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。
When I was in middle school, I was one of the smaller players on the basketball team. In our first game of the season, we were   31  to face a good team, all of whom were tall guys. Naturally, at my   32 , it would have been easy to be   33  by our competitors.
On game day, my basketball coach called me over to him. He was a strong and tough coach, and in his   34  rough manner said, “Joel, you’re not that   35 , but let me tell you that size doesn’t matter. Don’t be afraid. What   36  is right down in here.” He pointed his finger at his  37  as he continued, “Joel, you’ve got a big heart, and you’re to   38  it this year.”
When I heard the coach’s   39  , I stood taller than usual! I thought to myself: The coach believes in me! My confidence   40  and I played better that year than I’d ever done before.
It’s   41  what we can achieve when we know somebody really believes in us. That coach took a little time to make a big   42   . He took time to make me confident in myself. If we’re going to   43  the best in people, we need to sow seeds of   44  .
As the saying goes, “Love looks for a way of being constructive.”   45  , love looks for ways to help improve somebody else’s life.
When people are   46  us, they should leave better off than they were before. People should feel   47  and inspired after spending any time with you and me  48  feeling discouraged or defeated.
Remember, there’s   49  greater investment（投资）in life than in being a people builder. Relationships   50  much more to us than our achievements.
【小题1】

 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.

 Martin Henfield talks about some of his experience(经历) as a twin: when we were small my mother dressed us __1_  the same clothes. That was bad enough and we didn’t like it. But we went on our first camping trip, it was even __2__. We were only ten years old, and while __3_  went into their sleeping bags for the  _4__, we were not happy to snuggle(偎依) inside a double sleeping bag my mother made for us.

At school our classmates __5__us Henfield One and Henfield Two, so people ___6__ even see our difference according to our initials  because __7__ of us were M.O. It was only when I went to  _8___ and began to have my own friends that I started to feel my own freedom of identity（身份）.

Before I went to college, during my secondary school __9__, I __10__ to a job on a building site. My twin brother, Mike Henfield, didn’t work. One day I asked my boss, “Can I have a week  _11__?”  “Certainly,” he said, “but you won’t have the job when you   12__ back.” I didn’t want to __13__ the job. So on Monday morning, Mike went there   in my  _14__, jacket and hat and he worked for me for one week __15___ of them knew the difference.

1. A. in                 B. for                   C. on            D. with

2. A. badder          B. worse               C. good         D. better

3. A. all boys                                     B. another boy      

C. all the other boys                            D. all the boys

4. A. day            B. holiday             C. night         D. mid-night

5. A. called           B. knew                C. told           D. made

6. A. didn’t           B. needn’t             C. mustn’t     D. couldn’t

7. A. very             B. each                 C. both          D. all

8. A. middle school B. college              C. high school D. school

9. A. holidays        B. week                C. weekend    D. holiday

10. A. received      B. got                   C. find           D. made

11. A. off             B. free                  C. on             D. back

12. A. came          B. will get             C. got            D. are

13. A. miss           B. lose                  C. lost           D. losing

14. A. coat            B. shirt                 C. shoes               D. trousers

15. A. None          B. Nobody            C. All            D. Each