英語專四閱讀理解模擬題：失明

專四考試對於英語專業的學習者來說是第一個大挑戰，也是必須要邁過的坎，而在考試中佔大比例的閱讀就成了決勝的關鍵，快來和小編一起做做練習吧！

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.

1．[c]細節判斷題。第l段最後一句指出“所失去的讓我更懂得珍惜現在擁有的”，故選c。作者失明是因爲他從一輛貨車(box car)a摔下來，而不是因爲汽車事故，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，儘管不是完美的……堅信自己可以找到一個適合自己的位置”，故選b。a太籠統；由第2段可知他的生活並不是孤單的，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，變成一個坐在輪椅裏的廢人了，在門廊前度此餘生”，由此可知c正確。

4．[d]細節判斷題。根據baseball定位到倒數第2段。從該段最後兩句可知棒球和那個男人的鼓勵給作者以啓示和鼓舞．從而發明了一種叫“滾球”的運動，故選d。該段提到作者以爲那個男人是在嘲諷他，但後來在他的激勵下有所啓發，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啓發。

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