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
_____ and what color red is. It would be _____ to see again, but a (n) ____ can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would ____ to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had ____.
My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a ____ to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with ___.
The _
___ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of ____ that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I __
___ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being __
__, 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. __
___ a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was ____. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words _____ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could _
___ where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought _
__ before; playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I _
__ 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
___. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was ____ out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, __
___ on the average I made progress.
| 小题1: | | A．sky | B．cloud | C．sunshine | D．mist |
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| 小题2: | | A．helpful | B．wonderful | C．hopeful | D．successful |
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| 小题3: | | A．disaster | B．environment | C．incident | D．wonder |
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| 小题4: | | A．manage | B．try | C．want | D．prefer |
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| 小题5: | | A．lost | B．left | C．used | D．cared |
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| 小题6: | | A．purpose | B．potential | C．pressure | D．preparation |
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| 小题7: | | A．energy | B．happiness | C．luck | D．blindness |
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| 小题8: | | A．hardest | B．dullest | C．simplest | D．easiest |
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| 小题9: | | A．self-respect | B．self-control | C．self-confidence | D．self-defence |
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| 小题10: | | A．think | B．consider | C．guess | D．mean |
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| 小题11: | | A．imperfect | B．perfect | C．unfair | D．fair |
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| 小题12: | | A．Later | B．Soon | C．Once | D．Then |
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| 小题13: | | A．worried | B．encouraged | C．shocked | D．hurt |
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| 小题14: | | A．stuck | B．impressed | C．occupied | D．held |
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| 小题15: | | A．see | B．hear | C．notice | D．observe |
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| 小题16: | | A．important | B．unimportant | C．possible | D．impossible |
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| 小题17: | | A．invented | B．discovered | C．instructed | D．directed |
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| 小题18: | | A．experience | B．advantages | C．knowledge | D．limitation |
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| 小题19: | | A．hardly | B．wildly | C．highly | D．deeply |
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