I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of 1 and what color red is. It would be 2 to see again, but a(n) 3 can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would 4 to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had 5.
My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a 6 to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with 7.
The 8 lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of 9 that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I 10 something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being 11, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this confidence. It had to start with the easy and simple things. 12 a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was 13. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words 14 in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could 15 where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought 16 before playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I 17 a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my 18. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was 19 out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, 20 on the average I made progress.
1.

A.sky

B.cloud

C.sunshine

D.mist

2.

A.helpful

B.wonderful

C.hopeful

D.successful

3.

A.disaster

B.environment

C.incident

D.wonder

4.

A.manage

B.try

C.want

D.prefer

5.

A.lost

B.left

C.used

D.cared

6.

A.purpose

B.potential

C.pressure

D.preparation

7.

A.energy

B.happiness

C.luck

D.blindness

8.

A.hardest

B.dullest

C.simplest

D.easiest

9.

A.self-respect

B.self-control

C.self-confidence

D.self-defence

10.

A.think

B.consider

C.guess

D.mean

11.

A.imperfect

B.perfect

C.unfair

D.fair

12.

A.Later

B.Soon

C.Once

D.Then

13.

A.worried

B.encouraged

C.shocked

D.hurt

14.

A.stuck

B.impressed

C.occupied

D.held

15.

A.see

B.hear

C.notice

D.observe

16.

A.important

B.unimportant

C.possible

D.impossible

17.

A.invented

B.discovered

C.instructed

D.directed

18.

A.experience

B.advantages

C.knowledge

D.limitation

19.

A.hardly

B.wildly

C.highly

D.deeply

20.

A.so

B.for

C.but

D.and

试题答案

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本文讲述一位盲人因一次意外事故失明后如何克服困难，重新定位自己，取得人生价值的故事

1.词语搭配，根据brightness可知，此处讲的是阳光的明媚，明亮

2.句意理解，如果能再次看到将会是非常棒的。

3.上下文，此处指的就是上文提到的失去眼睛的一次事故，对他来说就是一场灾难。

4.句意理解，但是一场灾难会对人造成奇怪的影响，我并不是说我更喜欢看不见东西，我只是说，失去了双眼让我更加懂得欣赏/感激我所剩下的。

5.同上

6.句意理解，我的老师和父母都看到我生存下来的可能性，purpose目的 pressure压力preparation准备，

7.上下文，根据上文可知，作者失去了双眼，因此他是瞎的，

8.句意理解，我要学习的第一课就是要相信自己，我并不是仅仅说那种自信。

9.上下文，根据上文的believe in myself可知，此处讲的是自信，

10.句意理解，我说的不仅仅是从不熟悉的楼梯上下楼的那种自信，我意思是比那个更大一些的东西

11.上下文，根据上文可知，作者是一个盲人，一次是一个不完美的人

12.句意理解，此处是作者在讲一件事情，一次一个人给 了我一个室内棒球。

13.上下文，根据上一句的I thought he was laughing at me可知，作者认为那人在嘲笑他，因此他很受伤

14.词组，stick in 一位插入，此处一位他的话深深地印在了我的心中。

15.上下文，因为作者是一个盲人，因此他判断球在哪里只能靠听

16.句意理解，这给了我一种想法，我可以实现我以前认为不可能的一些目标

17.上下文，根据后文的a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball可知，这是一种全新的，他们自己命名的，因此是他发明的、。

18.句意理解，我要清楚我的局限性，指的是作者眼睛看不见

19.句意理解，我明白了，对于那些从开始就得不到的东西，哭是没有用的，wildly意为非常

20.句意理解，不管怎样，我会在某件事情上失败的，但是总的来说，我还是进步了