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       the brightness of sunshine. It would be         to see again, but a       can do strange things to people. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the       of them made me           more what I had.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustmentsto reality. The more quickly a person is able to make these adjustments, the more             his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never          . I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—the            to live—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to            against blindness.
The hardest            I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of          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,            person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and         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            me, “and roll it around.” The words           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         : playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I            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           . It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach            that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would         sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.

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A．importance B．value C．loss D．attention

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