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I lost my sight when I was four by falling off a box car in a freight(货物)yard in Atlantic City. Now I am thirty two. I can slightly remember what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a disaster can do strange things to people. I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.

         Life, I believe, asks constant adjustments to reality. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—a potential to live, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.

         The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself, I mean: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the intricate(错综复杂的) pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.

         It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “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 hear where it went. This gave me an idea 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 I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was out of reach. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.

1.We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______

A. the author lost his sight because of a car crash.             

B. the author wouldn’t love life if the disaster didn’t happen.

C. the disaster made the author appreciate what he had.

D. the disaster strengthened the author’s desire to see.

2.What’s the most difficult thing for the author?

A. How to adjust himself to reality.

B. Building up assurance that he can find his place in life.

C. Learning to manage his life alone.

D. How to invent a new kind of baseball.

3.According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author _________.

A. would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.        

B. would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair.

C. would lose his will to struggle against difficulties.

D. would sit in a chair and stay at home.

4.What is the best title for the passage?

A. A Miserable Life                           B. Struggle Against Difficulties

C. A Disaster Makes a Strong Person          D. An Unforgettable Experience

 

【答案】

 

1.C

2.B

3.C

4.C

【解析】

试题分析:作者因一次意外事故失明后没有丧失对生活的信心,反而让他更懂得珍惜他所拥有的东西。在本文中作者讲述了自己如何走出阴影、如何克服困难,重新定位自己,取得人生价值的故事。他的成功经验就是在生活中要不断给自己设立目标并为之而奋斗。

1.C细节理解题。根据文章首段末句I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.可知作者认为失去的让“我”更懂得珍惜现在拥有的,故答案选C。

2.B推理判断题。根据文章第三段The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself.以及下文可知起初对于作者来说最难的就是要找到自信,那是一种坚信自己在芸芸众生错综复杂的格局当中,自有我一席之地的自信,故答案选B。

3.C词义猜测题。根据上下文可知此处指如果我不坚信自己,我会庸庸碌碌得活下去,但是不会过着像现在这样自信,有价值的生活,由此推断C选项正确。句意:我会变成一个坐在轮椅里的废人了,在门廊前度此余生。

4.C主旨大意题。.根据首段 I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind.和 simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.以及下文的讲述可知失明没有使他丧失对生活的信心,他最终找到了自己的位置,故C选项内容符合文章中心,答案选C。

考点:考查故事类短文阅读。

 

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