安宜高级中学 2015 届高三 D 部英语限时训练四十一班级：___________姓名：___________学号：___________I. 完形填空I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty two. I can 1 remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a 2 can do strange things to people. It 3 to me the other day that I might not have come to 4 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 5 of them made me appreciate more 6 I had leftLife, I believe, asks a continuous series of 7 to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me----a 8 to live, you might call it---- which I didn't see, and they made me want to fight it out with 9 .The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have 10 and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say 11 _ in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, 12 imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the complex 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 13 things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was 14 me and I was 15 . “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words 16 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 17 : playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I 18 a successful game of baseball, which we called ground ball.All my life I have set ahead of me a series of 19 and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was absolutely 20 because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.1. A. deliberately B. definitely C. vaguely D. clearly2. A. catastrophe B. catalogue C. caution D. category3. A. struck B. occurred C. hit D. referred4. A. determine B. hate C. influence D. love5. A. confidence B. darkness C. misery D. loss6. A. who B. where C. what D. why 7. A. adjustments B. assumptions C. attractions D. appointments8. A. purpose B. potential C. pressure D. preparation9. A. sight B. baseball C. blindness D. adaptation10. A. acknowledged B. collapsed C. appreciated D. criticized11. A. belief B. information C. understanding D. research12. A. despite B. regardless C. beneath D. in spite13. A. extreme B. elementary C. explicit D. efficient14. A. abusing B. encouraging C. teasing D. laughing15. A. injured B. worried C. disappointed D. hurt16. A. stuck B. impressed C. occupied D. held17. A. useless B. dull C. uninteresting D. impossible18. A. made B. produced C. invented D. discovered19. A. promises B. purposes C. intentions D. goals20. A. out of control B. out of question C. out of sight D. out of reachII.阅读理解AThe United States Capitol is a monument, a working office building, and one of the most recognizable symbols of representative democracy (议会民主)in the world. Visitors are welcome to enter the building through the Capitol Visitor Center, located underground, beneath the East Front plaza of the U.S. Capitol at First Street and East Capitol Street.Hours—The Capitol Visitor Center is open to visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day and on Inauguration Day.Admission and Passes—Admission to the Capitol Visitor Center is free. However, passes are required for tours of the historic Capitol. All visitors to the Capitol are required to go through security screening. Please review the U.S. Capitol prohibited items list before your visit.Tours—Tours of the U.S. Capitol need to be scheduled in advance through the Advance Reservation System or through the office of one of your Senators or your Representative.Visitors with Disabilities—The Capitol Visitor Center is fully accessible to people with disabilities. Listening devices with audio description of the films and exhibition are available at the Information Desks. All films have open captioning. In addition, there are a variety of other services for visitors with disabilities, i