IlostmysightwhenIwasfouryearsoldbyfallingoffaboxcarina...

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I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight(貨運) yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can slightly 41 the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but 42 can do strange things to people.

It 43 to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been 44 . I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so 45 , otherwise. I don't mean that I would prefer to go without my 46 . I simply mean that the loss of them made me 47 the more what I had left. Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of _48__ to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more 49 his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. The hardest 50 I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was 51 , If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have 52 and become a chair rocker on the front porch(門廊) for the rest of my life.

It took me years to discover and 53 this believe. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was 54 at me and I was hurt. "I can't use this," I said. " 55 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 56 it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought 57 : playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of 58 . 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 59 . It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of 50 . I would fail sometimes anyway but on average I made progress.

41. A. forget B. see C. ignore D. remember

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

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

44. A. clever B. blind C. foolish D. luckily

45. A. hardly kly C. roughly ly

46. A. Hands B. arms C. eyes

47 A. appreciate B. arrive C. believe D. accept

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

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

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

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

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