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2019年高三英语上学期摸底试题 40 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分分） A After aterrible electrical accident, which caused him to bee both blind and deaf, the whole world became pletely dark and quiet for Robert Edwards for almost ten years. The loss of sight and hearing threw him into such sorrow that he tried afew times to put an end to his life. His family, especially his wife, did their best to tend and fort him and finally he regained the will to live. One hot summer afternoon, he was taking awalk with astick near his house when athunderstorm started all at once. He stood under alarge tree to avoid getting wet, but he was struck by the lightning. Witnesses thought he was dead but he woke up some 20 minutes later lying face down in muddy water at the base of the tree. He was trembling badly, but when he opened his eyes, he could hardly believe what he saw: aplough and awall. When Mrs. Edwards came running up to him, shouting to their neighbors to call for help, he could see her and hear her voice for the first time in nearly ten years. The news of Robert regaining his sight and hearing quickly spread, and many doctors came to examine him. Most of them said that he regained his sight and hearing from the shock he got from the lightning. However, none of them could give aconvincing answer as to why this should have happened. The only reasonable explanation given by one doctor was that, since Robert