Being good at something and having a passion for it are not enough. Success depends fundamentally on our view of ourselves and of the events in our lives.
When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in 1931, he had no way of knowing that his life was to change ____1____. The class experiment that day was to ____2____ how heating a container of water would bring air bubbling (冒泡) to the surface. Anyway, the container the teacher gave Wilson to heat ____3____ held something more volatile (易挥发的) than water. When Wilson heated it, the container ____4____, leaving Wilson blinded in both eyes.
When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents attempted to find a way to deal with the catastrophe (灾难) that had ____5____ their lives. But Wilson did not regard the accident as ____6____. 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 (an) ____7____ public speaker.
Later, he worked in Africa, where many people suffered from ____8____ for lack of proper treatment. For him, it was one thing to accept his own fate of being blind and quite another to allow something to continue when it could be fixed so easily. This moved him to action. And tens of millions in Africa and Asia can see because of the commitment Wilson made to preventing the preventable.
Wilson received several international ____9____ for his great contributions. He lost his sight but found a vision. He proved that it’s not what happens to us that ______10______ our lives — it’s what we make of what happens.
1. A. continually B. gradually C. completely D. gratefully
2. A. direct B. show C. advance D. declare
3. A. mistakenly B. casually C. amazingly D. embarrassedly
4. A. broke B. exploded C. emptied D. exposed
5. A. contributed to B. cared for C. impressed on D. happened to
6. A. remarkable B. extraordinary C. impressive D. catastrophic
7. A. successful B. ordinary C. specific D. regular
8. A. deafness B. depression C. speechlessness D. blindness
9. A. scholarships B. rewards C. awards D. bonuses
10. A. claims B. distinguishes C. determines D. limits
【答案】1. C 2. B 3. A 4. B 5. D 6. D 7. A 8. D 9. C 10. C
