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【题目】Two weeks before my 12th birthday, my teacher asked me to conduct an experiment. When I mixed some powder together, they exploded. Molten liquid hit me in the face, but I felt no pain.

I vividly remember standing there in a state of calm. I thought I was in a dream, but however hard I struggled to swim to the surface of consciousness, I couldn’t wake up. I didn’t understand how terrifying it was until I heard people saying, ＂Who’s that?＂ That’s when I knew I was unrecognizable.

I was taken to hospital, but the doctors didn’t know what to do with me. Later I was flown to Houston for surgery. Between the ages of 13 and 16, I had 40 operations. As each operation came and went, my vision would come back, then fade again. Eventually, it faded completely and I had what was left of my eyes removed for cosmetic reasons.

Since then, I have lived in total darkness. Most blind people, even if they don’t have any sight they’re aware of, are still able to sense light. That gives them a sense of day and night. But not me. I absolutely lost that sense of time passing.

For many years, I felt my sight loss darkening my life like the loss of my parents from which I would never recover. But when I was in my 40s, I realized I had to find a way to live. I trained to become a counselor, and that has helped me see my experiences in a different way. I can’t fix people’s broken lives — just like I can’t fix my sight — but I can help them find a way to manage.

Sometimes it feels as if all the struggles and negative experiences I’ve lived through were in fact a kind of preparation for helping others to make their own way towards the light.

【1】How did the writer feel when the mixed powder exploded?

A. Painful. B. Frightened. C. Calm. D. Desperate.

【2】 What can we know about the writer?

A. She recovered her sight at last.

B. She just has slight sense of sight.

C. She is now living a meaningful life.

D. She received 40 operations in 28 years.

【3】What is the passage mainly about?

A. Telling her own experience.

B. Encouraging the blind to cheer up.

C. Calling on people to care for the blind.

D. Warning students doing experiments is dangerous.

Answer 1

【答案】一般

【解析】

【文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文，作者在学校做实验的时候，化学药品发生爆炸，不幸双目失明，在多年庸庸碌碌的生活后，作者决定用自己的经历和自己对生活的感悟去帮助别人。

【1】C细节理解题。根据第二段首句I vividly remember standing there in a state of calm.可知作者在爆炸时很冷静，故选C。

【2】C 推理判断题。根据文章末段可知，作者开始帮助别人，作者的生活也变得有意义起来，故选C。

【3】A 推理判断题。本文主要讲述了作者失明的经过以及自己对生活态度的转变，故选A。