初三英语阅读强化练习四.doc

初三英语阅读强化练习四 I. 完形填空 A Disaster Makes a Strong Person 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 1 the brightness of sunshine. It would be 2 to see again, but a 3 can do strange things to people. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the 4 of them made me 5 the more what I had. Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more quickly a person is able to make these adjustments, the more 6 his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never 7 . I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—the 8 to live—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to 9 against blindness. The hardest 10 I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of 11 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, 12 person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit. It took me years to discover and 13 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 14 me, “and roll it around.” The words 15 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 16 : playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I 17 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 18 . It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildl