IlostmysightwhenIwasfouryearsoldbyfallingoffaboxcarinafreight(货运)yardinAtlanticCityandlandingonmyhead.NowIamthirty-two.Icanslightly1thebrightnessofsunshineandwhatcolourredis.Itwould

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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 1        the brightness of sunshine and what colour red is. It would be wonderful to see again but 2        can do strange things to people.    ;

  It 3        to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been 4     . I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so 5 otherwise. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my 6        I simply mean that the loss of them made me 7      the more what I had left.

  Life I believe asks a continuous series of 8        to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments the more 9      his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. The hardest 10      I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was 11      If I hadn’t been able to do that. I would have 12      and become a chair rocker on the front perch (门廊) for the rest of my life.

  It took me years to discover and 13        this belief. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was 14        at me  and I was hurt. “I can’t use this ” I said. “  15 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 16      it went. This gave me an idea on how to achieve a goal I had thought 17      ： playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Over brook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of 18      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 19      It was no good to try for something I knew at the start which was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of 20      I would fail sometimes anyway but on average I made progress.

(   ) 1. A. forget   B. see

   C. ignore   D. remember

(   ) 2. A. happiness   B. fortune

   C. misfortune   D. wealth

(   ) 3. A. occurred   B. happened

   C. agreed   D. applied

(   ) 4. A*  clever   B. blind

   C. foolish   D. lucky

(   ) 5. A. hardly   B. quickly

   C. roughly   D. deeply

(   ) 6. A. hands   B. arms

   C. eyes   D. legs

(   ) 7. A. appreciate   B. arrive

   C. believe   D. accept

(   ) 8. A. employments   B. investments

   C. settlements   D. adjustments

(   ) 9. A. meaningful   B. painful

   C. fearful   D. careful

(   ) 10. A. pleasure   B. lesson

   C. enjoyment   D. trouble

(   ) 11. A. unnecessary   B. horrible

   C. unpractical   D. essential

(   ) 12. A. broken out   B. broken through

   C. broken down   D. broken off

(   ) 13. A. strengthen   B. weaken

   C. shorten   D. darken

(   ) 14. A. smiling   B. laughing

   C. wondering   D. glaring

(   ) 15. A. Bring   B. Borrow

   C. Take   D. Lend

(   ) 16. A. where   B. when

   C. why   D. how

(   ) 17. A. possible   B. potential

   C. probable   D. impossible

(   ) 18. A. basketball   B. baseball

   C. football   D. volleyball

(   ) 19. A. conversations   B. limitations

   C. congratulations   D. educations

(   ) 20. A. achievement   B. process

   C. success   D. failure

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