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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. No
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. No
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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 vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity 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 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.
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 bewildered 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 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 elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was mocking 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 to try 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 made progress.
We can learn from the beginning of the passage that________.
选项
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.
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。第一段第一句提到,作者四岁时从车上摔下来,因为头先着地,失明了,但并没有说是因为撞车而导致的失明,A项表述错误。该段第四、五句提到,作者如果不是盲人,他或许不会像现在这样热爱生活,而不是他不热爱生活,故排除B项;该段最后一句提到,失去视力使作者更加珍惜他所拥有的其他的东西,C项表述正确,为答案;原文并未表明灾难加强了他重见光明的渴望,故排除D项。
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