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A Disaster Makes a Strong Person I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can still   41   the brightness of sunshine. It would be   42   to see again, but a   43   can do strange things to people. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the   44   of them made me   45   more what I had. Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more quickly a person is able to make these adjustments, the more   46   his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never   47  . I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—the   48   to live—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to   49   against blindness. The hardest   50   I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of   51   that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: the confidence that I am, despite being imperfect, a real,   52   person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit. It took me years to discover and   53   this confidence. It had to start with the simplest things. 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   54   me, “and roll it around.” The words  55   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   56  : playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I   57   a successful variation of baseball and I called it ground ball. All my life 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   58  . It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach   59   that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would   60  sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress. 41. A. remember B. affect C. measure D. bring 42. A. possible B. wonderful C. hopeful D. reasonable 43. A. question B. mistake C. disaster D. situation 44. A. importance           B. value C. loss D. attention 45. A. record B. expect C. offer D. appreciate 46. A. natural        B. modern C. meaningful D. challenging 47. A. necessary B. easy C. difficult D. practical 48. A. right             B. plan C. place D. potential 49. A. guard         B. hit C. argue D. fight 50. A. game           B. skill C. lesson D. knowledge 51. A. self-control B. self-confidence C. self-defense D. self-improvement 52. A. modest              B. energetic C. generous D. positive 53. A. strengthen                   B. express C. share D. destroy 54. A. urged                      B. blamed C. respected D. admired 55. A. held           B. stuck C. bothered D. knocked 56. A. important                             B. specific C. common D. impossible 57. A. invented                  B. confirmed C. checked D. noticed 58. A. interest              B. limitation C. experience D. responsibility 59. A. once                B. unless C. because D. though 60. A. fail                   B. try C. act D. continue 答案：ABCCD  CBDDC   BDAAB  DABCA

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