Question

      Every day on the way to work I drive down a street lined with pine trees. One tree in particular __41__ my attention. It must have suffered some __42__ . Part of its trunk grew nearly parallel to the ground, and then in an effort to __43__ its own course of life, the trunk took a 90 degree turn __44__ to stand tall and stretch toward the sun.

      This tree became a __45__ for me. Each day as I drove by, I saw this bent but determined tree and I would be __46__. It was a reminder to me that __47__ I may not have had the best start in life, I could change __48__ in the parts of my life at any time.

      I was planning to stop one day to get a perfect __49__ of my kindred-spirit (志趣相同的) tree. But that week I was __50__. After that busy week, I still didn’t take any action. Every time I drove by the tree I would __51__ myself, “Tomorrow, I’ll stop tomorrow to take one.” Then one day, as I __52__ by “my” tree, I glanced over, and much to my __53__ found a sawed-off stump（树桩）where that symbolic tree had stood. Gone. I had __54__ my plan until “tomorrow” and tomorrow proved to be too __55__.

      A picture of a tree is not of great __56__. But my lesson rang through clearly __57__ I found out one of my colleagues had been __58__ with stage-four cancer. He may no longer have many __59__.

      What have you been putting off? What would you do if you knew you would __60__ have the opportunity to do it again? Why not do those things in time that you have been putting off until tomorrow?

 

41. A. paid	B. caught	C. fixed	D. escaped
42. A. damage	B. influence	C. experience	D. defeat
43. A follow	B. design	C. change	D. imagine
44. A. applying	B. attempting	C. happening	D. learning
45. A. shelter	B. signal	C. sign	D. symbol
46. A. interested	B. satisfied	C. encouraged	D. educated
47. A. even though	B. as if	C. in case	D. if only
48. A. purpose	B. plan	C. habit	D. direction
49. A. glance	B. view	C. picture	D. knowledge
50. A. busy	B. free	C. worried	D. bored
51. A. tell	B. help	C. call	D. see
52. A. wandered	B. drove C. rode	D. ran
53. A. surprise	B. pleasure	C. regret	D. happiness
54. A. put on	B. cut off	C. put off	D. called on
55. A. cold	B. far	C. sunny	D. late
56. A. value	B. achievement	C. fun	D. disappointment
57. A. when	B. before	C. because	D. unless
58. A. linked	B. combined	C. provided	D. diagnosed
59. A. lives	B. tomorrows	C. lessons	D. opportunities
60. A. surely	B. almost	C. ever	D. never

Answer 1

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