2017英語專業(yè)四級閱讀理解練習(4)

　　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 vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity 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 bewildered 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 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 elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was mocking 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 to try for something 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.

　　1. We can learn from the beginning of the passage that

　　A. the author lost his sight because of a car crash.

　　B. the author wouldn„t love life if the disaster didn't happen.

　　C. the disaster made the author appreciate what he had.

　　D. the disaster strengthened the author's desire to see.

　　2. What's the most difficult thing for the author?

　　A. How to adjust himself to reality.

　　B. Building up assurance that he can find his place in life.

　　C. Learning to manage his life alone.

　　D. To find a special work that suits the author.

　　3. According to the context, "a chair rocker on the front porch" in paragraph 3 means that the author

　　A. would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life.

　　B. was paralyzed and stayed in a rocking chair.

　　C. would lose his will to struggle against difficulties.

　　D. would sit in a chair and stay at home.

　　4. According to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man

　　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.

　　5. According to the passage, which of the following is CORRECT?

　　A. The author set goals for himself but only invited failure most of the time.

　　B. The author suggested not trying something beyond one's ability at the beginning.

　　C. The bitterness of failure prevented the author from trying something out of reach.

　　D. Because of his limitations, the author tried to reach one goal at a time.

　　【文章概要】

　　講述一位盲人因一次意外事故失明后如何克服困難，重新定位自己，取得人生價值的故事。第1段敘述作者因一次意外事故失明，但失明沒有使他喪失對生活的信心，反而讓他更懂得珍惜他所擁有的東西;第2—4段講述他如何走出陰影，最終找到了自己的位置，并發(fā)明了滾球 (ground ball);最后一段總結他的成功經驗，即在生活中不斷給自己設立目標并為之而奮斗。

　　【答案解析】

　　1.[C]細節(jié)判斷題。第l段最后一句指出“所失去的讓我更懂得珍惜現在擁有的”，故選C。作者失明是因為他從一輛貨車(box car)A摔下來，而不是因為汽車事故，故排除A;B的推斷沒有原文依據;文中提到他渴望重見光明。D的表述與原文有出入。

　　2.[B]細節(jié)判斷題。the most difficult thin9是The hardest lesson的同義改寫，故可定位到第3段。該段首句指出最困難的事情是“相信自己”，But所在的句子做了更具體的解釋即“對自己的一種堅信，我還是 我，盡管不是完美的……堅信自己可以找到一個適合自己的位置”，故選B。A太籠統(tǒng);由第2段可知他的生活并不是孤單的，他還有父母、老師等的支持，故C錯 誤;D文中沒有提到。

　　3.[C]句意理解題。本題可用排除法。第3段第3句提到，“如果我不堅信自己，我會崩潰，變成一個坐在輪椅里的廢人了，在門廊前度此余生”，由此可知C正確。

　　4.[D]細節(jié)判斷題。根據baseball定位到倒數第2段。從該段最后兩句可知棒球和那個男人的鼓勵給作者以啟示和鼓舞.從而發(fā)明了一種叫“滾球”的運動，故選D。該段提到作者以為那個男人是在嘲諷他，但后來在他的激勵下有所啟發(fā)，故A錯誤;B“給作者留下了深刻印象”在文中沒有提及;C中的directly錯誤，男人的話只是給了作者啟發(fā)。

　　5.[B]細節(jié)判斷題。最后一段第2、3句表明我們要意識到自己的局限性，在開始時嘗試那些遙不可及的東西只會徒勞無益，故B正確;由該段第1句和最后一句可知作者為自己不斷設立目標并實現了大部分的目標，故A錯誤：最后一句的anyway but可知C錯誤;文中并沒有指出他每次嘗試一個目標是因為他自己的局限，故D屬干隨意捏造。