IlostmysightwhenIwasfouryearsoldbyfallingoffaboxcarinafreight(货运)yardinAtlanticCityandlandingonmyhead.NowIamthirty-two.Icanslightly5thebrightnessofsunshineandwhatcolourredis.Itwouldbewonderfultosee

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I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight (货运)yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can slightly 5the brightness of sunshine and what colour red is. It would be wonderful to see again but 6 can do strange things to people.

It 7to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been 8 . I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so 9，otherwise. I don't mean that I would pre?fer to go without my 10 . I simply mean that the loss of them made me  11 more what I had.

Life I believe asks a continuous series of12 to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments the more    13  his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. The hardest 14         I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was 15       . If I hadn't been able to do that I would have 16        and become a chair rocker on the front porch (门廊)for the rest of my life.

It took me years to discover and    17    this belief. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball.   I thought he was 18    at me and I was hurt. "I can't use this " I said. " 19  it with you，，， he urged me "and roll it around. ，， The words stuck in my head.   " Roll it around!" By rolling the ball I could hear   20 it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought   21  ； playing baseball.  At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of    22   . We called it ground ball.

All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them one at a time. I had to learn my 23 It was no good to try for something I knew at the start that was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of24 . I would fail sometimes anyway but on average I made progress.

 5.A. forget                B. see

C. ignore               D. remember

6.   A. happiness            B. fortune
C. misfortune           D. wealth

7.   A. occurred             B. happened
C. agreed               D. applied

8.   A. clever               B. blind
C. foolish              D. lucky

9.   A. hardly               B. quickly
C. roughly              D. deeply

  10.   A. hands               B. arms

C. eyes                D. legs

11.   A. appreciate          B. arrive

C. believe             D. accept

12.   A. employments         B. investments
C. settlements         D. adjustments

13.   A. meaningful          B. painful
C. fearful             D. careful

14.    A. pleasure            B. lesson
C.  enjoyment           D. trouble

15.    A. unnecessary         B. horrible
C.  unpractical         D. essential

16.    A. broken out          B.  broken through
C.  broken down         D.  broken off

17.    A. strengthen          B. weaken
C.  shorten             D. darken

18.    A. smiling             B. laughing
C.  wondering           D. glaring

19.    A. Bring               B. Borrow
C.  Take                D. Lend

20.    A. where               B. when
C.  why                 D. how

 

21.    A. possible            B. potential
C.  probable            D. impossible

22.    A. basketball          B. baseball
C.  football            D. volleyballl

23.    A. conversations       B. limitations
C.  congratulations     D. educations

24.    A achievement         B. process
C.  success             D. failure

Answer 1

【文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文，主要介绍了作者在四岁时因一

次意外而失明，但作者并没有灰心丧气而是努力寻找自身不足并及时做出调整，重新对生活充满了热爱，也实现了很多个目标，取得了进步。

D forget忘记；see看见，明白；ignore忽视，不理睬；re?member 记得， 记起。句意："我"只是依稀记得阳光的明媚和红色的样子。

C happiness幸福，快乐；fortune财富，命运 运气；misfor-Ume不幸，灾难；wealth财富，富有。句意：重见光明很好， 但是不幸却能给人们带来各种稀奇古怪的事

情。

A "It occurs/occurred to sb that..."是个固定句型，意为"某人突然想到……"。句意：某一天"我"突然想到，如果"我"没有失明可能还不能像现在这样热爱生活。

B clever聪明的，机灵的、熟练的；blind盲目的，瞎的； foolish愚S的，傻的;lucky幸运的。句意参考上题。

D hardly几乎不；quickly迅速地，很快地；roughly粗糙地， 概略地；deeply深刻地，浓浓地。句意：否则"我"不确信"我" 会如此深深地相信生活。

 

C   根据下一题前面的the loss of them和语境可知，此处的them应该是代指eyes 故选择C项。

A   appreciate欣赏，感激，重视；arrive到达；believe信任， 料想；accept接受，承认。句意："我"的意思是，正是眼睛的缺失才使得"我"更加重视（珍惜）"我"此刻拥有的。

D employment使用，雇佣；investment投资项目；settle?ment 定 居点， 殖民地；adjustment调整。根据下一题前面的these adjustments和语境可知，应选择D项。

A meaningful有意义的，意味深长的；painful痛苦的，令人不快的；fearful可怕的，担心的；careful细致的，细心的。句意：一个人越充分准备做出这样的调整，他的个人世界就会变得越有意义。故选择A项。

B pleasure愉快，快乐；lesson教训 课；enjoyment享受， 乐趣；trouble麻烦，烦恼。由后面的"I had to learn..."和语境可知，应选择B项。

D unnecessary不必要的，多余的，无用的；horrible可怕的， 极讨厌的；unpractical不切实际的，不实用的；essential基本的，必要的。句意:那(相信自己）是非常必要的。故选择D项。

C break out爆发；break through突破，突围；break down 分解，出故障，（身体、精神）垮掉；break off中断，突然中止。句意：如果"我"未能相信自己的话，"我"将会

垮掉了……。故选择C项。

A strengthen加强，巩固；weaken减少，使变弱；shorten 縮短，减少；darken使变暗，使模糊。句意："我"花了多年的时间才发现并强化这种信念。故选择A项。

B smile at sb对着某人微笑；laugh at sb嘲笑某人；glare at sb怒视某人。根据后面的"I was hurt."和语境可知，应选择B项。

C bring带来；borrow ft As take拿走；lend借出。句意： 他催促"我"说，你拿走吧。

A句意：……"我"可以听到它（棒球）滚到哪里。故选A。

D possible可能的；potential潜在的；probable很可能的； impossible不可能的。句意：这让"我"知道了如何实现"我" 原以为不可能的目标。

B根据上下文语境可知，应选择B项。

B conversation会话，交谈；limitation局限性，限制；con?gratulation 祝贺， 恭喜 education教育，学历。句意："我" 必须知晓"我"自己的局限性。故选择B项。

D achievement完成，成就 成绩；process过程，程序； success成功；failure失败。句意：……因为那只会带来失败的苦楚。故选择D项。