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