27.根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容及首字母提示,填寫所缺單詞,使短文意思完整。每空限填一詞。 Sitting in her neighbour's yard in Hartford,Connecticut,nine-year-old Alice watched the children play games.From their faces,she could tell that they were laughing,but she couldn't hear their voices.Alice had been deaf (1)s
she was 2.The year was 1814.Unable to hear or talk,Alice didn't (2)a
school.At that time,there were no (3)t
to teach deaf children across America. One day,Thomas Gallaudet,one of Alice's neighbours, (4)n
that she wasn't playing with other kids.When he tried to speak to her,he soon (5)r
that she couldn't hear.Thomas felt very sad.He thought, "Why shouldn't Alice and (6)o
deaf children in the United States go to school?" Gallaudet decided to go to Europe to learn (7)a
schools for the deaf.After 15 months,he returned to Connecticut, (8)t
with Laurent Clerc,a teacher from a famous school for the deaf in Paris,F(xiàn)rance. Gallaudet and Clerc opened the country's (9)f
school for the deaf in 1817.There were 33 teachers and students at the very beginning, (10)i
Alice.They created the American Sign Language for the deaf as well.