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1、河北省石家庄市行唐县第三中学2020学年第一学期11月份考试高二英语I阅读理解（共两节，满分40分第一节（共15小题，每小题2 分，满分30分）AI 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 headNow I am thirty twoI can slightly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red isIt would be
2、wonderful to see again, but a calamity（灾难） can do strange things to peopleIt occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadnt been blindI believe in life nowI am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwiseI dont mean that I would prefer to
3、 go without my eyesI simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had leftLife, 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 nev
4、er easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was luck. My parents and my teachers saw something in me-a potential to live, you might call it -which I didnt see, made me want to fight it out with blindness.The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myselfThat was basicIf I hadnt been ab
5、le to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my lifeWhen I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase aloneThat is part of itBut I mean something bigger than that: an
6、assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate（错综复杂的） pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fitIt took me years to discover and strengthen this assuranceIt had to start with the simplest thingsOnce a man gav
7、e me an indoor baseballI thought he was making fun of me and I was hurtI cant use this I saidTake it with you, he urged me, and roll it around The words stuck in my headRoll it around! By rolling the ball I could hear where it wentThis gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible:
8、playing baseballAt Philadelphias Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseballWe called it ground ballAll my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a timeI had to learn my limitationsIt was no good trying for something that I
9、 knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failureI would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress1We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _Athe author lost his sight because of a car crashBthe author wouldnt love life if the di
10、saster didnt happenCthe disaster made the author appreciate what he hadDthe disaster strengthened the authors desire to see2Whats the most difficult thing for the author?A How to adjust himself to realityBBuilding up assurance that he can find his place in lifeCLearning to manage his life aloneDHow
11、to invent a successful variation of baseball3According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author _Awould sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his lifeBwould be unable to move and stay in a rocking chairCwould lose his will to struggle against difficultiesDw
12、ould sit in a chair and stay at home4What is the best title for the passage?AA Miserable LifeBStruggle Against DifficultiesCA Disaster Makes a Strong PersonDAn Unforgettable ExperienceBThe summer I was ten, my mother decided to bring us to the world of art. My brother and I were not very excited whe
13、n we realized what my mother meant. What she meant was not that we could take drawing classes or painting classes but that we would have to spend one afternoon a week with her at the Fine Arts Museum. Before each visit to the museum, she made us read about artists and painting styles(风格). It was alm
14、ost as bad as being in school. Who wants to spend the summer thinking about artists when you could be with your friends at the swimming pool?First we had to read about ancient Egyptians(古埃及人) and their strange way of painting faces and then go to look at them at the museum. My 12-year-old brother th
15、ought this was so funny, but I was not interested. Later we had to learn about artists in the Middle Ages who painted people wearing strange long clothing. We had to look at pictures of fat babies with wings and curly (鬈曲的) hair and with no clothes on flying around the edges of paintings. I certainl
16、y couldnt see what was so great about art.On our last visit to the museum, something happened when I saw a painting by a woman called Mary. In it, a woman was reading to a child. The colors were soft and gentle, and you could tell by the mother s expression how happy she was just to be with the child. I couldnt stop looking at
