I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely(模糊地) 　1　 the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see things again, 　2　 a disaster can do strange things to people. It happened to me the other day that I might not have come to love 　3　 as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not sure that I would believe in it so 　4　. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I 　5　 mean that the loss of 　6　 made me enjoy more of 　7　 I have now.
Life asks us to keep making 　8　 to reality. If a person is able to get ready for anything changeable his world will 　9　 more meaningful. I became blind, but I was 　10　. My parents and my teachers saw 　11　 in me－a potential(潛力) to live, you might call it－which I didn’t see, and they make me fight it out with blindness.
The hardest 　12　 I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was what I had to do at least. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would become a chair rocker for the 　13　 of my life. When I say I believe in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase 　14　. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: A belief that I could deal with anything alone; that somewhere in the 　15　 there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
1. A. imagine       B. find             C. remember     D. guess
2. A. but           B. though               C. so           D. because
3. A. myself       B. life             C. eyes         D. blindness
4. A. that         B. therefore            C. happily      D. deeply
5. A. seldom        B. just             C. hardly           D. always
6. A. them      B. it                   C. blindness        D. light
7. A. that         B. what             C. which            D. where
8. A. moments      B. encouragements       C. improvements D. changes
9. A. become        B. change               C. look         D. end
10. A. brave        B. lucky                C. sad          D. wise
11. A. something    B. everything           C. nothing      D. anything
12. A. problem      B. experience           C. difficulty       D. lesson
13. A. rest     B. whole                C. need         D. last
14. A. lonely       B. alone                C. self         D. person
15. A. company  B. group                C. society  (社會)   D. family

小題1:C
小題1:A
小題1:B
小題1:D
小題1:B
小題1:A
小題1:B
小題1:D
小題1:A
小題1:B
小題1:A
小題1:D
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小題1:C

小題1:考查動詞辨析。作者眼睛失明，還能模糊記得陽光的明亮和紅色。故選C。
小題1:考查并列連詞。本句表示的是轉(zhuǎn)折，though常放句尾。故選A。
小題1:根據(jù)下句I believe in life now可知，作者認(rèn)識到自己對生活的熱愛。故選B。
小題1:考查副詞辨析。deeply“深深地”，作者深信生活。故選D。
小題1:考查副詞。A“很少”；B“只是”；C“幾乎不”；D“總是”。作者的意思只是說，失去雙目讓作者懂得珍惜所有。故選B。
小題1:聯(lián)系上一句的eyes可知，這里指代的是眼睛，用them。故選A。
小題1:考查賓語從句。Of后的賓語從句缺少賓語，用what。故選B。
小題1:根據(jù)下句的changeable可知，作者強調(diào)的是改變。故用change。故選D。
小題1:考查動詞辨析。A“變得”；B“改變”；C“看”；D“結(jié)束”。Become是系動詞，后加形容詞作表語。故選A。
小題1:根據(jù)下句可知，作者的父母和老師發(fā)覺了作者的潛能，說明作者是幸運的。故選B。
小題1:考查不定代詞。作者的父母和老師在作者身上發(fā)現(xiàn)一些東西--生活的潛力。故選A。
小題1:考查固定短語。learn a lesson“得到教訓(xùn)”。故選D。
小題1:考查固定搭配。the rest of life“余下的生命”。故選A。
小題1:考查形容詞辨析。Lonely“孤獨的”；alone“單獨的”。這里指作者自己一人下樓梯。故選B。
小題1:作者相信，在社會上，有適合作者的一個地方。故選C。
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