I lost my sight when 1 was 4 years old in an accident. Now I'm 32. 

It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love    1so much, as I do now, if I hadn't been    2. I don't mean that l would prefer to go with no sight. I simply mean that the   3of it made me 4more what I had left. 

Life，I believe，   5a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more   6a person is able to make these adjustments，the more    7his life becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I had to   8in myself，or else 1 would have collapsed（崩溃）. When I say belief in myself，I am not talking about simply the kind of    9that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. But I    10something bigger than that：an assurance that I am，despite imperfections，a real，   11person. 

It took me years to discover and    12this assurance. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was   13. “I can't use this，”I said “Take it with you，”he urged me，“and roll it around.” The word stuck in my head. By   14the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to    15a goal I had thought impossible：playing baseball. At Philadelphia School for the Blind I invented a successful   16of baseball. We call it Ground Ball.

All my life I have set ahead of me a series of    17and then tried to reach them, one at a time. But I had to be aware of my   18. It was no good to try for something that I knew at the start was out of   19because that only invited the bitterness of   20. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress. 

1.A. darkness       B. life           C. freedom         D. nature

2.A. cured          B. deaf           C. blind           D. brave

3.A. remaining      B. use            C. recovery        D. loss

4.A. appreciate     B. challenge      C. suffer          D. use

5.A. asks           B. causes         C. lacks           D. directs

6.A. abruptly       B. simply         C. cautiously      D. readily

7.A. rich           B. meaningful     C. complex         D. helpful

8.A. believe        B. give           C. take            D. turn

9.A. independence   B. confidence     C. diligence       D. weakness

10.A. mean          B. have           C. produce         D. hide

11.A. disabled      B. reasonable     C. fearless        D. positive

12.A. strengthen    B. prove          C. remove          D. present

13.A. scolded       B. cheated        C. benefited       D. hurt

14.A. taking        B. rolling        C. hitting         D. passing

15.A. shoot         B. describe       C. imagine         D. achieve

16.A. occupation    B. variation      C. competition     D. qualification

17.A. goals         B. games          C. balls           D. examples

18.A. intelligence  B. virtues        C. advantages      D. limitations

19.A. breath        B. reach          C. power           D. sight

20.A. failure                         B. sickness        C. ignorance          D. success

As I walked home one freezing day, I stumbled(绊脚) on a wallet in the street. I picked it up and looked inside to find some 1so that I could call the owner. But the wallet2only three dollars and a letter, which looked as if it had been in there for years. The envelope was3and the only thing on it was the return address. I started to open the letter,4to find some clue. Then I saw the dateline-1924. The letter had been written almost sixty years earlier! It was written in a beautiful handwriting, on blue paper with a little flower in the left-hand corner. It was a “Dear John”(绝交) letter that told the5, Michael, that the writer could not see him any more because her mother6it. Even so, she wrote that she would7love him. It was signed Hannah.
It was a beautiful letter, but there was no8, except for the name Michael, to identify the owner.9if I called the information center, the operator could find a phone listing for the address on the envelope. Actually, I took great10to find both Hannah and Michael, who still remained single. Then, after sixty years’ separation, they married each other in their late seventies. And I was invited to be their best man!

1. 1.
   1. A.
      identification
   2. B.
      qualification
   3. C.
      recognition
   4. D.
      description
2. 2.
   1. A.
      cost
   2. B.
      filled
   3. C.
      contained
   4. D.
      included
3. 3.
   1. A.
      new
   2. B.
      worn
   3. C.
      pretty
   4. D.
      attractive
4. 4.
   1. A.
      managing
   2. B.
      wondering
   3. C.
      supposing
   4. D.
      hoping
5. 5.
   1. A.
      receiver
   2. B.
      owner
   3. C.
      friend
   4. D.
      partner
6. 6.
   1. A.
      allowed
   2. B.
      forced
   3. C.
      forbade
   4. D.
      promised
7. 7.
   1. A.
      ever
   2. B.
      never
   3. C.
      always
   4. D.
      even
8. 8.
   1. A.
      problem
   2. B.
      way
   3. C.
      mark
   4. D.
      sign
9. 9.
   1. A.
      Only
   2. B.
      Even
   3. C.
      As
   4. D.
      Maybe
10. 10.
    1. A.
       pains
    2. B.
       risks
    3. C.
       actions
    4. D.
       cautions