--- What do you think of _____ suggestion?  

--- Well, ______ most splendid one indeed.  

A. 不填; the          B. 不填; a           C. the; a         D. the; the  

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    1so much, as I do now, if I hadn't been    2. I don't mean that l would prefer to go with no sight. I simply mean that the   3of it made me 4more what I had left. 

Life，I believe，   5a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more   6a person is able to make these adjustments，the more    7his life becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I had to   8in myself，or else 1 would have collapsed（崩溃）. When I say belief in myself，I am not talking about simply the kind of    9that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. But I    10something bigger than that：an assurance that I am，despite imperfections，a real，   11person. 

It took me years to discover and    12this assurance. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was   13. “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   14the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to    15a goal I had thought impossible：playing baseball. At Philadelphia School for the Blind I invented a successful   16of baseball. We call it Ground Ball.

All my life I have set ahead of me a series of    17and then tried to reach them, one at a time. But I had to be aware of my   18. It was no good to try for something that I knew at the start was out of   19because that only invited the bitterness of   20. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress. 

1.A. darkness       B. life           C. freedom         D. nature

2.A. cured          B. deaf           C. blind           D. brave

3.A. remaining      B. use            C. recovery        D. loss

4.A. appreciate     B. challenge      C. suffer          D. use

5.A. asks           B. causes         C. lacks           D. directs

6.A. abruptly       B. simply         C. cautiously      D. readily

7.A. rich           B. meaningful     C. complex         D. helpful

8.A. believe        B. give           C. take            D. turn

9.A. independence   B. confidence     C. diligence       D. weakness

10.A. mean          B. have           C. produce         D. hide

11.A. disabled      B. reasonable     C. fearless        D. positive

12.A. strengthen    B. prove          C. remove          D. present

13.A. scolded       B. cheated        C. benefited       D. hurt

14.A. taking        B. rolling        C. hitting         D. passing

15.A. shoot         B. describe       C. imagine         D. achieve

16.A. occupation    B. variation      C. competition     D. qualification

17.A. goals         B. games          C. balls           D. examples

18.A. intelligence  B. virtues        C. advantages      D. limitations

19.A. breath        B. reach          C. power           D. sight

20.A. failure                         B. sickness        C. ignorance          D. success

 The house still needed a lot of work, but ___ the kitchen was finished.

A. instead                   B. altogether                      C. at once                  D. at least

 Let’s learn to use the problem we are facing ________ a stepping-stone to future success.

A. to                     B. for                    C. as                            D. by

 If you really have to leave during the meeting, you’d better leave ____ the back door.

A. for     B. by     C. across     D. out

 Leaves are found on all kinds of trees, but they differ greatly         size and shape.

A. on    B. from    C. by    D. in

 Scientists are convinced    the positive effect of laughter   physical and mental health.

A. of; at     B. by; in     C. of; on       D. on; at

 Are you ready for Spain?

Yes. 1 want the girls to experience that______they are young.

A. while                       B. until                        C. if                            D. before

 When she first arrived in China, she wondered what the future might have_______ for her, but now all her worries are gone.

A. in need      B. in time     C. in preparation     D. in store

 -How amazing it is that astronauts are exploring outer space!  

-It’s a challenge, I guess,            man against nature.  

A. of         B. for             C. by           D. about