专题04 完形填空（20篇）-备战2022-2023学年高一年级英语下学期期末考试真题汇编（江苏专用）

专题04 完形填空 (20篇) 经典基础题 一 (2022春·江苏镇江·高一统考期末)I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a goods yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I can dimly remember the __1__ of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a(n) catastrophe(灾难) can do strange things to people. It __2__ 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 ___3___ without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left. Life, I believe, asks for a continuous series of __4__ to reality. In spite of the fact that they are never easy, I had my parents and teachers to help. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have __5__ 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 __6__ the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an __7__ staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite __8__, a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself __9__. 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 laughing at 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 __10__ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it __11__. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought __12__: 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 achieve them, one at a