题目内容
I am a good mother to three children.I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being
a good parent.
I no longer consider myself the center of the universe.I show up.I listen.I try to laugh.I am a good
friend to my husband.I have tried to make marriage vows(誓约) mean what they say.I am a good friend
to my friends, and they to me.Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.
So here's what I want to tell you today:get a life.A real life, not a desire of the next promotion(提升),
the bigger paycheck and the larger house.
Get a life in which you are not alone.Find people you love, and who love you.And remember that love
is not leisure(休闲) but work.Pick up the phone.Send an email.Write a letter.And realize that life is the
best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes.It is so easy to exist instead of
living.I learned to live many years ago.Something really, really bad happened to me, something that
changed my life.If I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all.And what I learned from it is
what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination.I learned to look at all the good in the world and tried
to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally.And I tried to do that, in part, by
telling others what I had learned.
By telling them this:read in the backyard with the sun on your face.Learn to be happy.And think of life
as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live with joy and passion(激情) as it ought to be lived.
1. The best title of this passage probably is "________".
A. Love Your Friends
B. Live a Real Life
C. Don't Waste Time
D. Be a Good Mother and Wife
2. How did the author form her view of life?
A. Through social experience.
B. By learning from her friends.
C. Through an unfortunate experience.
D. From her children and husband.
3. By the underlined sentence "It is so easy to exist instead of living." in the fifth paragraph, the author
really means that people tend to________.
A. make a living rather than live a real life
B. work rather than enjoy life
C. waste a lot in life
D. forget the most important lesson in life
4. It can be inferred from the passage that________.
A. the author is a success in personal life
B. the author doesn't try her best to work well
C. the author spends all her time caring for her children
D. the author likes traveling very much
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I first met her on the beach near where I live.I drive to this beach a__1__of three or four miles,whenever I'm feeling down.At that time she was__2__something. Looking__3__,she said,"Hello." I nodded,not wanting to__4__with a small child. "I'm Wendy and I'm building something," she said. "I see.But what is it?" I asked,not__5__. "I don't know.I just like the__6__of sand." A sandpiper (矶鹞鸟) flew by. "That's a__7__.Mum says sandpipers come to bring us joy." "Goodbye,joy," I thought to myself, " hello, __8__." and walked away. My life then seemed completely out of__9__. "Come again," she called,"and have another__10__day." But the days and weeks that followed__11__to other people:naughty boys and a__12__mother.One morning I suddenly realized I needed my__13__and headed for the beach.The breeze was cool,but I walked along,trying to recapture (捕捉) the inner peace I needed.I had almost__14__the child so I was surprised when she appeared. "__15__do you live?" I asked.She pointed toward a summer cottage. Then one day,I rushed to my beach in great pain,even in no__16__to greet the girl."If you don't mind," I said coldly,"I'd rather be__17__today." She seemed unusually__18__ and out of breath. "Why?" she asked. "My mother died!" "Did it hurt when she died?" "Of course it hurt!" I shouted,misunderstanding her. When I next went to the beach,she wasn't there.Feeling__19__,and admitting I__20__her,I went up to the cottage.A woman answered the door."Wendy,my daughter,died last week.She had leukemia (白血病).Maybe she didn't tell you." | |||
( )1. A.length ( )2.A.observing ( )3.A.up ( )4.A.work ( )5.A.caring ( )6.A.feel ( )7.A.sorrow ( )8.A.comfort ( )9.A.balance ( )10.A.sad ( )11. A.added ( )12. A.kind ( )13. A.party ( )14. A.searched ( )15. A.How ( )16. A.mood ( )17. A.alone ( )18. A.happy ( )19. A.sorry ( )20. A.cheated |
B.distance B.drawing B.out B.play B.seeing B.sense B.joy B.pleasure B.sight B.happy B. led B. poor B. sandpiper B. known B. What B. time B. lonely B. pale B. excited B. lost |
C.space C.building C.down C.say C.wanting C.smell C.pity C.kindness C.mind C.busy C. belonged C. lonely C. chance C. noticed C. Where C. way C. unique C. good C. cold C. troubled |
D.reach D.collecting D.over D.talk D.worrying D.comfort D.lie D.pain D.range D.fine D. related D. sick D. holiday D. forgotten D. Which D. place D. special D. powerful D. puzzled D. missed |
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Ten years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, America |
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(A) Dear Abby, In a recent column, a lady wrote to say that one of her guests at a dinner party had stolen a fork. She did not know how to 1 it. I was not that guest, but over the last ten years I have 2 three things from where I have been a guest. Abby, I cannot understand 3 I took these things! I have thought over as to how I can give these things 4 ! I cannot do it openly and 5 that I took them. This is a small town, and I am well known here. If just one of these people 6 about it, I would be finished. Abby, what is wrong with me? They are 7 unimportant things. I considered seeing an __8 for a long time, but should I be 9 going to an expert, it would be known in the entire town 10 . I am sure thousands of people like me wish to have the courage to return __11 does not belong to themselves. Should I just wait until it is 12 , and then find a good chance to 13 the things in the mailboxes of their right 14 ? Help me! I’m eagerly looking forward to your reply! A Guilty Conscience (B) Dear Guilty Conscience, Yes. It will make you feel 15 to tell your story, but it will not solve your problem. You need to 16 help to find out why you took those things so you won’t 17 this kind of behavior. See an expert in 18 town or city nearby to protect your 19 . He/She will give you much help. Please 20 my advice, and let me hear from you again. I care. Abby | |||
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B. cover B. taken B. how B. back B. unders tand B. worried B. really B. official B. understood B. at one time B. that B. dawn B. bring B. relatives B. good B. seek B. continue B. the other B. clue B. offer |
C. recover C. borrowed C. where C. off C. admit C. quarreled C. lately C. expert C. seen C. ahead of time C. as C. broken C. put C. parents C. bad C. supply C. stop C. others C. privacy C. refuse |
D. discover D. delivered D. why D. away D. forget D. imagined D. shortly D. artist D. allowed D. for the time being D. what D. gone D. carry D. friends D. better D. enjoy D. mention D. another D. article D. send |