IlostmysightwhenIwasfouryearsoldbyfallingoffaboxcarin...
問題詳情：
I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight（貨物）yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can still 41 ___ the brightness of sunshine. It would be 42 ___ to see again, But a 43 _____ can do strange things to people. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the 44 ___ of them made me 45 __ the more what I had.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more quickly a person is able to make these adjustments, the more 46 ___ his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never 47 __. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—the 48 _____ to live—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to 49 ___ against blindness.
The hardest 50 ___ I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of 51 ___ that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: the confidence that I am, despite being imperfect, a real, 52 ___ person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and 53 __ this confidence. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he 54 _____me, “and roll it around.” The words 55 __ 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 56 _: playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I 57 ___ a successful variation of baseball and I 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 be clear about my 58 __. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach 59 __ that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would 60 ___sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
41. A. remember | B. affect | C. measure | D. bring |
42. A. possible | B. wonderful | C. hopeful | D. reasonable |
43. A. question | B. mistake | C. disaster | D. situation |
44.A. importance | B. value | C. loss | D. attention |
45. A. record | B. expect | C. offer | D. appreciate |
46. A. natural | B. modern | C. meaningful | D. challenging |
47. A. necessary | B. easy | C. difficult | D. practical |
48. A. right | B. plan | C. place | D. potential |
49. A. guard | B. hit | C. argue | D. fight |
50. A. game | B. skill | C. lesson | D. knowledge |
51.A. self-control | B. self-confidence | C. self-defense | -improvement |
52. A. modest | B. energetic | C. generous | D. positive |
53. A. strengthen | B. express | C. share | D. destroy |
54. A. urged | B. blamed | C. respected | D. admired |
55. A. held | B. stuck | C. bothered | D. knocked |
56. A. important | B. specific | C. common | D. impossible |
57. A. invented | B. confirmed | C. checked | D. noticed |
58. A. interest | B. limitation | C. experience | D. responsibility |
59. A. once | B. unless | C. because | D. though |
60. A. fail | B. try | C. act | D. continue |
【回答】
41—45 ABCCD 46—50 CBDDC 51—55 BDAAB 56—60 DABCA
知識點：人物傳記 故事閲讀類
題型：完型填空
