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I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can’t remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is clearly. It would be ________ to see again, but a disaster can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would ________ to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate(珍惜)more what I had ________ .

My parents and my teachers saw something in me---a potential(潜能)to live---which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with blindness.

The ________ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I ________ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, although being imperfect, a real, positive(积极的)person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.

It took me years to discover and strengthen this confidence. It had to start with the easy and simple things, ________ a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was ________ . “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he encouraged me, “and roll it around.” The words were always 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 ________ before; playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I ________ a successful skill of baseball. We called it ground ball.

I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my limitations(限制). It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, ________ on the average(平均)I made progress.

1.A. helpful B. wonderful C. hopeful D. successful

2.A. fail B. try C. want D. prefer

3.A. lost B. left C. used D. cared

4.A. hardest B. boring C. simplest D. easiest

5.A. think B. consider C. guess D. mean

6.A. Later B. Soon C. Once D. Then

7.A. worried B. hurt C. shocked D. encouraged

8.A. important B. unimportant C. possible D. impossible

9.A. invented B. discovered C. ordered D. directed

10.A. so B. for C. but D. and

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People who speak or perform (表演) before the public sometimes may suffer from (经受) "Stage Fright" (怯场). Stage fright makes a person ____________. In that case it can make one's mind go back and forget _________ one should say or to act. Actors, musicians, dancers, lawyers, even radio show hosts suffered from stage fright at one time or _____________.

Diana Nichols is an expert in helping people free from stage fright at a medical center in New York City. She helps actors learn to _________ themselves. Miss Nichols says some people have always been afraid to perform before the audience. Others, she says, develop stage fright after a sad __________.

She offers them ways to control the fear. One way is to smile before going onto the stage. Taking two deep breaths _______ helps. Deep breathing helps you get control of your body.

Miss Nichols advises her patients to tell themselves that their speech or performance does not have to be perfect. It's __________ to make a mistake. She tells them they should not be too nervous while they are performing. It is important that they should continue to perform while she is helping them. After each performance, they discuss what happened and ________ what helped and what did not. _________ they perform more and more, they will fear less and less as much as 50%. Miss Nichols says the aim (目的) is only to __________ stage fright, not to smooth it away completely. This is because a little stage fright makes a person more careful, and improves the performance.

1.A. joyful B. proud C. nervous D. hopeless

2.A. when B. what C. how D. whether

3.A. others B. other C. another D. the other

4.A. cure B. control C. hold D. protect

5.A. experience B. activity C. process D. event

6.A. usually B. too C. also D. sometimes

7.A. sure B. terrible C. necessary D. all right

8.A. put out B. find out C. look for D. search for

9.A. As B. While C. Before D. Until

10.A. change B. produce C. improve D. reduce

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