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【題目】I lost my sight when I was four years old when falling off a train to Atlantic City. But I was . My parents and my teachers saw something in me -a potential to live, you might call it -which I didn't see, and they encouraged me to blindness.

The hardest lesson I had to was to believe in myself. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have walked with a stick for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not _ talking about the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that. Although imperfect in some aspect, I am a real, positive person. There is a special place where I can make myself fit.

It took me years to discover and this self-confidence. It had to start with the most basic things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was .

"I can't use this," I responded.

"Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around. "

The words stuck in my head. "Roll it around! " By rolling the ball I could where it went. This gave me an how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a new kind of baseball. We called it ground ball.

All my life have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to them one by one. I also knew my limitations. It was no good trying something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made .

【1】A. unfortunate B. disappointed C. lucky D. ashamed

【2】A. share with B. play with C. toy with D. fight with

【3】A. meet B. learn C. avoid D. prepare

【4】A. simply B. slightly C. frequently D. directly

【5】A. unusual B. unfair C.unfamiliar D. uncomfortable

【6】A. lengthen B. strengthen C. deepen D. widen

【7】A. hurt B. amused C. greeted D. praised

【8】A. find B. see C. smell D. hear

【9】A. event B. offer C. idea D. excuse

【10】A. receive B. achieve C. classify D. follow

【11】A. refused B. removed C. caused D. replaced

【12】A. sense B. mistakes C. friends D. progress

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】B

【4】A

【5】C

【6】B

【7】A

【8】D

【9】C

【10】B

【11】C

【12】D

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了作者是怎樣克服雙目失明的遺憾來使生活過的和平常人一樣，努力追求自己的夢想和目標(biāo)。

【1】C；考查形容詞。文章開頭說道“我”在四歲那年因?yàn)閺幕疖嚿纤は聛矶�失明，這本來是一件不幸的事情，但是第二句作者用了一個(gè)but作為轉(zhuǎn)折，可知作者想表達(dá)與不幸相反的意思，故選C

【2】D；考查動(dòng)詞詞組。A. share with和……分享 B. play with同……一起玩耍 C. toy with玩弄 D. fight with與……作戰(zhàn)；句意：我的父母和老師鼓勵(lì)我同失明作斗爭。根據(jù)句意，故選D

【3】B；考查動(dòng)詞。根據(jù)第二段的開頭：The hardest lesson可知“我”要學(xué)習(xí)的最難得課程便是相信“我”自己。故選B

【4】A；考查副詞。A. simply簡單地 B. slightly輕微地 C. frequently頻繁地 D. directly直接地；句意：當(dāng)我對自己講要相信自己的時(shí)候，我不僅僅是在簡單地講那種能夠幫助我單獨(dú)下不熟悉樓梯時(shí)的那種自信。那只是一部分。根據(jù)句意，故選A

【5】C；考查形容詞。根據(jù)上下文和句意：當(dāng)我對自己講要相信自己的時(shí)候，我不僅僅是在簡單地講那種能夠幫助我單獨(dú)下不熟悉樓梯時(shí)的那種自信。那只是一部分。故選C

【6】B；考查動(dòng)詞。A. lengthen使延長，加長 B. strengthen加強(qiáng)，鞏固 C. deepen加深，變深 D. widen變寬；根據(jù)后文：It had to start with the most basic things.可知“我”在慢慢尋找和加強(qiáng)上文所說的“我”需要的那種自信，故選B

【7】A；考查形容詞。根據(jù)此句的前半句：I thought he was making fun of me可知“我”覺得那個(gè)男人在取笑“我”于是“我”感到很受傷，故選A

【8】D；考查動(dòng)詞�！拔摇钡难劬σ呀�(jīng)失明，當(dāng)那個(gè)男人叫我把球拋出去的時(shí)候“我”看不見，只能用耳朵去聽它的動(dòng)向。故選D

【9】C；考查名詞。句意：這給了我一個(gè)主意：怎樣去完成我之前覺得不可能的事情。根據(jù)句意，故選C

【10】B；考查動(dòng)詞。根據(jù)上一段：This gave me an how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible…可知“我”努力去實(shí)現(xiàn)“我”給自己所設(shè)立的目標(biāo)。故選B

【11】C；考查動(dòng)詞。因?yàn)椤拔摇钡木窒扌�，所以“我”知道完成給自己所設(shè)定的目標(biāo)沒有好處和不可能一蹴而就，因?yàn)椤拔摇睍?huì)嘗到失敗的苦澀。但這失敗是短暫的，故選C

【12】D；考查動(dòng)詞搭配。Make progress取得成功。雖然多次失敗，但最后“我”還是會(huì)成功，實(shí)現(xiàn)我給自己所設(shè)定的目標(biāo)。故選D