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 小题2: A.helpful B.wonderful C.hopeful D.successful 小题3: A.disaster B.environment C.incident D.wonder 小题4: A.manage B.try C.want D.prefer 小题5: A.lost B.left C.used D.cared 小题6: A.purpose B.potential C.pressure D.preparation 小题7: A.energy B.happiness C.luck D.blindness 小题8: A.hardest B.dullest C.simplest D.easiest 小题9: A.self-respect B.self-control C.self-confidence D.self-defence 小题10: A.think B.consider C.guess D.mean 小题11: A.imperfect B.perfect C.unfair D.fair 小题12: A.Later B.Soon C.Once D.Then 小题13: A.worried B.encouraged C.shocked D.hurt 小题14: A.stuck B.impressed C.occupied D.held 小题15: A.see B.hear C.notice D.observe 小题16: A.important B.unimportant C.possible D.impossible 小题17: A.invented B.discovered C.instructed D.directed 小题18: A.experience B.advantages C.knowledge D.limitation 小题19: A.hardly B.wildly C.highly D.deeply 小题20: A.so B.for C.but D.and