Question

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.

1.A. sky     B. cloud   C. sunshine        D. mist

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

3.A. disaster      B. environment          C. incident         D. wonder

4.A. manage     B. try         C. want     D. prefer

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

6.A. purpose     B. potential       C. pressure       D. preparation

7.A. energy       B. happiness      C. luck       D. blindness

8.A. hardest      B. dullest           C. simplest         D. easiest

9.A. self-respect    B. self-control         C. self-confidence         D. self-defence

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

11.A. imperfect         B. perfect C. unfair    D. fair

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

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

14.A. stuck       B. impressed    C. occupied      D. held

15.A. see          B. hear     C. notice D. observe

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

17.A. invented          B. discovered   C. instructed    D. directed

18.A. experience     B. advantages    C. knowledge    D. limitation

19.A. hardly      B. wildly    C. highly    D. deeply

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

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.D

5.B

6.B

7.D

8.A

9.C

10.D

11.A

12.C

13.D

14.A

15.B

16.D

17.A

18.D

19.B

20.C

【解析】

试题分析：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。

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.

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

考点：考查故事性短文阅读。