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 __36____ and what color red is. It would be ___37____ to see again, but a(n) __38____ can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would __39___ to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had _40_____.
My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a __41____ to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with _42____.
The __43___ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of __44____ that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I __45___ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being __46____, 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. __47____ a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was __48____. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words __49___ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could _50_____ where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought _51____ before playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I _52___ 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 _53____. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was __54___ out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, __55___ on the average I made progress.

A．sky B．cloud C．sunshine D．mist

A．helpful B．wonderful C．hopeful D．successful

A．disaster B．environment C．incident D．wonder

A．manage B．try C．want D．prefer

A．lost B．left C．used D．cared

A．purpose B．potential C．pressure D．preparation

A．energy B．happiness C．luck D．blindness

A．hardest B．dullest C．simplest D．easiest

A．self-respect B．self-control C．self-confidence D．self-defence

A．think B．consider C．guess D．mean

A．imperfect B．perfect C．unfair D．fair

A．Later B．Soon C．Once D．Then

A．worried B．encouraged C．shocked D．hurt

A．stuck B．impressed C．occupied D．held

A．see B．hear C．notice D．observe

A．important B．unimportant C．possible D．impossible

A．invented B．discovered C．instructed D．directed

A．experience B．advantages C．knowledge D．limitation

A．hardly B．wildly C．highly D．deeply

A．so B．for C．but D．and