天津西青区高考英语阅读理解专题一轮练习及答案.doc

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项。 I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head．Now I am thirty two．I can slightly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is．It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity（灾难） can do strange things to people．It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadnt been blind．I believe in life now．I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise．I dont mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes．I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left． The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself．That was basic．If I hadnt been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life．When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone．That is part of it．But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate（错综复杂的） pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit． It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance．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 cant use this． I said．Take it with you, he urged me, and roll it around． The words stuck 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 impossible: playing baseball．At Philadelphias Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball．We 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 learn my limitations．It was no good trying for something that I knew at the st