题目内容：

The late Booth Tarkington always said, “I could take anything that life could force upon me except one thing: blindness. I could never ______ that.”

One day, when he was along in his sixties, Tarkington ______ down at the carpet on the floor. The colors were not clear, so he went to a ______, and he soon learned the truth: he was losing his sight. What he ______ most had come on him. And ______ did Tarkington react to it? To his amazement, he felt quite ______. When total darkness closed in, Tarkington even said, “I found I could take the ______ of my eyesight, just as a man can ______ anything else. If I lost all five of my ______, I know I could live on inside my mind. For it is in the mind we see, and in the mind we live, whether we know it or not.”

To ______ his eyesight, Tarkington had to go through over twelve operations within one year. He knew he couldn’t ______ it, so the only way to lessen his ______ was to accept. And when he had to have ______ operations, he tried to remember how fortunate he was. He said, “How wonderful it is that ______ now has the skill to operate on anything so ______ as the human eye!”

A(n) ______ man would have been nervous if he had had to tolerate over twelve operations and ______. Yet, Tarkington said, “I wouldn’t ______ this experience for a happier one.” It taught him ______. It taught him that nothing life could bring him was ______ his strength to tolerate.

1.A. feel    B. forget    C. forgive    D. tolerate

2.A. put    B. threw    C. glanced    D. settled

3.A. tailor    B. specialist    C. shop    D. concert

4.A. feared    B. needed    C. enjoyed    D. envied

5.A. why    B. where    C. how    D. when

6.A. sad    B. gay    C. desperate    D. thrilled

7.A. loss    B. test    C. experiment    D. recovery

8.A. take    B. admire    C. control    D. achieve

9.A. fingers    B. organs    C. senses    D. toes

10.A. protect    B. adjust    C. examine    D. restore

11.A. escape    B. get    C. predict    D. feel

12.A. expectation    B. suffering    C. anger    D. dissatisfaction

13.A. hurried    B. successful    C. secret    D. repeated

14.A. society    B. library    C. science    D. school

15.A. gentle    B. bright    C. beautiful    D. delicate

16.A. popular    B. average    C. skillful    D. proud

17.A. blindness    B. behavior    C. mistakes    D. failures

18.A. leave    B. prepare    C. exchange    D. take

19.A. caution    B. confidence    C. honesty    D. acceptance

20.A. for    B. beyond    C. by    D. within