Question

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 _____ and what color red is. It would be _____ to see again, but a (n) ____ 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 more what I had ____.                                                

My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a ____ to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with ___.

The ____ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of ____ that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I _____ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being ____, 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. _____ 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 urged me, “and roll it around.” The words _____ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could ____ 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 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  ___. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was ____ out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, _____ on the average I made progress.

1.A. sky     B. cloud   C. sunshine        D. mist

2.A. helpful       B. wonderful     C. hopeful          D. successful

3.A. disaster      B. environment          C. incident         D. wonder

4.A. manage     B. try         C. want     D. prefer

5.A. lost   B. left        C. used     D. cared

6.A. purpose     B. potential       C. pressure       D. preparation

7.A. energy       B. happiness      C. luck       D. blindness

8.A. hardest      B. dullest           C. simplest         D. easiest

9.A. self-respect    B. self-control         C. self-confidence         D. self-defence

10.A. think        B. consider       C. guess    D. mean

11.A. imperfect         B. perfect C. unfair    D. fair

12.A. Later       B. Soon    C. Once     D. Then

13.A. worried B. encouraged          C. shocked        D. hurt

14.A. stuck       B. impressed    C. occupied      D. held

15.A. see          B. hear     C. notice D. observe

16.A. important        B. unimportant          C. possible        D. impossible

17.A. invented          B. discovered   C. instructed    D. directed

18.A. experience     B. advantages    C. knowledge    D. limitation

19.A. hardly      B. wildly    C. highly    D. deeply

20.A. so   B. for        C. but       D. and

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.D

5.B

6.B

7.D

8.A

9.C

10.D

11.A

12.C

13.D

14.A

15.B

16.D

17.A

18.D

19.B

20.C

【解析】

試題分析：作者四歲時因意外而不幸失明，但是在老師和父母的引導(dǎo)下，作者找到了力量和自信，充分發(fā)揮了自己的潛質(zhì)，在人生的道路上取得了一個個的成功。這個故事告訴我們在困境面前消極痛苦是于事無補的，只有努力奮斗拼搏，不向命運低頭，人們才會獲得成功。

1.C名詞辨析。A.天空；B. 云；C. 陽光；D. 薄霧。根據(jù)空前the brightness of可以推測“明亮”應(yīng)該是陽光的特點，也就是失明的作者模糊記得的是陽光的明媚，其他不合情理，答案選C.

2.B形容詞辨析。A. 有幫助的；B. 精彩的，極好的；C. 希望的；D. 成功的。從情理判斷失明的人如果能重新看到陽光，看到艷麗的色彩會是非常美好的事情，所以答案選B。

3.A名詞辨析。A.災(zāi)難；B. 環(huán)境；C.事變，事件；D. 奇跡。根據(jù)上文I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car可知失明對一個人來說是一場災(zāi)難，其他選項不合語境，答案選A。

4.D動詞辨析。A. 管理；B. 嘗試；C. 想要；D.更喜歡。上文作者提到重新看到光明當(dāng)然很好，但是有時候災(zāi)難會使人做到意想不到的事情，是說失明給他帶來的好處，所以此處作者要對上文的話進行解釋，句意：我不是指我喜歡沒有我的雙眼，答案選D。

5.B動詞辨析。A.丟失      ；B. 剩下；C. 使用；D. 在意。從上下文可知作者在失明后充分發(fā)揮了自己的潛質(zhì)，發(fā)揮了其他感官的能力，所以答案選B。

6.B名詞辨析。A. 目的；B. 潛力 ； C.壓力；D. 準備。根據(jù)破折號后的解釋which I didn’t see,可知這是作者沒意識到的能生存下去的潛質(zhì)，答案選B。

7.D名詞辨析。A. 能量；B. 快樂； C. 運氣；D.失明。從上文可知作者失去了視力，所以他要與之掙扎斗爭的是“失明”這一事實，句意：他們使我想要與失明做斗爭。

8.A形容詞辨析。A. 最難； B.最傻；C. 最簡單；D. 最容易。由情理可知有殘疾的人往往會有自卑感，會失去對生活的信心，所以說找到自信應(yīng)該是最難做到的，答案選A。

9.C名詞辨析。A. self-respect  ；B. self-control        ；C. self-confidence ；D. self-defence。根據(jù)上文I had to learn was to believe in myself以及下文中的. a confidence that I am可以判斷此處指自信，答案選C。

10.D動詞辨析。A. 思考；B. 認為 ；     C. 猜想；D. 意思是。根據(jù)前句I am not talking about ….可以判斷此處作者是對上文self-confidence的解釋， 所以用mean“”，答案選D。

11.A形容詞辨析。A. 不完美；B.完美；C. 不公平；D. 公平。根據(jù)上文可知作者小時候失明，所以在身體上應(yīng)該是有缺陷的，答案選A。

12.C副詞辨析。A. 后來；B. 不久；C. 從前；D. 然后。從文章語境可知此處是作者對過去事情的回憶，所以指“一次”，選C。

13.D動詞辨析。A. 擔(dān)憂；B. 鼓勵；C. 震動；D. 傷害。由上文I thought he was laughing at me可以判斷作者受到刺激，感覺心理受到傷害，hurt指 “感情，心靈受到傷害”選D。

14.A動詞辨析。A. 擊，印象；       B.印象，烙印；        C. 占據(jù) ；        D. 抓住。固定短語stick in one’s mind /head“銘記在心，經(jīng)久不忘”，根據(jù)下文內(nèi)容可知作者聽從了那個人的話，玩起了室內(nèi)棒球， 所以答案選A。

15.B動詞辨析。A. 看見；B. 聽見；C. 注意；D. 觀察。作者是個盲人，所以判斷球滾動的方向應(yīng)該不能靠視覺，排除A、C、D選項，答案選B。句意：通過滾動球我能聽到它去的方向。

16.D形容詞辨析。A. 重要的；       B.不重要的       ；C. 可能的；D. 不可能的。從上文可知作者從來沒想過去玩棒球，也認為自己玩不了棒球，所以當(dāng)別人送給他球玩的時候，他會感覺很受刺激，由此判斷他認為那是不可能的，選D。

17.A動詞辨析。A. 發(fā)明；B. 發(fā)現(xiàn)；C. 說明；D. 決定。從下句We called it ground ball.，可知作者是通過對棒球做出變通，發(fā)明了“ground ball.”，所以答案選A。

18.D名詞辨析。A. 經(jīng)歷；B. 優(yōu)勢；C. 知識；D. 限制。由下文It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was ____ out of reach可以判斷作者很清楚地知道自己身體的缺陷，所以在制定目標時會考慮到自己的局限性，選D。

19.B副詞辨析。A. 幾乎不；B. 粗野地；極其，非常；C. 高地；D. 深地。根據(jù)語境可知作者很理智地制定目標，不會讓制定的目標超出自己的能力許多，答案選B。

20.C連詞辨析。A.所以；         B.為了；C.但是；D. 和。根據(jù)前句I would fail something anyway和后句I made progress.的可知前后句意相反，所以選C。

考點：考查故事性短文閱讀。