I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head.Now I am thirtytwo.I can ____ remember the brightness of sunshine and what red color is.It would be wonderful to see again, ____ a disaster can do strange things to people.
It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to ____ life as I do if I hadn't been blind. I believe in life now.I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, ____. I don't mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me ____ the more what I had left.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself.That was ____. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have ____ and become a chair rocker for the rest of my life.When I say ____ in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of selfconfidence that helps me down a(n) ____ staircase alone.That is part of it.But I mean something ____ than that: an assurance that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and ____ this assurance.It had to start with the most elementary things.Once 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 it with you；” he ____ 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 ____： playing baseball.At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I ____ a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of ____ and then tried to reach them, one at a time.I had to learn my ____. It was no good trying for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made ____.
| 小题1: | | A．entirely | B．nearly | | C．vaguely | D．simply |
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| 小题3: | | A．assess | B．fear | | C．enrich | D．love |
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| 小题4: | | A．otherwise | B．therefore | | C．however | D．besides |
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| 小题5: | | A．understand | B．appreciate | | C．possess | D．accept |
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| 小题6: | | A．enough | B．specific | | C．tough | D．basic |
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| 小题7: | | A．survived | B．escaped | | C．collapsed | D．sacrificed |
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| 小题8: | | A．hope | B．power | | C．courage | D．belief |
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| 小题9: | | A．unfamiliar | B．unbelievable | | C．unexpected | D．uncomfortable |
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| 小题10: | | A．harder | B．bigger | | C．warmer | D．heavier |
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| 小题11: | | A．weaken | B．strengthen | | C．sharpen | D．brighten |
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| 小题12: | | A．upset | B．flattered | | C．ashamed | D．hurt |
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| 小题13: | | A．urged | B．promised | | C．convinced | D．advised |
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| 小题14: | | A．flashed | B．appeared | | C．stuck | D．crowded |
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| 小题15: | | A．notice | B．hear | | C．smell | D．touch |
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| 小题16: | | A．impossible | B．important | | C．imaginary | D．impressive |
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| 小题17: | | A．produced | B．imitated | | C．invented | D．spotted |
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| 小题18: | | A．goals | B．efforts | | C．directions | D．barriers |
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| 小题19: | | A．challenges | B．strengths | | C．situations | D．limitations |
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| 小题20: | | A．history | B．change | | C．progress | D．sense |
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