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  3. 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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问题     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.
According to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man________.
选项 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.
答案D
解析 推理判断题。关于棒球的事件在第四段三到八句，该段倒数第二、三句提到，这件事给了我一个实现打棒球这个不可能实现的目标的想法，之后我发明了一种名为“地滚球”的棒球新打法。即这里提到的棒球和鼓励，不仅仅给作者留下了深刻的印象，更重要的是作者从中受到了启发，故D项为答案，同时排除B项。作者是受启发之后才发明了地滚球，故排除C项。该段第三、四句指出，作者以为男人在嘲笑他，故而伤心，并不是男人的鼓励伤害了作者，故排除A项。
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