Two years ago, about a __1__ after Samantha was born, Glenda and Raphael Savitz learned their daughter was __2__. “She was the first deaf person my husband and I had known，” Glenda, 33, told The Boston Globe. “So it’s a surprise and it is __3__. But I think I’m someone who’s __4__： OK. What do we do? She’s a week old. We’re going to be learning sign language. There was no __5__ that it was going to be important to her development and her __6__．”
But the Savitz family weren’t the only ones who learned how to sign. Over 20 residents of their neighborhood in the town of Newton are __7__ learning sign language. The residents __8__ an instructor on their own and __9__ gather together in a living room to learn the language. The neighbors’ desire to learn to __10__ with Samantha is something that the Savitz family finds extremely __11__．
“One of the most emotional __12__ touching me is that I really learned about how much support and how much love there is here，” Glenda said. “People are __13__ so much time and energy to learn a(n) __14__ language because they’re dying to __15__ my little daughter. I don’t have __16__ for that.”
Baby Sam already has friends all over the neighborhood. Henry Marshall, a 19yearold Harvard freshman, told The Boston Globe that Samantha __17__ with her childsize basketball hoop __18__ he shoots hoops on his adultsize one. While he plays, she copies his movements and __19__ the words for “play” and “friend”．
“It’s a special neighborhood，” Raphael Savitz told The Boston Globe. “It’s just a really __20__ place.”
1．A.day B．week
C．year D．month
2．A.deaf B．blind
C．hurt D．dull
3．A.embarrassed B．awesome
C．unbearable D．unexpected
4．A.for B．against
C．like D．with
5．A.point B．chance
C．question D．possibility
6．A.work B．study
C．play D．growth
7．A.still B．also
C．yet D．never
8．A.hired B．sent
C．trained D．assisted
9．A.suddenly B．regularly
C．immediately D．randomly
10．A.share B．stay
C．associate D．communicate
11．A.interesting B．surprising
C．touching D．demanding
12．A.results B．issues
C．improvements D．experiences
13．A.looking for B．giving up
C．putting in D．relying on
14．A.oral B．foreign
C．local D．useless
15．A.talk to B．turn to
C．attend to D．adapt to
16．A.ideas B．words
C．choices D．suggestions
17．A.plays B．lives
C．helps D．deals
18．A.as B．unless
C．until D．because
19．A.writes B．reads
C．signs D．says
20．A.challenging B．important
C．usual D．welcoming
