I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of _____ and what color red is. It would be _____ to see again, but a (n) ____ can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would ____ to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had ____. My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a ____ to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with ___. The ____ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of ____ that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I _____ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being ____, 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 confidence. It had to start with the easy and simple things. _____ a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was ____. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words _____ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could ____ where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ___ before; playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I ___ a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball. 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 ___. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was ____ out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, _____ on the average I made progress.
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小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:B
小题6:B
小题7:D
小题8:A
小题9:C
小题10:D
小题11:A
小题12:C
小题13:D
小题14:A
小题15:B
小题16:D
小题17:A
小题18:D
小题19:B
小题20:C
题目分析：作者四岁时因意外而不幸失明，但是在老师和父母的引导下，作者找到了力量和自信，充分发挥了自己的潜质，在人生的道路上取得了一个个的成功。这个故事告诉我们在困境面前消极痛苦是于事无补的，只有努力奋斗拼搏，不向命运低头，人们才会获得成功。
小题1:C名词辨析。A.天空；B. 云；C. 阳光；D. 薄雾。根据空前the brightness of可以推测“明亮”应该是阳光的特点，也就是失明的作者模糊记得的是阳光的明媚，其他不合情理，答案选C.
小题2:B形容词辨析。A. 有帮助的；B. 精彩的，极好的；C. 希望的；D. 成功的。从情理判断失明的人如果能重新看到阳光，看到艳丽的色彩会是非常美好的事情，所以答案选B。
小题3:A名词辨析。A.灾难；B. 环境；C.事变，事件；D. 奇迹。根据上文I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car可知失明对一个人来说是一场灾难，其他选项不合语境，答案选A。
小题4:D动词辨析。A. 管理；B. 尝试；C. 想要；D.更喜欢。上文作者提到重新看到光明当然很好，但是有时候灾难会使人做到意想不到的事情，是说失明给他带来的好处，所以此处作者要对上文的话进行解释，句意：我不是指我喜欢没有我的双眼，答案选D。
小题5:B动词辨析。A.丢失；B. 剩下；C. 使用；D. 在意。从上下文可知作者在失明后充分发挥了自己的潜质，发挥了其他感官的能力，所以答案选B。
小题6:B名词辨析。A. 目的；B. 潜力 ； C.压力；D. 准备。根据破折号后的解释which I didn’t see,可知这是作者没意识到的能生存下去的潜质，答案选B。
小题7:D名词辨析。A. 能量；B. 快乐； C. 运气；D.失明。从上文可知作者失去了视力，所以他要与之挣扎斗争的是“失明”这一事实，句意：他们使我想要与失明做斗争。
小题8:A形容词辨析。A. 最难； B.最傻；C. 最简单；D. 最容易。由情理可知有残疾的人往往会有自卑感，会失去对生活的信心，所以说找到自信应该是最难做到的，答案选A。
小题9:C名词辨析。A. self-respect ；B. self-control ；C. self-confidence ；D. self-defence。根据上文I had to learn was to believe in myself以及下文中的. a confidence that I am可以判断此处指自信，答案选C。
小题10:D动词辨析。A. 思考；B. 认为 ； C. 猜想；D. 意思是。根据前句I am not talking about ….可以判断此处作者是对上文self-confidence的解释， 所以用mean“”，答案选D。
小题11:A形容词辨析。A. 不完美；B.完美；C. 不公平；D. 公平。根据上文可知作者小时候失明，所以在身体上应该是有缺陷的，答案选A。
小题12:C副词辨析。A. 后来；B. 不久；C. 从前；D. 然后。从文章语境可知此处是作者对过去事情的回忆，所以指“一次”，选C。
小题13:D动词辨析。A. 担忧；B. 鼓励；C. 震动；D. 伤害。由上文I thought he was laughing at me可以判断作者受到刺激，感觉心理受到伤害，hurt指 “感情，心灵受到伤害”选D。
小题14:A动词辨析。A. 击，印象； B.印象，烙印； C. 占据 ； D. 抓住。固定短语stick in one’s mind /head“铭记在心，经久不忘”，根据下文内容可知作者听从了那个人的话，玩起了室内棒球， 所以答案选A。
小题15:B动词辨析。A. 看见；B. 听见；C. 注意；D. 观察。作者是个盲人，所以判断球滚动的方向应该不能靠视觉，排除A、C、D选项，答案选B。句意：通过滚动球我能听到它去的方向。
小题16:D形容词辨析。A. 重要的； B.不重要的 ；C. 可能的；D. 不可能的。从上文可知作者从来没想过去玩棒球，也认为自己玩不了棒球，所以当别人送给他球玩的时候，他会感觉很受刺激，由此判断他认为那是不可能的，选D。
小题17:A动词辨析。A. 发明；B. 发现；C. 说明；D. 决定。从下句We called it ground ball.，可知作者是通过对棒球做出变通，发明了“ground ball.”，所以答案选A。
小题18:D名词辨析。A. 经历；B. 优势；C. 知识；D. 限制。由下文It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was ____ out of reach可以判断作者很清楚地知道自己身体的缺陷，所以在制定目标时会考虑到自己的局限性，选D。
小题19:B副词辨析。A. 几乎不；B. 粗野地；极其，非常；C. 高地；D. 深地。根据语境可知作者很理智地制定目标，不会让制定的目标超出自己的能力许多，答案选B。
小题20:C连词辨析。A.所以； B.为了；C.但是；D. 和。根据前句I would fail something anyway和后句I made progress.的可知前后句意相反，所以选C。