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 __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.

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】 本文講述一位盲人因一次意外事故失明后如何克服困難，重新定位自己，取得人生價值的故事

1.詞語搭配，根據brightness可知，此處講的是陽光的明媚，明亮

2.句意理解，如果能再次看到將會是非常棒的。

3.上下文，此處指的就是上文提到的失去眼睛的一次事故，對他來說就是一場災難。

4.句意理解，但是一場災難會對人造成奇怪的影響，我并不是說我更喜歡看不見東西，我只是說，失去了雙眼讓我更加懂得欣賞/感激我所剩下的。

5.同上

6.句意理解，我的老師和父母都看到我生存下來的可能性，purpose目的 pressure壓力preparation準備，

7.上下文，根據上文可知，作者失去了雙眼，因此他是瞎的，

8.句意理解，我要學習的第一課就是要相信自己，我并不是僅僅說那種自信。

9.上下文，根據上文的believe in myself可知，此處講的是自信，

10.句意理解，我說的不僅僅是從不熟悉的樓梯上下樓的那種自信，我意思是比那個更大一些的東西

11.上下文，根據上文可知，作者是一個盲人，一次是一個不完美的人

12.句意理解，此處是作者在講一件事情，一次一個人給 了我一個室內棒球。

13.上下文，根據上一句的I thought he was laughing at me可知，作者認為那人在嘲笑他，因此他很受傷

14.詞組，stick in 一位插入，此處一位他的話深深地印在了我的心中。

15.上下文，因為作者是一個盲人，因此他判斷球在哪里只能靠聽

16.句意理解，這給了我一種想法，我可以實現我以前認為不可能的一些目標

17.上下文，根據后文的a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball可知，這是一種全新的，他們自己命名的，因此是他發明的、。

18.句意理解，我要清楚我的局限性，指的是作者眼睛看不見

19.句意理解，我明白了，對于那些從開始就得不到的東西，哭是沒有用的，wildly意為非常

20.句意理解，不管怎樣，我會在某件事情上失敗的，但是總的來說，我還是進步了