I lost my sight when I was four years old when falling off a train to Atlantic City．But I was        ．My parents and my teachers saw something in me -a potential to live, you might call it -which I didn't see, and they encouraged me to blindness．      The hardest lesson I had to        was to believe in myself．If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have walked with a stick for the rest of my life．When I say belief in myself I am not          talking about the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an       staircase alone．That is part Although imperfect in some aspect, I place where I can make myself fit．of it．But I mean something bigger than that．am a real! positive person．There is a special It took me years to discover and        this self-confidence．It had to start with the most basic things．Once a man gave me an indoor baseball．I thought he was making fun of me and I was         ．
“I can't use this," I responded．“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        where it went． This gave me an      how to achieve a goal I playing baseball．At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the kind of baseball．We called it ground ball．
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to      one by one．I also knew my limitations．It was no good trying something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only     the bitterness of failure．I  would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made        ．

A．unfortunate B．disappointed C．lucky D．ashamed

A．share with B．play with C．toy with D．fight with

A．meet B．learn C．avoid D．prepare

A．simply B．slightly C．frequently D．directly

A．unusual B．unfair C．unfamiliar D．uncomfortable

A．lengthen B．strengthen C．deepen D．widen

A．hurt B．amused C．greeted D．praised

A．find B．see C．smell D．hear

A．event B．offer C．idea D．excuse

A．receive B．achieve C．classify D．follow

A．refused B．removed C．caused D．replaced

A．sense B．mistakes C．friends D．Progress