номер 1, страница 80 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс рабочая тетрадь Комарова, Ларионова

Unit seven. Extra voices. Exercise two.

In nineteen o four, Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to graduate from university.

It was an an amazing achievement for an amazing woman.

When Helen was a baby, she became very ill. The illness did not last a long time, but when she recovered, her parents realized that she had lost her sight and her hearing.

Her parents were convinced she would never be able to communicate with them.

However, an encounter with a woman called Anne Sullivan changed Helen's life forever.

Anne Sullivan was born with very poor sight. She wasn't blind, but she could see very little.

Twenty-one-year-old Anne became Helen's teacher, although she had no experience of teaching deaf-blind children.

Within weeks of their first lesson, six-year-old Helen learnt the sign for her first word, water.

A few hours later, Helen could recognize the signs for thirty new words, including teacher.

This was the start of a lifelong friendship that would continue until Anne's death in nineteen thirty-six.

Helen achieved many things during her life. She graduated from Radcliffe College, wrote many books, and travelled the world raising money for the blind.

Helen was also a political enthusiast and in nineteen thirteen, she wrote a series of essays on socialism, which outlined her own political views.

Despite Helen's success in overcoming her disabilities, her greatest dream of being able to talk was never achieved.

However, Helen Keller is truly a person who succeeded against the odds.