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According to the passage one of the things which encouraged Helen's parents to think positively about their daughter's future was

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   reports of Anne Mansfield Sullivan's successes with similar children
   
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   an account by Charles Dickens of the assistance another blind and deaf girl received
   
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   the way Alexander Graham Bell had partially recovered from blindness
   
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   the invention of Braille by Alexander Graham Bell in 1887
   
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   that her deafness and blindness were only partial
   

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   Anne Mansfield Sullivan is described in the passage as Helen's teacher and
   

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   the inventor of Braille
   
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   faithful companion
   
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   the subject of a report by Charles Dickens
   
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   distant relative
   
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   a student of Alexander Graham Bell
   

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   From the information in the passage, we know that Helen Adams Keller.
   

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   was overjoyed about being able to communicate with others
   
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   was blind and deaf when she was born
   
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   was almost blind when she was born but partially regained her sight later
   
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   took a shorter time than most students to learn the manual alphabet
   
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   was disappointed by the slow progress she made under the instruction of Sullivan
   

146 DANIEL DEFOE
The author of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, was born into a family who were Dissenters*, people who did not believe in certain practices of the Church of England. Young Daniel was brought up in the strict yet independent beliefs of the Dissenters. At 14 he was sent to a Dissenters' academy. In addition to the traditional Latin and Greek, he studied French, Italian, Spanish, and history and became especially well-educated in geography. He studied for the ministry, but instead of becoming a priest, in 1685 he went into business. Engaged in foreign trade, he visited France and lived in Spain for a time. Meanwhile he was writing and speculating financially, but Defoe was more interested in writing than in conducting business. His lively mind was taken up with problems of the day. In pamphlets, verse and periodicals, he called for reforms and advances in religious practices, economics, social welfare and politics. In his "Essay on Projects", he suggested a national bank, as well as ideas to help reform bankruptcy laws, asylums and academies of learning. He stressed the need for tolerance, often using satire for emphasis. In 1702 he wrote a pamphlet titled "The Shortest Way with Dissenters", satirizing the persecution of Dissenters. The government arrested him. After some months in prison, he was released through the influence of Robert Harley, a statesman who became his patron. In 1704, Defoe started The Review, a periodical. It was the first of many such periodicals with which Defoe was connected-forerunners of the modern newspaper. As people of that era did not care for fiction, Defoe wrote "true histories" of pirates and thieves, spicing facts with his own imagination. In 1719 he published Robinson Crusoe, which was drawn from the experiences and memoirs of a British sailor, Alexander Selkirk.

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