Unit 2 The United Kingdom grammar课时作业

Ⅰ.完形填空

(2017·南通中学高二检测)

　　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 self­confidence 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