IlostmysightwhenIwasfouryearsoldbyfallingoffaboxcarinagoodsyardinAtlanticCity.NowIamthirtytwo.Icanslightlyrememberthebrightnessofsunshineandwhatcolorredis.Itwouldbewonderfultoseeagainbutadisaster

Question

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a goods yard in Atlantic City . Now I am thirty two. I can slightly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again but a disaster can do strange things to people. I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been blind. I don't mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had.
    Life I believe asks a constant adjustments to reality. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and teachers saw something in me -------a potential to live and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.

The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn't been able to do that I would have become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I mean : an assurance that I am despite imperfections 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 assurance. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was hurt. “I can't use this.” I said. “Take 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 where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. 
    All my life I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was out of reach. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
33. We can learn from the beginning of the passage that ________.

A．the author lost his sight because of a car crash

B．the author wouldn't love life if the disaster hadn't happen

C．the disaster made the author appreciate what he had

D．the disaster strengthened the author's desire to see

34. What's the most difficult thing for the author?

A. How to adjust himself to reality

B. Building up assurance that he can find his place in life

C. Learning to manage his life alone

D. To find a special work that suits the author

35. For the author the baseball and encouragement offered by the man ________.

A. hurt the author's feeling

B. made the author puzzled

C. directly led to the change of the author's career

D. inspired the author

Answer 1

CBD