【三维设计】（江苏专用）2016届高考英语一轮复习 Unit 3 The world online课时跟踪检测B卷（选修7）.doc

The world online　课时跟踪检测B卷 Ⅰ.完形填空 (2015·淮安高三调研)I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a boxcar in a yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can __1__ remember the brightness of sunshine and what red color is. It would be wonderful to see again, __2__ a disaster can do strange things to people. It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to __3__ 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, __4__. I don?t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me __5__ more what I had left. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was __6__. If I hadn?t been able to do that, I would have __7__ and become a rocker chair for the rest of my life. When I say __8__ in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down a(n) __9__ staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something __10__ than that: an assurance that there is a special place where I can make myself fit. It took me years to discover and __11__ this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball, I thought he was laughing at me and I was __12__. “I can’t use this，” I said. “Take it with you，” he __13__ me, “and roll it around. ”The words __14__ in my head. “ Roll it around！” By rolling the ball I could __15__ 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. We called it ground ball. All my life I have set ahead of me a series of __18__ and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my __19__. It was no good trying for something 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