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As I sit here on the eve of my 3rd year non-smoker anniversary, I’m thinking about that last cigarette I smoked. I was sitting at the kitchen table at 10 in the 16 at home, sick with bronchitis（支气管炎） again. I felt miserable, weak and desperate. I 17 smoking that moring in 2005 without any real confidence that I was smoking my 18 cigarette ever.
Today, there’s one thing about my future that I 19 with absolute certainty: I’ll never smoke again! I know without a shadow of a 20 that I’ll never go back. I’ve changed what cigarettes 21 to me and in the process I’ve gained permanent, true 22 from the habit that held me close for 26 long years!
Our thoughts and feelings control the 23 of our lives. It’s how we think about the experiences in our lives that 24 , not the events themselves.
Most of us smoked for years. We 25 to think of cigarettes as a part of us, even a friend. How do we now 26 changing the meaning that has become so 27 established in our lives? There are specific steps that, when 28 , will help you take control and shape your thoughts in ways that 29 you. Work these techniques into your daily routine and give them some time to 30 and flourish. You’ll be surprised at the positive 31 you can create in your life.
Anything you want to change in your life has to 32 from the should list to the must list. Most of us spent years thinking we should quit smoking. I sure did. 33 right now that quitting is a must for you. This has got to be the first step you take on the 34 to freedom. Don’t worry that you feel shaky and unsure. The steps outlined here will help you turn that 35 into strength of purpose. Make your quit a must—it’s where we all have to begin.
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【解析】
1.根据后面that morning in 2005 可知是在早上十点故选morning.
2.根据前面的last cigarette 可知I是戒烟，所以选quit 离开、停止
3.根据17题可知是最后一支烟故选last
4.考查单词know 意思是知道、清楚根据句意我对自己的将来最清楚要做的一件事就是不再吸烟
5.考查单词 doubt that...怀疑 常用于否定句表确信，我确信我不会回到过去。
6.考查短语lead to 导致 belong to 属于 bring to 带来 mean+名+to..(对某人而言)有...意义 香烟对我来说意味着...
7.考查单词freedom 自由 health 健康 intetest 兴趣 friendship 友谊 根据句意摆脱了控制我近26年的习惯。
8.根据句意 我们的思想决定着我们的生命质量 故选quality
9.考查词义 count 有意义 ，有价值chang 改变exist 存在appear出现我们生活中有意义的经验。
10.考查短语come to think of....终于意识到 ...
11.固定短语的用法go about 从事...干....give up 放弃 keep on 继续
12.考查词义 ，副词用法，firmly 修饰established 进一步强调
13.考查词义，follow the steps一步一步的
14.考查词义 拯救你的方法 A伤害B控制C鼓舞，激励
15. 考查词义 根据句意 给他们时间让他们成长并壮大A消失 B成长C生产D思考
16.考查词义 根据句意你可以惊奇发现你的改变 故选B
17.考查短语 move from..to 从...移动到...
18.考查单词decide 决定admit允许、接纳 realize意识到 consider考虑 根据句意决定戒烟对我来说是必须的故选A
19.考查词义 path 小路，通向自由的小路
20.考查逻辑推理 有前面的shaky 可知答案为shakiness
Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
| A. desperation | B. authorities | C. diligently | D. confusion | E. enrolled |
| F. violently | G. financial | H. conclusion | I. devoted | J. graduation |
Seventeen years ago, when I was in military college, I was known as “the worrying wreck from Virginia Tech”. I worried so _____41_____ that I often became ill. In _____42_____, I poured out my troubles to Professor Baird, professor of business administration. The fifteen minutes that I spent with Professor Baird did more for my health and happiness than all the rest of the four years I spent in college. “Jim,” he said, “you ought to sit down and face the facts. If you _____43_____ half as much time and energy to solving your problems as you do to worrying about them, you wouldn’t have any worries. ”
I figured that I had failed physics because I had no interest in the subject. But now I changed my attitude. I said to myself, “If the college _____44_____ demand that I pass my physics examination before I obtain a degree, who am I to question their wisdom?”
So I ______45____ for physics again. This time I passed because instead of wasting my time in worrying about how hard it was, I studied _____46_____.
I solved my _____47_____ worries by taking on some additional jobs, such as selling punch at the college dances, and by borrowing money from my father, which I paid back soon after ____48______.
As I look back at it now, I can see that my problem was one of _____49_____, a lack of willingness to find the causes of my worry and face them realistically.