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大思教育·英语课本倒背如流特训班 课文原文（高中·选修七） Unit 1 Living well Hi, my name is Marty Fielding and I guess you could say that I am “one in a million. ”In other words, there are not many people like me. You see, I have a muscle disease which makes me very weak, so I can’ t run or climb stairs as quickly as other people. In addition, sometimes I amvery clumsy and drop things or bumpinto furniture. Unfortunately, the doctors don’t know how to make me better, but I am very outgoing and have learned to adapt to my disability. My motto is: live one day at a time. Until I was ten years old I was the same as everyone else. I used to climb trees, swim and play football. In fact, I used to dream about playing professional football and possibly representing my country in the World Cup. Then I started to get weaker and weaker, until I could only enjoy football from a bench at the stadium. In the end I went into hospital for medical tests. I stayed there for nearly three months. I think I had at least a billion tests, including one in which they cut out a piece of muscle from my leg and looked at it under a microscope. Even after all that, no one could give my disease a nameand it is difficult to know what the future holds. One problem is that I don’t look any different from o ther people. sometimes some children in my primary school would laugh, when I got out  So of breath after running a short way or had to stop and rest halfway up the stairs. Sometimes I was too weak to go to school so my education suffered. Every time I returned after an absence, I felt stupid because I was behind the others. My life is a lot easier at high school because my fellow students have accepted me. The few who can not see the real person inside my body do not make meannoyed, and I just ignore them. All in all I have a good life. I am happy to have found many things I can do, like writing and computer programming. My ambition is to work for a firm that develops computer software when I grow