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5．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 slightly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is．It would be wonderful to see again，but a calamity（灾难）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 totally confused 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（错综复杂的） 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 simplest things．Once a man gave me an indoor baseball．I thought he was making fun of 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 trying for something that 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．
41．What can we learn from the first paragraph？C
A．The author lost his sight because of a car crash．
B．The author wouldn't love life if the disaster hadn't happened．
C．The disaster made the author appreciate what he had．
D．The disaster strengthened the author's desire to see．
42．What's the author's biggest difficulty？B
A．How to adjust himself to reality．
B．Building up assurance that he can fit in life．
C．Learning to manage his life alone．
D．How to invent a successful variation of baseball．
43．The underlined words"a chair rocker on the front porch"in Paragraph 3 means that the authorC．
A．would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life
B．would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair
C．would lose his will to struggle against difficulties
D．would sit in a chair and stay at home
44．As can be seen from the passage，the baseball and encouragement offered by the manD．
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
45．Which can be the best title for the passage？C
A．A Miserable Life                
B．Struggle Against Difficulties
C．A Disaster Makes a Strong Person
D．An Unforgettable Experience．

Answer 1

分析 本文讲述了灾难挫折是如何成就一个人的．作者在年幼时失明，在经历了多年的彷徨无助之后，终于在亲人朋友的帮助下，找回了自信，学会了如何面对困难，并且在纷杂的社会中找到了自己的一席之地，实现了自己一个又一个的梦想．

解答 41．C 推理判断题． 根据文章第一段的内容，尤其是"I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left．"可知，灾难让作者感激他所拥有的，故选C．
42．B 细节理解题．根据文章第三段的"The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself．"可知作者需要学会的是自信，和下文的"that somewhere in the sweeping，intricatepattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit．"可知，对作者来说在纷杂的社会找到适合自己的位置是最难的，故选B．
43．C 词义猜测题．从上文可知作者是因为意外而失明，所以collapsed是指精神的崩溃，意志的消沉，从而失去与困难作斗争的勇气．故选C．
44．D 推理判断题．根据文章倒数第二段的"Once a man gave me an indoor baseball．"有一次一个人给了我一个室内棒球．和"This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible：playing baseball．"可知，作者在滚动球的时候想到了如何去实现一个自己认为是不可能的事情，所以他是受到了启迪，因此棒球和鼓励都是那个激励作者的人提供的，故选D．
45．C主旨大意题．文章开头讲述了自己的遭遇，提出"a calamity can do strange things to people．"然后叙述自己是如何找到自信，如何克服困难一步一步取得成功的．这些都说明了一个道理：只要意志坚强，逆境挫折不会击垮一个人，相反会成就一个人，故选C．

点评 本文是人物故事类阅读，主要考查细节理解题和推理判断题．在做事实细节题时，首先根据题目要求迅速在文章里找出相应的段落、句子或短语．认真比较选项和文中细节的区别，在做推理判断题时不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实，要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断．