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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’t remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is clearly. It would be   ________  to see again, but a disaster 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(珍惜)more what I had   ________  .

My parents and my teachers saw something in me---a potential(潜能)to live---which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with blindness.

The ________  lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I ________  something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, although being imperfect, a real, positive(积极的)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 encouraged me, “and roll it around.” The words were always 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 ________ before; playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I   ________ a successful skill 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 limitations(限制). It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, ________  on the average(平均)I made progress.

1.A. helpful     B. wonderful    C. hopeful     D. successful

2.A. fail         B. try          C. want      D. prefer

3.A. lost        B. left       C. used      D. cared

4.A. hardest    B. boring      C. simplest   D. easiest

5.A. think       B. consider     C. guess       D. mean

6.A. Later        B. Soon         C. Once       D. Then

7.A. worried     B. hurt         C. shocked    D. encouraged

8.A. important   B. unimportant C. possible    D. impossible

9.A. invented     B. discovered C. ordered    D. directed

10.A. so         B. for        C. but        D. and

Answer

1.C

2.D

3.B

4.A

5.D

6.C

7.B

8.D

9.A

10.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述一位盲人因一次意外事故失明后如何克服困难，重新定位自己，取得人生价值的故事.

1.1】C考查形容词及语境的理解。句意：如果能再次看到将会是非常棒的。此题考查形容词，A. helpful有帮助的；B. wonderful极好的；C. hopeful有希望的； D. successful成功的。联系前后文，故选C。

2.2】D考查动词及语境的理解。句意：但是一场灾难会对人造成奇怪的影响，我并不是说我更喜欢看不见东西，我只是说，失去了双眼让我更加懂得欣赏/感激我所剩下的。此题考查动词，A. fail失败；B. try尝试；C. want想要；D. prefer更喜欢。根据句意，故选D。

3.3】B考查动词及语境的理解。句意：但是一场灾难会对人造成奇怪的影响，我并不是说我更喜欢看不见东西，我只是说，失去了双眼让我更加懂得欣赏/感激我所剩下的。此题考查动词，A. lost失去； B. left剩下； C. used用过；D. cared关心。根据句意，故选B。

4.4】A考查形容词及语境的理解。句意：我要学习的最艰难的第一课就是要相信自己，我并不是仅仅说那种自信。此题考查形容词，A. hardest最艰难的；B. boring无聊的；C. simplest最简单的；D. easiest最容易的。根据句意，故选A。

5.5】D考查动词及语境的理解。句意：我说的不仅仅是从不熟悉的楼梯上下楼的那种自信，我意思是比那个更大一些的东西。此题考查动词，A. think认为；B. consider思考，认为； C. guess猜想；D. mean意思是。根据句意，故选D。

6.6】C考查副词及语境的理解。句意：此处是作者在讲一件事情，一次一个人给了我一个室内棒球。此题考查副词，A. Later以后；B. Soon不久；C. Once一次；D. Then接下来。根据句意，故选C。

7.7】B考查动词及语境的理解。句意：联系上下文，根据上一句的I thought he was laughing at me可知，作者认为那人在嘲笑他，因此他很受伤。此题考查动词，A. worried担心；B. hurt受伤；C. shocked震惊；D. encouraged鼓励。根据句意，故选B。

8.8】D考查形容词及语境的理解。句意：这给了我一种想法，我可以实现我以前认为不可能的一些目标。此题考查形容词，A. important重要的；B. unimportant不重要的； C. possible可能的；D. impossible不可能的。根据句意，故选D。

9.9】A考查动词辨析及语境的理解。句意：上下文，根据后文的a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball可知，这是一种全新的，他们自己命名的，因此是他发明的。此题考查动词，A. invented发明；B. discovered发现； C. ordered命令；D. directed引导。故选A。

10.10】C考查连词辨析及语境的理解。句意：不管怎样，我会在某件事情上失败的，但是总的来说，我还是进步了。此题考查连词，A. so因此；B. for因为；C. but但是；D. and并且。根据句意，故选C。

考点：考查故事类短文。