阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Insight Without Sight
At the age of eighteen I couldn’t wait to get my first job, which meant I made the first step toward adulthood.
But it was difficult to get a work permit．One day I was dropped off by my parents at the
, where applicants took their physical tests for work permits．Although I had night blindness, my vision was clearer during the day, which helped me walk by myself．Then the doctor began the ．He looked into my eyes with a bright light．“I your parents take you to an eye specialist,”he said,“I suspect you have a retinal(视网膜) disease．If you do, you’ll never a day in your life…”
My parents did take me to specialists．After much time and money spent seeking an result, it was determined that I had an eye disease that slowly a person of sight．But still, during daylight, I could walk without ．I could read, but not for hours．My eyes began to
and words slipped off the page when I read more than a few pages．However, no matter how tired my eyes became, I never gave up reading．I knew the of great writers as well as I knew the most popular music stars．Their words were powerful, which me to try writing．Soon writing brought me a lot of each time I completed a paper．
Then an important phone call from an editor changed my life．An article I .appeared in a local newspaper．The newspaper, to my , continued to print my work．Next, a book series published several of my essays．I got interested in writing and up with each acceptance．On the pages, readers never knew of my blindness I chose to present it．For me, finding my voice through writing gave me the pride and satisfaction I so many years ago．Now, I have numerous essays and articles in ．
Should I be thanking that misguided doctor? By falsely predicting that I could never work a day, he fueled my into success．He set the bar too .and focused on what I wouldn’t be able to do．Yet I proved what I could do.
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| A．station |
B．clinic |
C．company |
D．lab |
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| A．silently |
B．suddenly |
C．proudly |
D．easily |
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| A．operation |
B．examination |
C．argument |
D．treatment |
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| A．desire |
B．order |
C．suggest |
D．command |
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| A．work |
B．live |
C．rest |
D．sleep |
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| A．urgent |
B．obvious |
C．ordinary |
D．accurate |
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| A．robs |
B．warns |
C．reminds |
D．informs |
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| A．medicine |
B．allowance |
C．balance |
D．assistance |
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| A．dance |
B．shine |
C．tear |
D．widen |
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| A．houses |
B．names |
C．addresses |
D．habits |
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| A．asked |
B．forced |
C．encouraged |
D．permitted |
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| A．trouble |
B．pleasure |
C．stress |
D．worry |
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| A．admitted |
B．wanted |
C．described |
D．penned |
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| A．delight |
B．admiration |
C．shame |
D．disappointment |
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| A．gave |
B．came |
C．lit |
D．put |
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| A．unless |
B．although |
C．since |
D．after |
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| A．feared |
B．brought |
C．sought |
D．rejected |
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| A．print |
B．time |
C．use |
D．mind |
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| A．imagination |
B．motivation |
C．responsibility |
D．personality |
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| A．far |
B．long |
C．close |
D．low |
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