—How about camping this weekend，just for a change?

—OK，________you want.

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. When know that this is1  , but all too often we recognize this truth  2  in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly  3  that it is no more.

A recent  4  re-taught me this truth. I was hospitalized  5  a serious heart attack and had been in intensive  6  for several days. It was not a pleasant place.

One morning, I had to have some additional  7  ，so I had to be wheeled across the count yard on a gurney（n.轮床）.

         8  we got out from our unit, the sunlight hit me. Just the  9  of the sun. And yet how beautiful it was---how warming, how sparking, how brilliant! I  10  around to see whether anyone else loved the sun's golden glow, but everyone was  11 ,most with eyes fixed on the ground. At that moment, I came to realize  12  gifts are precious----but we are too  13  about them.

     Hold fast to life, but not so fast, or you cannot  14  .This is the second side of life's  15  , the opposite pole of its paradox（悖论）：we must   16  our losses, and learn how to let go.

       This is not an easy  17  to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, and that  18  we desire with the full force of our passionate being, can, and, will, be ours. But then life  19  , keeping us faced with realities, and  20  but surely this truth dawns upon us.

1．A．easy                    B．clear                   C．true                   D．good

2．A．only                    B．also                   C．well                   D．even

3．A．notice                  B．realize                C．worry                D．concern

4．A．report                  B．story                 C．accident             D．experience

5．A．during                  B．since                 C．after                  D．until

6．A．care                    B．charge               C．control              D．need

7．A．doctors               B．medicine            C．instructions        D．tests

8．A．Before                 B．Till                    C．As                     D．While

9．A．warmth               B．light                   C．colors                D．image

10．A．looked               B．turned                C．walked              D．ran

11．A．watching            B．hurrying             C．working             D．sitting

12．A．disease's            B．art's                   C．health's              D．life's

13．A．honest               B．curious              C．careless             D．anxious

14．A．hold on              B．take over            C．give in               D．let go

15．A．coin                  B．note                   C．bill                    D．check

16．A．accept               B．admire               C．remember          D．forgive

17．A．skill                   B．failure                C．lesson                D．task

18．A．whatever           B．whichever          C．however            D．whoever

19．A．comes up           B．goes off             C．dies away          D．moves along

20．A．quickly              B．firmly                C．slowly               D．suddenly

 (广西柳州铁一中2009届高三第二次模拟考试)

A lecturer was giving a lecture on stress management．He raised a glass of water and asked the audience，“   36    heavy do you think this glass of water is?” The audience’s answers  3  7  from 20g to 500g．

It does not depend on its  38  .It depends on  39  you hold it．If I hold it for a minute，It is OK, If I hold it for an hour，I will have a(n)  40  in my right arm．If I hold it fot  41,  you will have to call an ambulance．It is the exact same weight，  42  the longer I hold it，the  43 it becomes．

If we carry our burdens  all the time，  44  ，we will not be able to catty on，the burden becoming  45  heavier．  46  you have to do is to put the glass down，rest for a while  47  holding it up again．

 We have to  48  the burden from time to time．so that we can be refreshed and are    49  to carry on．So before you return home from  50  tonight，put the burden of work down．Don’t 

51  it back home．You can   52  tomorrow.   53  burdens you are having now on your  54  ，let it down for a moment if you can．

    Life is short，  55   it !

    36．A．What                B．Where                   C．When             D．How

    37．A．ranged            B．changed                C．came                     D．turned

    38．A．height                     B．length                    C．weight            D．width

    39．A．how far            B．how long               C．how soon              D．how much

    40．A．wound                     B．injury                     C．cut                 D．ache 

    41．A．a year                     B．a month                 C．a day                    D．a second

    42．A．or                     B．therefore               C．but                 D．so

    43．A．bigger                     B．1arger                   C．heavier          D．1ignter

    44．A．in no time         B．sooner or later             C，on time           D．first  of all

    45．A．briefly              B．interestingly           C．increasingly   D．decreasingly

    46．A．That                 B．What                            C．How                D．It

    47．A．since                B．after                      C．before            D．because

    48．A．put down          B．write down             C．note down          D．push  down

    49．A ．kind                B．able                       C．strong            D．eager

    50．A．school                     B．hospital                 C．work               D．walk

    51．A．hold                 B．sell                        C．carry                     D．return

    52．A．pick it up          B．get rid of it             C．carry it up             D．put it out

    53．A．However          B，Whichever             C．Whoever        D．Whatever

    54．A．heart                B．shoulders                     C．bodies            D．heads

    55．A．have                B．eat                        C．enjoy                     D．hate

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从以下各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　“You will meet a man in the theatre foyer,” K. explained. “He will have left before the play ends and will be 1 for you. He'll be wearing a dark suit and carrying a theatre 2 upside down, although I doubt if you could miss him. There shouldn't be many people waiting in the foyer at that time of night. 3 he asks you to do, whatever instructions you're given, co-operate. Understood?” I nodded. I knew of course that we were planning to have discussions with “the other side” and that we intended to 4 back one of our own men, but all this seemed a bit ridiculous. I had been told at the training school that I would be likely to get some simple but rather strange 5 to begin with. They had been 6 .

　　The curtain had 7 come down on the last act of the play when I was out of my 8 and walking from the dark of the theatre into the bright lights of the foyer. He was there. But the moment I saw him, I had the 9 that something unpleasant was about to happen. He seemed to be 10 at a spot on the floor, and looked as if he was just about to pick something up when 11 was a single gun shot and he was thrown 12 the wall. The warning signs had obviously got to me 13 I realized consciously what was going to happen, because I had 14 in a cold sweat on seeing the expression on his 15 . The moment the shot rang out, I automatically fell back on my training and threw myself to the 16 .

　　When no more shots followed, I looked 17 and was just in time to see two masked men 18 my“contact” out of the front door of the theatre. I didn't know 19 he was dead or badly injured, but I intended to find out. I got up slowly and carefully and 20 for the door.

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