I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my head. Now

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 vaguely remember the brightness of 36 and what color red is. It would be 37 to see again, but a(n) 38 can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would 39 to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate more what I had _40 .
My parents and my teachers saw something in me ----- a 41 to live ---- which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with _42 .
The 43 lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of 44 that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I 45 something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, despite being 46 , a real, positive 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. 47 a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was 48 . “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words 49 in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could _50 where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought _51 before playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I _52 a successful variation 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 _53 . It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was 54 out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, 55 on the average I made progress.
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(答案→)C 解析： 本文讲述一位盲人因一次意外事故失明后如何克服困难，重新定位自己，取得人生价值的故事【小题1】词语搭配，根据brightness可知，此处讲的是阳光的明媚，明亮 【小题2】句意理解，如果能再次看到将会是非常棒的。【小题3】上下文，此处指的就是上文提到的失去眼睛的一次事故，对他来说就是一场灾难。【小题4】句意理解，但是一场灾难会对人造成奇怪的影响，我并不是说我更喜欢看不见东西，我只是说，失去了双眼让我更加懂得欣赏/感激我所剩下的。【小题5】同上【小题6】句意理解，我的老师和父母都看到我生存下来的可能性，purpose目的 pressure压力preparation准备，【小题7】上下文，根据上文可知，作者失去了双眼，因此他是瞎的，【小题8】句意理解，我要学习的第一课就是要相信自己，我并不是仅仅说那种自信。【小题9】上下文，根据上文的believe in myself可知，此处讲的是自信，【小题10】句意理解，我说的不仅仅是从不熟悉的楼梯上下楼的那种自信，我意思是比那个更大一些的东西【小题11】上下文，根据上文可知，作者是一个盲人，一次是一个不完美的人【小题12】句意理解，此处是作者在讲一件事情，一次一个人给 了我一个室内棒球。【小题13】上下文，根据上一句的I thought he was laughing at me可知，作者认为那人在嘲笑他，因此他很受伤【小题14】词组，stick in 一位插入，此处一位他的话深深地印在了我的心中。【小题15】上下文，因为作者是一个盲人，因此他判断球在哪里只能靠听【小题16】句意理解，这给了我一种想法，我可以实现我以前认为不可能的一些目标【小题17】上下文，根据后文的a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball可知，这是一种全新的，他们自己命名的，因此是他发明的、。【小题18】句意理解，我要清楚我的局限性，指的是作者眼睛看不见【小题19】句意理解，我明白了，对于那些从开始就得不到的东西，哭是没有用的，wildly意为非常【小题20】句意理解，不管怎样，我会在某件事情上失败的，但是总的来说，我还是进步了

我明天再问问老师，叫他解释下这个问题