Question

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can still     the brightness of sunshine. It would be       to see again, but a     can do strange things to people. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the     of them made me         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           his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never         . I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—the          to live—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to          against blindness.

The hardest          I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of         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,          person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.

It took me years to discover and        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          me, “and roll it around.” The words          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        : playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I          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          . It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach          that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would        sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.

1.A. remember       B. affect      C. measure      D. bring

2.A. possible        B. wonderful    C. hopeful      D. reasonable

3.A. question        B. mistake     C. disaster     D. situation

4.A. importance     B. value        C. loss         D. attention

5.A. record         B. expect       C. offer        D. appreciate

6.A. natural         B. modern       C. meaningful  D. challenging

7.A. necessary       B. easy        C. difficult    D. practical

8.A. right           B. plan         C. place        D. potential

9.A. guard          B. hit          C. argue        D. fight

10.A. game          B. skill        C. lesson      D. knowledge

11.A. self-control  B. self-confidence C. self-defense D. self-improvement

12.A. modest        B. energetic   C. generous     D. positive

13.A. strengthen    B. express      C. share        D. destroy

14.A. urged         B. blamed       C. respected   D. admired

15.A. held           B. stuck        C. bothered     D. knocked

16.A. important      B. specific     C. common     D. impossible

17.A. invented       B. confirmed    C. checked      D. noticed

18.A. interest       B. limitation   C. experience   D. responsibility

19.A. once           B. unless      C. because      D. though

20.A. fail           B. try          C. act          D. continue

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.C

5.D

6.C

7.B

8.D

9.D

10.C

11.B

12.D

13.A

14.A

15.B

16.D

17.A

18.B

19.C

20.A

【解析】

试题分析：本文主要讲述了作者小时候失明，长大后由于自信而取得了很大进步的故事。

1.A 考查动词。A. remember记得；B. affect影响； C. measure估量；D. bring带来。此处指作者失明多年，但仍然记得阳光的明亮。A项符合句意，故选A.

2.B考查形容词。A. possible可能的；B. wonderful极好的；C. hopeful 有希望的；D. reasonable合理的。此处指如果能再次见到阳光就太好了。B项符合句意，故选B.

3.C考查名词。A. question问题；B. mistake错误；C. disaster灾难；D. situation情况。句意：但是一场灾难会让人做意想不到的事情，此处指下文作者做成的事，故选C.

4.C 考查名词。A. importance重要性；B. value价值；C. loss损失；D. attention注意。句意：我仅仅指它们的损失使我更感激我现在所拥有的东西。此处指视力的丧失，故选C.

5.D 考查动词。A. record 记录；B. expect期望；C. offer提供；D. appreciate感激。句意：我仅仅指它们的损失使我更感激我现在所拥有的东西。此处指作者的感恩之心。故选D.

6.C 考查形容词。A. natural 自然的；B. modern现代的；C. meaningful 有意义的；D. challenging挑战的。句意：一个人适应这种调节越快，他自己的世界就越有意义。meaningful在此修饰his own private world，故选C.

7.B 考查形容词。A. necessary必需的；B. easy容易的；C. difficult困难的；D. practical实际的。句意：这种调节一点都不容易，我非常迷惑害怕。句中有never，故选B.

8.D考查名词。A. right权利；B. plan计划；C. place地方；D. potential潜能。句意：老师和父母发现了我内在的东西—生存的潜能。根据句意选D.

9.D考查动词。A. guard 保卫；B. hit打击；C. argue争论；D. fight打架。此处fight against是短语“为反对……而战”，句意：他们使我想和失明斗争。故选D,

10.C考查名词。A. game 游戏；B. skill技能； C. lesson课，教训；D. knowledge知识。句意：我必须学的最难的课就是相信自己。C项符合句意，故选C.

11.B考查名词。A. self-control自我控制；B. self-confidence自信；C. self-defense自我保护D. self-improvement自我提高。句意：我谈论的不仅仅是帮我独自走下陌生楼梯的那种自信。下句也提到I mean something bigger than that: the confidence that I am，B项符合文意，故选B.

12.D考查形容词。A. modest 谦虚的；B. energetic精力充沛的；C. generous慷慨的；D. positive积极的。句意：我所拥有的自信，尽管不完美，但我是真的积极的人，我能找到适合我的特殊的位置。D项符合句意，故选D.

13.A考查动词。A. strengthen 加强，巩固；B. express表达；C. share 分享；D. destroy破坏。句意：花费了我好多年发现和加强这种自信。根据句意选A.

14.A考查动词。A. urged催促，力劝；B. blamed责备；C. respected尊敬；D. admired钦佩。此处指别人扔给我一个棒球，我说我不会玩，拿走，然后对方劝我“把球四处滚动”。故选A.

15.B考查动词。A. held 握住；B. stuck刺，打动；C. bothered打扰； D. knocked敲。此处指他的话在我内心刺了一下，打动了我。故选B.

16.D考查形容词。A. important重要的；B. specific特殊的； C. common普通的；D. impossible不可能的。句意：这件事给了我一个想法：怎样实现我本认为不可能的目标。故选D.

17.A考查动词。A. invented 发明；B. confirmed证实；C. checked检查；D. noticed注意。此处指我为盲人们成功发明了一种变化式棒球。A项符合句意，故选A.

18.B考查名词。A. interest 兴趣；B. limitation限制；C. experience经历；D. responsibility责任。句意：我不断给自己提出目标并努力去实现，但我必须清楚我的限制。此处指失明。故选B.

19.C考查连词。A. once 一旦；B. unless除非；C. because因为；D. though尽管。句意：我知道尝试一开始就认为不可能办成的事不是好的选择，因为它只会给你带来失败的痛苦。故选C.

20.A. fail 失败；B. try 尝试；C. act扮演；D. continue继续。句意：我有时也会失败，但总的来说我取得了很大进步。故选A.

考点：考查故事类短文阅读。