阅读理解(任务型阅读) 1.【xx年山东省青岛市】阅读下面的短文,并根据短文后的要求答题。(请注明问题后的字数要求) [1] I’m a 34-year-old man, married, lived in a nice house, and have a successful career. But my life was not always so great. I had a learning disability from an early age. I went to a special school where I got plenty of extra (额外的) help. Still, I suffered the rest of my school days in public schools. [2] My life improved greatly when I discovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words. I went to a workshop and gradually became good at making things with clay. Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled as I was in language, I could still be smart and well express myself with clay. And my confidence(自信)came along. [3] I got my next lesson from rock climbing. It was a fun thing but I was scared from the start. (68)I soon noticed it wasn’t a talent thing; it needed lots of practice. So I did it more. After about five years of climbing, I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that if you fall in love with something and do it all the time, you will get better at it. [4] Later I decided to learn (69) ① to read and write. I practiced reading and(69)② , which I used to avoid as much as possible. After two years, I was literate(有文化的). [5] Through the long process with art, (69) ③ , and reading and writing, now I’ve got to a point in my life: I am smart enough to dive into (潜入) an area that is totally unknown, hard, but interesting. 46. What made the writer’s school days difficult? (No more than 5 words) _________________________________________________________ 47. Why did art give the author confidence? (No more than 11 words) _________________________________________________________ 48. Translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into Chinese. _________________________________________________________ 49. Fill in the blanks in the last two paragraphs with proper words. ①__________________ ②___________