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I was feeling sad because my mother was out of job. It left me wondering 【小题1】 was going to happen to us.
I got off the college shuttle bus and started walking. Then I heard piano music and singing rising above the noise of the people and the traffic. I walked much 【小题2】  (slow) so I could find out where it was coming 【小题3】 . Through the crowd I saw【小题4】young lady sitting at a piano with a carriage next to her. She was singing songs with love and keeping on trying. The way she was singing comforted me a bit. I stood there 【小题5】 (watch) her play for about fifteen minutes, thinking that 【小题6】 must take courage to perform【小题7】her own in the middle of a crowd.
She must have felt my presence because she would often look in my direction. By now I was telling myself that if she could perform in front of hundreds of people【小题8】she didn’t know, I could at least tell her how good she sounded. I walked over, put some money in her carriage and 【小题9】 (say), “Thank you. I have been going through a hard time 【小题10】(late), but you’ve made me hopeful again.”

When studying in a middle school，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   36  on me, and since then, for the past 33 years，I have  37  in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life，  3 8  I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a  39  ，I know I need to change something.

    Remembering that I’ll be  40  soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big  41  in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death，  42  only what is truly important.

    About a year ago I was  43  with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs   44  order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die. I  45  with that diagnosis all day.   46  ，at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is  47  with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

     48  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  49  . No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of  50  . It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to  51  for the new. Right now the new is you. But someday not too  52  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  53  ，so don’t waste it living someone else’s 1ife. Don’t be  54  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  55  . And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart.

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

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

A. could                    B. would               C. should              D. might

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A. changeable            B. incurable             C. curable           D. fatal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The noise of desks ______ could be heard out in the street.

[　　]

A．opening and closing

B．opened and closed

C．to be opened and closed

D．being opened and closed

It was the end of the school term and my son Tom had less than three months left before he would finish his six years at high school. During this time he had developed a love for basketball. Sadly, because of my work over the last twelve months, I had only been able to attend a few of his games; however, I was determined to get to his last game for the school term.

Tom’s team came out in the first 10 minutes with a burst of goals that saw them leading by just over 20 points at the end of the first half. The second half changed as the other team quickly played themselves back into the game. Tom’s team started to miss an increasing number of shots. It was at that point that the coach called his first time out.

The noise of the spectators (观众) became quiet as the coach spoke to them. He had the team standing in a half circle, but he squatted (蹲) down, looking up at them and fiving some very calm and clear instructions on what they needed to do in the last couple of minutes. As he stood up to allow the team to return to the court, I saw him give some further words of encouragement to all of them.

You could see that he knew that the team was fighting to save the game and that he needed to lift them up. By squatting down he placed himself in a position where he was talking up to them, rather than down or at them, and as the players went back onto the court his words of encouragement served to lift their energy and spirits.

Well, Tom’s team went on to win the final by 5 points. As I drove away I thought about what can happen to us all in our everyday life. One of my favourite quotes is about the half filled glass of water --- “Is it half full or is it half empty?” Like the coach, the answer to this quote all depends on how you look at things.

1.Why did the writer come to see his son play basketball?

A. Because his son would graduate from high school.

B. Because he felt sorry for never watching his son play.

C. Because it was a final his son played a key role in.

D. Because he had a strong interest in basketball himself.

2.By squatting down, the coach wanted to _____ .

A. talk about what the players were doing wrong

B. make the players feel better

C. prevent spectators from hearing what he said

D. show his anger at the bad performance of the players

3.What is the writer’s attitude towards the coach?

A. Negative.   B. Supportive.   C. Interested.   D. Unconcerned.

4.What can we infer from the passage?

A. A father should care about his son at school.

B. Playing hard is rewarded with a close match.

C. What a coach says has the most influence on players.

D. Looking at things positively is important in hard times.

 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’11 most certainly be right．”It made a deep  36  on me．and since then。for the  past 33 years，I have  37  in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life，  38  I want to do what I am about to do today?”And whenever the answer has been“No”for too many days in a  39  ，I know I need to change something．

    Remembering that I’ll be  40  soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big  41  in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death，  42 only what is truly important

    About a year ago I was  43  with cancer My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs  44  order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die．I  45  with that diagnosis all day．  46  ，at last an advanced test showed that i。。t was a very rare cancer that is  47  with surgery．I had the surgery and I’m fine now

     48  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  49  ．No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of  50  ．It is life's change agent It clears out the old to  51  for the new．Right now the new is you．but someday not too  52  from n6w，you will．gradually’become the old and be cleared away．Sorry to be so dramatic，but it is quite true．

    Your time is  53  ，so don’t waste it living，someone else’s 1ife．Don’t be  54  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  55  ．And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart

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

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

38．A．would              B．should             C．might                D．could

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

47．A．incurable           B．curable               C．fatal               D．changeable

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

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

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

51．A．make up              B．make for           C．make our           D．make wav

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

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

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

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