enough.得知，郑建伟是一位按摩师。故B正确。
【小题2】B推理判断题。根据文章第三段However, Zheng’s path to graduate school was not easy. “I can’t take China’s national entrance exam for graduate school, which doesn’t provide study material（材料）for blind students,” he says.可以得出答案。故B正确。
【小题3】D推理判断题。文章讲述了盲人郑建伟的励志故事，告诉我们：只要下定决心，没有什么事不可能的。故D正确。
【小题4】D推理判断题。文章讲述了一位30岁盲人放弃按摩师的工作，克服各种困难，通过自己的努力考进英国著名大学研究生。说明了郑建伟虽然身残但志不残。故D正确。