“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. (494W)
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. How to invent a successful variation of baseball.
3. According to the context, the underlined phrase “a chair rocker on the front porch” in Paragraph 3 means that the author .
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