Being good at something and having a passion for it are not enough. Success _______ fundamentally on our view of ourselves and of the _________ in our lives.
When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in 1931, he had no _______ of knowing that his life was to change _________. The class experiment that day was to _________ how heating a container of water would bring air bubbling (冒泡) to the surface. _________, the container the teacher gave Wilson to heat _________ held something more volatile (易挥发的) than water. When Wilson heated it, the container _______, leaving Wilson blinded in both eyes.
When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents _________ to find a way to deal with the catastrophe that had ____________ their lives. But Wilson did not regard the accident as ____________. He learned braille (盲文) quickly and continued his education at Worcester College for the Blind. There, he not only did well as a student but also became a(n)____________ public speaker.
Later, he worked in Africa, where many people suffered from ____________ for lack of proper treatment. For him, it was one thing to __________ his own fate of being blind and quite another to allow something to continue __________ it could be fixed so easily. This moved him to action. And tens of millions in Africa and Asia can see because of the ____________ Wilson made to preventing the ____________.
Wilson received several international ____________ for his great contributions. He lost his sight but found a __________. He proved that it’s not what happens to us that ____________ our lives-it’s what we make of what happens.
1.A.depends | B.holds | C.keeps | D.reflects |
2.A.dilemmas | B.accidents | C.events | D.steps |
3.A.way | B.hope | C.plan | D.measure |
4.A.continually | B.gradually | C.gracefully | D.completely |
5.A.direct | B.show | C.advocate | D.declare |
6.A.Anyway | B.Moreover | C.Somehow | D.Thus |
7.A.mistakenly | B.casually | C.amazingly | D.clumsily |
8.A.erupted | B.exploded | C.emptied | D.exposed |
9.A.deserved | B.attempted | C.cared | D.agreed |
10.A.submitted to | B.catered for | C.impressed on | D.happened to |
11.A.fantastic | B.extraordinary | C.impressive | D.catastrophic |
12.A.accomplished | B.crucial | C.specific | D.innocent |
13.A.deafness | B.depression | C.blindness | D.speechlessness |
14.A.decide | B.abandon | C.control | D.accept |
15.A.until | B.when | C.unless | D.before |
16.A.opposition | B.adjustments | C.commitment | D.limitations |
17.A.preventable | B.potential | C.spreadable | D.influential |
18.A.scholarships | B.rewards | C.awards | D.bonuses |
19.A.fortune | B.recipe | C.dream | D.vision |
20.A.distinguishes | B.determines | C.claims | D.limits |