When I was 17，I read a quote that went something like：“If you live each day as if it were your last，someday you’ll most certainly be right．”It made a deep   21  on me, and since then, for the past 33 years，I have  22  in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life，  23  I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a  24  ，I know I need to change something．

    Remembering that I’ll be  25 soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big 26 in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death，  27 only what is truly important.

    About a year ago I was  28  with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs  29  order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die．I  30  with that diagnosis all day．  31  ，at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is  32  with surgery．I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

     33  wants to die．Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all  34  ．No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of  35  ．It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to  36  for the new．Right now the new is you．But someday not too  37  from now，you will gradually become the old and be cleared away．Sorry to be so dramatic，but it is quite true．

    Your time is  38  ，so don’t waste it living someone else’s 1ife．Don’t be  39  by dogma(教条) —which is living with the results of other people’s thinking．Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner  40  ．And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart.

A．impression      B．curse              C．decision           D．joke

A．seen           B．looked            C．found            D．1ost

A．would                 B．should             C．might            D could

A．hurry           B．1ine              C．moment          D．row

A．successful        B．rich             C. dead               D．frustrated

A．apologies       B．fortune            C．impressions       D．choices

A．proving          B. leaving           C．confirming       D．telling

A．diagnosed        B．cured             C．treated           D．round

A．on              B．for               C． in                     D．at

A．met                  B．got               C．did              D．1ived

A．However       B．But               C．Therefore          D．So

A．incurable       B curable             C. fatal            D. changeable

A．Anyone        B．Someone          C.No one            D．Everyone

A．want          B．avoid               C．share            D．escape

A．destination     B．1ife                C．science            D．disease

A．make up       B．make for         C．make our         D．make way

A．distant          B．short            C．long             D．away   

A.1imited           B．rare              C．enough            D．1ost

A．wasted        B．cheated          C．excited            D．trapped

A．voice         B．love                 C. direction          D．confusion

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

Many years ago, whites ruled South Africa. Apartheid（种族隔离制度）was the   16  of the land. One evening, two middle-aged blacks met in a “whites only” section of Johannesburg. One of them had a permit to work in the area, the other did not, which   17  he could be put behind bars（关押）for staying in this zone.   18  they saw a policeman coming towards them, and   19 .

“Run!” whispered the man with the permit to his friend, “I’ll   20  .” They started running and the policeman began chasing them, shouting “stop, stop”. Finally he caught the second man.

“Did you think you could outrun me!” he snarled. “Show me your   21 ！”

The man, playing for time, began reaching in his pocket and finally took out his permit. The policeman was surprised and realized that he had been   22 . The man without the permit was now too far away to be caught.

“When you had a permit why did you run!” he shouted   23 .

“Doctor’s   24 ,” said the man. “He has asked me to run a mile every evening.”

“Oh, yes? ” Sneered the policeman. “Then why was your friend   25 ?”

“His doctor has also ordered him to run,” said the man.

The policeman became   26  with anger. “You think you’re very   27 , don’t you?” he snarled. “But tell me, if you were running   28  for your health why didn’t you stop when you saw me running after you? And don’t tell me you didn’t see me chasing you. I know you did!”

“Of course I   29  you were running after me,” said the man.

“Then why didn’t you stop?” asked the policeman.

“It was   30 of me,” said the man, “but I thought you too had been ordered to run by your doctor.”

1.                A．property        B．mistake         C．law  D．custom

2.                A．meant          B．showed         C．replied   D．imagined

3.                A．Happily         B．Suddenly        C．Finally    D．Generally

4.                A．hid            B．fell            C．cried D．froze

5.                A．fight           B．explain         C．follow    D．walk

6.                A．invitation       B．permit          C．pocket   D．ticket

7.                A．fooled         B．hurt           C．blamed   D．abandoned

8.                A．nervously       B．sadly           C．carefully  D．angrily

9.                A．attitudes        B．methods        C．orders   D．hopes

10.               A．stopping        B．missing         C．staying    D．running

11.               A．shy            B．strict           C．red   D．serious

12.               A．brave          B．healthy         C．native D．smart

13.               A．only           B．also           C．never D．often

14.               A．remembered    B．knew          C．believed   D．agreed

15.               A．stupid          B．rude           C．kind  D．wise

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

       One morning all the employees reached the office as usual．And on the wall they saw a big  on 21  on which was written：Yesterday, the person who has been  22  your growth in this company passed  23  ．We invite you to join the funeral prepared in the  24  ．

              In the beginning，they all got  25  for me death of one of their colleagues．  26  after a while they started getting  27  to know who was the man that limited the growth of his colleagues and the company itself．

      The  28  in the gym was such that security agents(保安)were  29  to control the crowd within the room．The more people reached the coffin(棺材)，the more the excitement  30  up．Everyone whispered to each other：“  31  on earth is this guy?”

