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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