I said. ―Take with you,‖ he urged me, ―and roll it around.‖ The words _____ in my head. ―Roll it around!‖ By before; playing baseball. At Philadelphia‘s Overbrook School for the Blind I a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.

I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my 11. A. sky B. cloud C. sunshine D. mist

12. A. helpful B. wonderful C. hopeful D. successful

13 A. disaster B. environment C. incident D. wonder

14. A. manage B. try C. want D. prefer

15. A. lost B. left C. used D. cared

16. A. purpose B. potential C. pressure D. preparation

17 A. energy B. happiness C. luck D. blindness

18. A. hardest B. dullest C. simplest D. easiest

19. A. self-respect B. self-control C. self-confidence D. self-defence

20. A. think B. consider C. guess D. mean

21. A. imperfect B. perfect C. unfair D. fair

22. A. Later B. Soon C. Once D. Then

23. A. worried B. encouraged C. shocked D. hurt

24. A. stuck B. impressed C. occupied D. held

25. A. see B. hear C. notice D. observe

26. A. important B. unimportant C. possible D. impossible

27. A. invented B. discovered C. instructed D. directed

28. A. experience B. advantages C. knowledge D. limitation

29. A. hardly B. wildly C. highly D. deeply

30. A. so B. for C. but D. and

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）

第一节（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked Deluca about his plan for the future. ―I'm going to college, but I need a way to pay for it,‖ Deluca recalls saying, ―Buck said, you should open a sandwich shop.‘‖

That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $1,000. Deluca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn't cover their start-up costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000.

But business didn't go smoothly as they expected. Deluca says, ―After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn't know how badly, because we didn't have any financial controls.‖ All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs.

Deluca was managing the store and to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They'd meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. ―We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, We are so successful; we are opening a second store.‘‖ And they did—in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error.

But the partners' learn-as-you-go approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, Deluca would drive around and hand­deliver the checks to pay their supplies. ―It probably took me two and a half hours