Unit 4 Sharing Language points课时作业

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　　I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a goods yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I can dimly remember the　1　 of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a(n) 　2　 can do strange things to people.

　　It　3　 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, 　4　. I don't mean that I would prefer to 　5　 without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had 　6　.

　　Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of　7　 to reality. In 　8　 of the fact that they are never easy, I had my parents and teachers to help me. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have 　9　 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 　10　 the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an 　11　staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that, an assurance that I am, despite　12　, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself 　13　.

　　It took me years to discover and　14　 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 hurt. "I can't use this." I said. "Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around." The words 　15　 in my head. "Roll it around!" By rolling the ball I could hear where it 　16　. 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 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 achieve them, one at a time. I had to learn my　18　. It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of 　19　because that only　20　 the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.