江苏省扬州市安宜高级中学2015届高三D部英语限时训练卷41

安宜高级中学2015届高三D部英语限时训练四十一

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I. 完形填空

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty two. I can 1 remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a 2 can do strange things to people. It 3 to me the other day that I might not have come to 4 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 5 of them made me appreciate more 6 I had left

Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of 7 to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me----a 8 to live, you might call it---- which I didn't see, and they made me want to fight it out with 9 .

The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have 10 and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say 11 _ in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, 12 imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the complex 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 most 13 things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was 14 me and I was 15 . “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words 16 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 17 : playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I 18 a successful game of baseball, which we called ground ball.

All my life I have set ahead of me a series of 19 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 absolutely 20 because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.

1. A. deliberately B. definitely C. vaguely D. clearly

2. A. catastrophe B. catalogue C. caution D. category

3. A. struck B. occurred C. hit D. referred

4. A. determine B. hate C. influence D. love

5. A. confidence B. darkness C. misery D. loss

6. A. who B. where C. what D. why

7. A. adjustments B. assumptions C. attractions D. appointments

8. A. purpose B. potential C. pressure D. preparation

9. A. sight B. baseball C. blindness D. adaptation

10. A. acknowledged B. collapsed C. appreciated D. criticized

11. A. belief B. information C. understanding D. research

12. A. despite B. regardless C. beneath D. in spite

13. A. extreme B. elementary C. explicit D. efficient

14. A. abusing B. encouraging C. teasing D. laughing

15. A. injured B. worried C. disappointed D. hurt

16. A. stuck B. impressed C. occupied D. held

17. A. useless B. dull C. uninteresting D. impossible

18. A. made B. produced C. invented D. discovered

19. A. promises B. purposes C. intentions D. goals

20. A. out of control B. out of question C. out of sight D. out of reach

II.阅读理解

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Hours—The Capitol Visitor Center is open to visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday