1. "Misfortune" means a difficult encounter and an unfortunate fate.

2. What kind of bad luck did Helen encounter?

Answer: An unexpected serious illness turned Helen into a deaf and blind disabled person.

She couldn't hear her mother's soft lullaby, and she couldn't see her father's kind face.

There was boundless darkness before her eyes, and a terrifying silence like death in her ears.

3.

Contract the sentences and explain what is good about the writing of the original sentences in the essay.

There was boundless darkness before her eyes, and a terrifying silence like death in her ears.

Abbreviation: There is darkness in front of my eyes and silence in my ears.

The good thing about the original sentence is that it describes Helen's visual and auditory defects.

Using the adjectives "endless" and "as terrifying as death", Helen's pain is described.

4. Give two examples to briefly explain how her parents worked so hard to raise Helen to adulthood.

What can you feel from it?

Answer: ﹙1﹚Take her to a famous ophthalmologist for treatment.

﹙2﹚He spent huge sums of money to hire a tutor, hoping to find "light" for her.

From this I can feel the deep love of my parents.

5. A deaf-mute learned five languages, and the hard work she put in was "She learned to read Braille books with her fingers. When reading, her fingers kept moving like leaves in the breeze. Once she learned new words, she

Practice over and over again. Sometimes I am so fascinated by reading that I take the Braille book with me to read it after going to bed." There is a word in the article that accurately expresses this meaning. This word is "hard work".

6. Connect with the content of the essay to talk about Helen’s difficulties in learning a language.

Answer: To the surprise of the world, it was such a disabled person who was blind, deaf and mute who created a miracle in life.

Not only did she learn to read and speak, she also completed her studies at Harvard University's Radcliffe College with astonishing perseverance, becoming the first blind and deaf person in human history to receive a bachelor's degree in literature. Not only that, she also

She traveled around improving the working and living conditions of blind people in the United States and raising funds for the American Blind Foundation and the American Overseas Blind Foundation (now known as Helen Keller International). She created extraordinary achievements and received numerous honors.

Known as "the great idol of human willpower".