      One by one the excited employees got loser to the coffin，and when they  32  inside it，they  33  became speechless。They stood nearby the coffin，shocked and in  34  ．as if someone had  35  the deepest part of their soul．

       There was a  36  inside the coffin；everyone who looked inside it could see himself, There was also a sign next to the mirror that  37  There is only one person who is  38  to set limits to your growth：IT IS  39  !!!!!! Your life doesn’t change when everyone around you changes．Your life changes when YOU change，when you go beyond your limiting beliefs inside．Don’t be afraid of  40  ；build yourself and your reality．It’s the way you face life itself that makes the difference!

A．card       B．post   C．sign   D．1etter

A．encouragingB．helping       C．building    D．limiting

A．on  B．by     C．away D．down

A．office    B．gym  C．way   D．meeting room

A．sad B．excited     C．afraid       D．calm

A．and B．but    C．or     D．so

A．ready     B．pleased     C．curious     D．serious

A．surprise  B．anger C．excitement       D．sadness

A．admitted       B．forced      C．forbidden  D．ordered

A．heated  B．woke C．turned      D．kept

A．Ⅵmere B．What C．How  D．Who

A．walked B．looked      C．got    D．turned

A．suddenly     B．gradually  C．merely      D．extremely

A．Sorrow       B．order C．silence      D．person  ‘

A．stolen   B．touched    C．attacked    D．seen

A．1etter   B．book C．mirror      D．appeared

A．wrote   B．read  C．showed     D．able

A．sure     B．eager C．afraid       D．able

A．YOU   B．ME   C．HE    D．ITSELF

A．punishmentB．praises       C．changes    D．blame

语法填空 (每小题2分，满分20分) （请考生把答案写在答题卷上）

The holiday’s upon us. After months of study, you have some time to yourself. So, why not read a book? Well, some people will say, ‘Why trouble with books? We have the Internet and __26   media that offer a lot more __27   (colour) programs. Books are history!” But don’t be fooled. There’s still a lot to be said for reading and reading as widely as possible.

One clear reason is that a well-chosen book is a wonderful collection  _28   words and expressions, so long as you have a good dictionary, of course. Believe me, it’s far easier to get new English words and expressions from a book or article _ 29   it is from the TV or the Internet.

But an even more important point is _ 30   books give you something that modern media simply can not. The webpage is always full of pictures and the text is often designed to make it as easy to read as possible.

Though “easy” may be welcome, _31   (luck) it’s of little use for any long-time development of reading skills and the general language level. For that, there’s still no substitute (替代品) for a book.

But perhaps the best single reason is that simply __32   (choose) what you read and doing it by yourself _ 33   (mean) that it’s something you do by and for yourself. You can choose what you want to read. It’s hard work, __34   while you are reading, you’ll find that what once __ 35   (seem) like a duty is now a pleasure.

In 2004,I was 22 years old and had just come back to Brazil after 14 months in England,holding my Cambridge Proficiency certificate.After nervously  21  a short training course,I began to give classes to my 12 students,all of them older than I was. I  22  hard to remain clam in class and  23  they wouldn't find out how unconfident I felt most of the time.I was quite _24_,actually,until the end of  25  and the night of the final oral test.
The test was going to start at 7 pm,and at 6:50, I_ 26  myself in the teachers bathroom to  27  all the test questions again.I really wanted to learn the 28  by heart so no one would think I was an inexperienced tester.The  29  is,I actually locked myself in the bathroom.I  30  couldn't get out!The bell rang at 7 pm and I could hear the noise in the halls  31  the students went to their rooms.I tried hard to 32  the bathroom door,but failed.
I heard the cleaning lady’s voice and asked for help as  33  as I could, However, she wasn't exactly a thoughtful person, and started  34 ：“Diana’s locked in the bathroom!”Shame had fallen upon me!  35  , the course director, the secretary and some teachers were outside the bathroom trying to get me out, and,  36  ,my students gathered outside too, happily saying things like“Aren’t we  37 ! No test today!”All I could do was 38  , and my entire  39  was waiting for me outside, naughty smiles on their faces.“ 40 ！Teacher.”They said,“We know you are human too!”
They all passed their test.True to the Brazilian style, we all went out for a beer afterwards, and laughed the whole thing off.