题目内容：

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 adjustmentsto 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