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 __36____ and what color red is. It would be ___37____ to see again, but a(n) __38____ can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would __39___ to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had _40_____.
My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a __41____ to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with _42____.
The __43___ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of __44____ that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I __45___ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being __46____, 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. __47____ a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was __48____. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words __49___ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could _50_____ where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought _51____ before playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I _52___ 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 _53____. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was __54___ out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, __55___ on the average I made progress.
小题1: | A.sky | B.cloud | C.sunshine | D.mist |
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小题2: | A.helpful | B.wonderful | C.hopeful | D.successful |
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小题3: | A.disaster | B.environment | C.incident | D.wonder |
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小题4: | A.manage | B.try | C.want | D.prefer |
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小题5: | A.lost | B.left | C.used | D.cared |
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小题6: | A.purpose | B.potential | C.pressure | D.preparation |
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小题7: | A.energy | B.happiness | C.luck | D.blindness |
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小题8: | A.hardest | B.dullest | C.simplest | D.easiest |
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小题9: | A.self-respect | B.self-control | C.self-confidence | D.self-defence |
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小题10: | A.think | B.consider | C.guess | D.mean |
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小题11: | A.imperfect | B.perfect | C.unfair | D.fair |
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小题12: | A.Later | B.Soon | C.Once | D.Then |
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小题13: | A.worried | B.encouraged | C.shocked | D.hurt |
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小题14: | A.stuck | B.impressed | C.occupied | D.held |
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小题15: | A.see | B.hear | C.notice | D.observe |
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小题16: | A.important | B.unimportant | C.possible | D.impossible |
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小题17: | A.invented | B.discovered | C.instructed | D.directed |
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小题18: | A.experience | B.advantages | C.knowledge | D.limitation |
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小题19: | A.hardly | B.wildly | C.highly | D.deeply |
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