Unit 3 Computers grammar课时作业

Ⅰ.完形填空

　　I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty­two. I can __1__ remember the brightness of sunshine and what colour red is. It would be wonderful to see again，but a ___2___can do strange things to people. It ____3____to me the other day that I might not have come to ___4___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 I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the ___5___of them made me appreciate more ____6 __I had left.

　　Life，I believe，asks a continuous series of ____7____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. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me- a ____8____to live，you might call it- which I didn't see，and they made me want to fight it out with ___9_____.

　　The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn't been able to do that，I would have ____10____and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say ___11____in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self­ confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am，___12____imperfections，a real，positive person; that somewhere in the complex 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 most ___13____things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was ____14___me and I was____15____."I can't use this，"I said. "Take it with you，"he urged me，"and roll it around."The words ___16____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 ___17_：playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I ____18____a successful game of baseball. We called it ground ball.

　　All my life I have set ahead of me a series of ____19____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 absolutely ____20____ because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.

1．A. strongly B．definitely

C．vaguely D．clearly

答案　C