Question

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a goods yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I can dimly remember the _________ of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a(n) _________ can do strange things to people.

It ________ to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, _________. I don't mean that I would prefer to _______ without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had ________.

Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of _________ to reality. In ________ of the fact they are never easy, I had my parents and teachers to help. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have ________ and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about _________ the kind of self confidence that helps me down an ________staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite __________, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself _______.

It took me years to discover and _________ this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was hurt. “I can't use this.” I said. “Take it with you，” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words ________ in my head. “Roll it around！” By rolling the ball I could hear where it _______. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ________: playing baseball.  At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.

All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to achieve them, one at a time. I had to learn my _________. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of ________ because that only __________ the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.

1.A. attraction    B. brightness    C. warmth    D. charm

2.A. crash    B. experience    C. catastrophe    D. memory

3.A. struck    B. happened    C. occurred    D. appealed

4.A. eventually    B. therefore    C. meanwhile    D. otherwise

5.A. choose    B. stay    C. go    D. see

6.A. left    B. forgotten    C. lost    D. heard

7.A. changes    B. references    C. trials    D. adjustments

8.A. terms    B. favour    C. spite    D. place

9.A. collapsed    B. cried    C. sighed    D. escaped

10.A. possibly    B. simply    C. frankly    D. inevitably

11.A. unbelievable    B. unstable    C. unfamiliar    D. unlikely

12.A. fear    B. imperfection    C. concern    D. unfairness

13.A. fit    B. live    C. stand    D. realize

14.A. abandon    B. strengthen    C. broaden    D. regain

15.A. stuck    B. hit    C. slipped    D. jumped

16.A. stopped    B. fell    C. bounced    D. went

17.A. reasonable    B. realistic    C. impossible    D. potential

18.A. dreams    B. abilities    C. limitations    D. achievements

19.A. control    B. pity    C. charge    D. reach

20.A. proposed    B. invited    C. included    D. extended

Answer

1. B

2. C

3. C

4. D

5. C

6. A

7. D

8. C

9. A

10. B

11. C

12. B

13. A

14. B

15. A

16. D

17. C

18. C

19. D

20. B

【解析】

本文是一篇故事。作者四岁时由于事故导致失明，通过一次滚球的经历明白了自己也能完成以前认为不可能的事情。有了自信，一生就能为自己设定一系列的目标，然后努力一个个去实现它们。

1.考查名词辨析。A. attraction吸引；B. brightness亮度；C. warmth温暖；D. charm魅力。根据开头I lost my sight when I was four years old可知作者四岁时失明，现在依稀记得阳光的明亮和红色是什么样子。指阳光的亮度，故选B.

2.考查名词辨析。A. crash撞碎；B. experience经历；C. catastrophe大灾难；D. memory记忆。作者认为能再看到阳光和红色一定很美妙，但是一场大灾难可以对人做奇怪的事情。与上文I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a goods yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head.呼应，指摔伤造成的失明，故选C.

3.考查动词辨析。A. struck罢工；B. happened发生；C. occurred出现，发生；D. appealed呼吁。此处指我突然想到如果我不是盲人，我可能不会像现在这样热爱生活。表示“想到”是occur to，故选C.

4.考查副词辨析。A. eventually最终；B. therefore因此；C. meanwhile同时；D. otherwise否则。此处指我相信现在的生活，否则，我不确定我是否会深深相信它。前后句表示转折，故选D.

5.考查动词辨析。A. choose选择；B. stay停留；C. go走，去；D. see看见。句意：我不是说我宁愿没有眼睛，我只是想说，失去他们让我更加珍惜我所拥有的。故选C.

6.考查动词辨析。A. left剩下，留下；B. forgotten忘记；C. lost失去；D. heard听见。此处指我更珍惜我所剩下的，表示“剩下，留下”，故选A.

7.考查名词辨析A. changes改变；B. references参照；C. trials尝试；D. adjustments调整。此处指我相信，生活需要对现实进行一系列的不断调整。故选D.

8.考查名词辨析。A. terms学期；B. favour偏爱；C. spite不顾；D. place地方。此处指尽管他们都不容易，但我有父母和老师的帮助。表示“虽然，尽管”是in spite of，故选C.

9.考查动词辨析。A. collapsed崩溃，倒塌；B. cried叫喊；C. sighed叹息；D. escaped逃离。此处指如果我不能做到相信自己，我就会崩溃，就会在轮椅上度过一生。故选A.

10.考查副词辨析。A. possibly可能地；B. simply简单地，仅仅；C. frankly坦白地；D. inevitably必然地。当我说相信自己时，我并不是仅仅谈论那种帮我独自走下了一段不熟悉楼梯的自信。表示“仅仅”，故选B.

11.考查形容词辨析。A. unbelievable难以置信的；B. unstable不稳定的；C. unfamiliar不熟悉的。D. unlikely不太可能的。此处指那种帮我独自走下了一段不熟悉楼梯的自信，指不熟悉的楼梯，故选C.

12.考查名词辨析。A. fear害怕；B. imperfection不完美；C. concern关心；D. unfairness不公平。句意：但我指的是比这更重要的东西：自信，尽管不完美，但是真实的积极的人。根据句意选B.

13.考查动词辨析。A. fit适合；B. live居住；C. stand站立；D. realize意识到。有一个特别的地方，我可以使自己适合。指适合自己的地方，故选A.

14.考查动词辨析。A. abandon放任；B. strengthen加强，增强；C. broaden扩大；D. regain恢复。此处指我花费了许多年发现和增强这种自信，故选B.

15.考查动词辨析。A. stuck刺，卡住；B. hit打击；C. slipped打滑；D. jumped跳跃。这些话在我脑子里挥之不去，指刺入了我的大脑。故选A.

16.考查动词辨析。A. stopped停止；B. fell摔倒；C. bounced跳起；D. went去。此处指通过滚动球，我可以听出它滚动到了哪里。故选D.

17.考查形容词辨析。A. reasonable合理的；B. realistic现实的；C. impossible不可能的； D. potential潜在的。滚动球的经历给了我一个想法，如何实现一个我以前认为不可能的目标——打棒球。指不可能实现的目标，故选C.

18.考查名词辨析。A. dreams梦想；B. abilities能力；C. limitations局限性；D. achievements业绩。我一生都在为自己设定一系列的目标，然后努力一个个去实现它们。做事情时，我必须了解自己的局限性，故选C.

19.考查名词辨析。A. control控制；B. pity遗憾；C. charge控告；D. reach范围，延伸。我一开始就知道有些东西是遥不可及的，但为了它而哭是没有用的。此处指遥不可及，够不着的东西，“够不着”是out of reach，故选D.

20.考查动词辨析。A. proposed提议；B. invited招致；C. included包括；D. extended延长。我一开始就知道有些东西是遥不可及的，但为了它而哭是没有用的，因为那只会招致失败的痛苦。指招致失败的痛苦，故选B.