In 1809，Louis Braille was born in a small town in France.At the age of three，Louis hurt one of his own eyes by accident.Before long，the（1）

C

C

spread to his second eye.And a short time later，Louis could not see and became blind.
   Although Louis was blind，he went to school with children who could see.There he learned by（2）

C

C

.But after two years，his parents took him（3）

B

B

school.They thought that there weren't anything for him to learn at school.
   Louis's parents thought it was hard for the blind to live in a small town and he would （4）

D

D

on the street.So they moved Louis from his small town to the big city when he was ten.His parents sent him to a school for（5）

B

B

boys in Paris，F(xiàn)rance.It was one of the first schools for blind people in the world.Louis got many（6）

A

A

at this school，like making chairs.He also learned how to read.At that time，blind people read by feeling the raised letters on the paper.
   But the letters were（7）

B

B

to read，because too many letters felt the same.It's not easy to find out the differences among those letters.So Louis wanted to find a better way.Over a few years，he tried to（8）

A

A

a different touch system（系統(tǒng)）for reading and writing.He used six dots（圓點(diǎn)） instead of twelve to form each letter.It allowed a person's fingertip to feel the whole symbol without having to move.This（9）

C

C

let blind people read much faster and easier.
   Today we call this form of written language Braille.Louis Braille died in 1852，but his form of written communication（10）

D

D

.

（1）	A．loneliness	B．kindness	C．illness	D．business
（2）	A．a(chǎn)cting	B．reading	C．listening	D．writing
（3）	A．back to	B．out of	C．into	D．a(chǎn)way to
（4）	A．look up	B．put up	C．turn up	D．end up
（5）	A．a(chǎn)wful	B．blind	C．brave	D．careful
（6）	A．a(chǎn)bilities	B．a(chǎn)ctions	C．decisions	D．mistakes
（7）	A．a(chǎn)nnoying	B．hard	C．interesting	D．easy
（8）	A．develop	B．discover	C．count	D．consider
（9）	A．exercise	B．deal	C．difference	D．service
（10）	A．puts on	B．takes on	C．walks on	D．lives on