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高2013级定时阅读训练 () (时间40分钟,总分0分) ----By Bacon I. 完形填空（共20题；每小题1.5分, 满分30分） 阅读下面短文,掌握其大意, 从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of and what color red is. It would be 2 to see again, but a(n) 3 can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would 4 to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had 5 . My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a 6 to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight it out with 7 . The 8 lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of 9 that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I 10 something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being 11 , a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit. It took me years to discover and strengthen this confidence. It had to start with the easy and simple things. 12 a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was 13 . “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words 14 in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could 15 where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought 16 before playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind, I 17 a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball. 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 18 . It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was 19 out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail in something anyway, 20 on the average I made progress. 1. A. sky B. cloud C. sunshine D. mist 2. A. helpful B. wonderful C. hopef