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