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I Am Helen Keller

source: 台灣測驗中心

我是海倫凱勒

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海倫‧凱勒生於1880年六月。她在一歲半的時候生了一場病,之後就再也看不見、也聽不著了。1887年時, 安‧蘇利文被聘為海倫的教師,開始教海倫經由手心拼字來學習英文。海倫在不到七歲時,就已經從一個無法與人溝通而經常發怒沮喪的小女孩變成一個求知若渴的人。她是第一位又聾又盲而能夠從大學畢業的人,後來成為一位家喻戶曉的作家。海倫病逝於1968年。


I am deaf and blind but my curiosity and determination blooms like spring.

I wonder what others think of me as I express myself by sign.

I hear myself; a raging, trapped soul of starved desire.

I see the world as texture, distance, and expressions.

I want to never let go visions of the future.

I am Helen Keller.


I pretend that I am a teacher, teaching others to say with language.

I feel joy and thrill when I discover an object or idea to learn.

I touch the sky in awe when I embrace the names of life.

I worry that I will fall to some place where I would be alone forever.

I cry when I imagine the despairing paths I might have strode.

I am Helen Keller.


I understand that there are others less fortunate than I.

I say that the only fearful limit is your own self.

I dream that I can bring freedom to others and contribute to the world.

I try to accept myself as unique and special.

I hope that I can make my teacher, my family, and friends... proud.

I am Helen Keller.


This 1888 photo released by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston shows Helen Keller when she was eight years old, left, holding hands with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, during a summer vacation to Brewster, Mass., on Cape Cod. A staff member at the society discovered the photograph in a large photography collection recently donated to the society. When Sullivan arrived at the Keller household to teach Helen, she gave her a doll as a present. Although Keller had many dolls throughout her childhood, this is believed to be the first known photograph of Helen Keller with one of her dolls. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Thaxter P. Spencer Collection, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society-Boston)

海倫凱勒8歲時的照片(左邊)與她的老師 安‧蘇利文合照。