Ilostmysightwhen1was4yearsoldinanaccident．NowI'm32．ItoccurredtometheotherdaythatImightnothavecometolove36somuchasIdonowifIhadn'tbeen37．Idon'tmeanthatlwouldprefertogow

Question

I lost my sight when 1 was 4 years old in an accident．Now I'm 32．

It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love    36    so much as I do now if I hadn't been    37  ．I don't mean that l would prefer to go with no sight．I simply mean that the   38    of it made me   39  more what I had left．

Life，I believe，    40   a continuous series of adjustments to reality．The more   41    a person is able to make these adjustments，the more    42     his life becomes．The adjustment is never easy．I had to   43   in myself，or else 1 would have collapsed（崩溃）．When I say belief in myself，I am not talking about simply the kind of    44     that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone．But I    45      something bigger than that：an assurance that I am，despite imperfections，a real，     46      person．

It took me years to discover and     47     this assurance．Once a man gave me an indoor baseball．I thought he was making fun of me and I was   48     ．“I can't use this，”I said “Take it with you，”he urged me，“and roll it around.” The word stuck in my head．By   49    the ball I could hear where it went．This gave me an idea how to    50   a goal I had thought impossible：playing baseball．At Philadelphia School for the Blind I invented a successful  51 of baseball. We call it Ground Ball.

All my life I have set ahead of me a series of    52     and then tried to reach them one at a time．But I had to be aware of my   53     ．It was no good to try for something that I knew at the start was out of   54    because that only invited the bitterness of    55    ．I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress．

36．A．darkness	B．life	C．freedom	D．nature
37．A．cured	B．deaf	C．blind	D．brave
38．A．remaining	B．use	C．recovery	D．loss
39．A．appreciate	B．challenge	C．suffer	D．use
40．A．asks	B．causes	C．lacks	D．directs
41．A．abruptly	B．simply	C．cautiously	D．readily
42．A．rich	B．meaningful	C．complex	D．helpful
43．A．believe	B．give	C．take	D．turn
44．A．independence	B．confidence	C．diligence	D．weakness
45．A．mean	B．have	C．produce	D．hide
46．A．disabled	B．reasonable	C．fearless	D．positive
47．A．strengthen	B．prove	C．remove	D．present
48．A．scolded	B．cheated	C．benefited	D．hurt
49．A．taking	B．rolling	C．hitting	D．passing
50．A．shoot	B．describe	C．imagine	D．achieve
51．A．occupation	B．variation	C．competition	D．qualification
52．A．goals	B．games	C．balls	D．examples
53．A．intelligence	B．virtues	C．advantages	D．limitations
54．A．breath	B．reach	C．power	D．sight
55．A．failure	B．sickness	C．ignorance	D．success

Answer 1

36―40 BCDAA    41―45 DBABA     46―50 DADBD     51―55 BADBA