Question

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in 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 (災(zāi)難)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 hadn’t been blind . I believe in life now.I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply , otherwise. I don’t mean that would prefer to go without my eyes . I simply mean that Atlantic the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left .

Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me--a potential to live, you might call it--which I didn't see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.

The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadn't 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（錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的） 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 can't 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 Philadelphia's 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 start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.

1.We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______

A. the author lost his sight because of a car crash.

B. the author wouldn't love life if the disaster didn't happen.

C. the disaster made the author appreciate what he had.

D. the disaster strengthened the author's desire to see.

2.What's the most difficult thing for the author?

A. How to adjust himself to reality.

B. Building up assurance that he can find his place in life.

C. Learning to manage his life alone.

D. How to invent a successful variation of baseball.

3.According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author __________

A. would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.

B. would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair.

C. would lose his will to struggle against difficulties.

D. would sit in a chair and stay at home.

4.According to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man _____

A. hurt the author's feeling.

B. gave the author a deep impression.

C. directly led to the invention of ground ball.

D. inspired the author.

5.What is the best title for the passage?

A. A Miserable Life

B. Struggle Against Difficulties

C. A Disaster Makes a Strong Person

D. An Unforgettable Experience

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.B

3.C

4.D

5.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了災(zāi)難挫折是如何成就一個(gè)人的。作者在年幼時(shí)失明，在經(jīng)歷了多年的彷徨無助之后，終于在親人朋友的幫助下，找回了自信，學(xué)會(huì)了如何面對(duì)困難，并且在紛雜的社會(huì)中找到了自己的一席之地，實(shí)現(xiàn)了自己一個(gè)又一個(gè)的夢(mèng)想。

1.C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。 文章第一段It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind .那天我突然想到如果我沒有失明的話我可能不會(huì)像現(xiàn)在這樣愛上生活，由此判斷C選項(xiàng)正確。

2.B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從文章第三段 The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. 可知作者需要學(xué)會(huì)的是自信，而且下文從that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.也可知道對(duì)作者來說在紛雜的社會(huì)找的適合自己的位置是最難的，故B選項(xiàng)正確。

3.C詞意猜測(cè)題。從上文可知作者是因?yàn)橐馔舛�失明，所以下文的collapsed是指精神的崩潰，意志的消沉，從而失去面對(duì)困難挫折的勇氣。故判斷C選項(xiàng)正確。

4.D 推理判斷題。從文章倒數(shù)第二行This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball.可知，作者在滾動(dòng)球的時(shí)候想到了如何去實(shí)現(xiàn)一個(gè)自己認(rèn)為是不可能的事情，所以他是受到了啟發(fā)，由此判斷D選項(xiàng)正確。

5.C主旨大意題。文章開頭講述了自己的遭遇，提出a calamity can do strange things to people .然后敘述自己是如何找到自信，如何克服困難一步一步取得成功的。這些都說明了一個(gè)道理：只要意志堅(jiān)強(qiáng)，逆境挫折不會(huì)擊垮一個(gè)人，相反會(huì)成就一個(gè)人，所以C選擇正確。

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