72. Jason is a successful young businessman. He travels widely and enjoys adventures and challenges. Having been to many different countries, Jason is still looking for new places to visit. His biggest dream is to see every corner of the world before he retires.

71. A young mother raising her first child, Cathy tries to spend as much time as she can playing with her baby girl. She is eager to get more knowledge of child development and to better understand how young children look at the world.

69.We can infer from the passage that the writer ________.

A. enjoyed raw fish　　　　　　　　 　 B. had once been a prisoner　　　　　　

C. made the boat himself　　　　　　　 D. lived a comfortable life in the forest

68.The writer couldn’t land because of ________.

A. the soft muddy shore　　　　　　　 B. the thick forest

C. too many hills　　　　　　　　　　 D. the dangerous creatures

67. 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

C

Our boat floated on, between walls of forest too thick to allow us to see the land we were passing through, though we knew from the map that our river must from time to time be passing through hills. Nowhere did we find a place where we could have landed. Banks of soft mud prevented us going ashore (靠岸). In any case, what would we have done by landing? The country was full of snakes and other dangerous creatures, and the jungle was so thick that one would be able to advance only slowly, cutting one’s way with knives the whole way. So we stayed in the boat, hoping that when we reached the sea, a friendly fisherman would pick us up and take us to civilization.

We lived on fish, caught with a homemade net, and fruits and nuts we could pick up out of the water. As we had no fire, we had to eat everything, including the fish, raw. I had never tasted raw fish before, and I must say I did not much enjoy the experience.

One day we passed another village, but fortunately nobody saw us. We did not wish to risk being taken prisoners a second time: we might not be so lucky to get away in a stolen boat again.

66. The underlined sentence "It is so easy to exist instead of to live" in the fifth paragraph probably has the same meaning as 　　　　　　　

　 A. it is so easy to keep alive but not to live a real life

　 B. it is very hard to live a real life

　 C. it is so easy to make a living

　 D. it is more difficult to exist than to live a happy life

65. How did the author form her view of life?

　 A. By working and social experience.　　　 　B. Learning from her friends.

　 C. Through an unfortunate experience.　　　 D. Because of her children and husband.

64. What's the author's attitude toward work?

　 A. Do it well to serve others.

　 B. To earn enough money to make life better.

　 C. Try your best to get higher position and pay.

　 D. Don't let it affect your real life.

63. The older people didn’t give Booker much money because _________.

　 A. they had no jobs to do

　 B. they didn’t have much money

　 　C. they didn’t believe Booker would succeed

　 D. they didn’t wish Booker to go to school

　B

　　 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, 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(空闲), it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. 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, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, 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 try 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 it with joy and passion(热情) as it ought to be lived.