普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语选修7 Unit 1 Reading and writing task

　　At the age of 25, Zhang Yuncheng achieved his ambition to write and publish a book. Having a book published is a great achievement for anyone, but Zhang Yuncheng's success is particularly special. Yuncheng went to school for only one day and he did not start learning to read until he was 12 years old. Even more amazing, every character the young author writes causes him pain.

　　Yuncheng has a disease which affects the muscles in his body. His parents first noticed there was something wrong with their son when he was just three years old. By the time he was seven, the boy could neither run nor jump. He could only walk. On his first day of school, Yuncheng had to watch the other students as they ran around at lunchtime. That day he caught a cold and his parents decided not to send him back to school. So Yuncheng stayed at home and over the years his condition got worse and worse. By the time he was 16 he could not walk at all, by 18 he couldn't get out of bed without help, and by the time he was 20 he could not lift his arms above his head. Yuncheng's whole world became his family and what he could see out of the window near his bed. Every movement he made caused him pain.

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