It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance£®It had to start with the simplest things£®Once a man gave me an indoor baseball£®I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt£®"I can't use this£®" I said£®"Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around£®" The words stuck in my head£®"Roll it around! "By rolling the ball I could hear where it went£®This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball£®At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball£®We called it ground ball£®

All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time£®I had to learn my limitations£®It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure£®I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress£®

1£®We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______

A£®the author lost his sight because of a car crash£®

B£®the author wouldn't love life if the disaster didn't happen£®

C£®the disaster made the author appreciate what he had£®

D£®the disaster strengthened the author's desire to see£®