托福阅读素材（三）

　　3:08

　　MK: Well, it was tough in the beginning. GG: What? What? Chicken. Chicken. Chicken.

　　3:14

　　MK: Yeah, that was it. For the first month, that was the extent of Gabby's vocabulary. For some reason, she has aphasia, which is difficulty with communication. She latched on to the word "chicken," which isn't the best but certainly is not the worst. (Laughter) And we were actually worried it could have been a lot worse than that. PM: Gabby, what's been the toughest challenge for you during this recovery?

　　3:42

　　GG: Talking. Really hard. Really.

　　3:47

　　MK: Yeah, with aphasia, Gabby knows what she wants to say, she just can't get it out. She understands everything, but the communication is just very difficult because when you look at the picture, the part of your brain where those communication centers are are on the left side of your head, which is where the bullet passed through.

　　4:06

　　PM: So you have to do a very dangerous thing: speak for your wife.

　　4:10

　　MK: I do. It might be some of the most dangerous things I've ever done.

　　4:16

　　PM: Gabby, are you optimistic about your continuing recovery -- walking, talking, being able to move your arm and leg?

　　4:25

　　GG: I'm optimistic. It will be a long, hard haul, but I'm optimistic.

　　4:33

　　PM: That seems to be the number one characteristic of Gabby Giffords, wouldn't you say? (Applause)

　　4:37

　　MK: Gabby's always been really optimistic. She works incredibly hard every day.

　　4:41

　　GG: On the treadmill, walked on my treadmill, Spanish lessons, French horn.

　　4:48

　　MK: It's only my wife who could be -- and if you knew her before she was injured, you would kind of understand this -- somebody who could be injured and have such a hard time communicating and meets with a speech therapist, and then about a month ago, she says, "I want to learn Spanish again."

　　5:06

　　PM: Well, let's take a little closer look at the wife, and this was even before you met Gabby Giffords.And she's on a motor scooter there, but it's my understanding that's a very tame image of what Gabby Giffords was like growing up.

　　5:21

　　MK: Yeah, Gabby, she used to race motorcycles. So that's a scooter, but she had -- well, she still has a BMW motorcycle.

　　5:29

　　PM: Does she ride it? MK: Well, that's a challenge with not being able to move her right arm, but I think with something I know about, Velcro, we might be able to get her back on the bike, Velcro her right hand up onto the handlebar.

　　5:46

　　PM: I have a feeling we might see that picture next, Gabby. But you meet, you're already decided that you're going to dedicate your life to service. You're going into the military and eventually to become an astronaut. So you meet. What attracts you to Gabby?

　　6:05

　　MK: Well, when we met, oddly enough, it was the last time we were in Vancouver, about 10 years ago. We met in Vancouver, at the airport, on a trip that we were both taking to China, that I would actually, from my background, I would call it a boondoggle. Gabby would — GG: Fact-finding mission.

　　6:26

　　MK: She would call it an important fact-finding mission. She was a state senator at the time, and we met here, at the airport, before a trip to China.

　　6:37

　　PM: Would you describe it as a whirlwind romance?

　　6:39

　　GG: No, no, no. (Laughter) A good friend.

　　6:46

　　MK: Yeah, we were friends for a long time.

　　6:48

　　GG: Yes. (Laughter)

　　6:53

　　MK: And then she invited me on, about a year or so later, she invited me on a date. Where'd we go, Gabby?

　　7:03

　　GG: Death row.