How many people have I met who have told me about the book they have been planning to write but have never yet found the time? Far too many .

This is Life , all right , but we do treat it like a rehearsal (排演) and , unhappily ,we do miss so many of its best moments.

We take jobs to stay alive and provide homes for our families always making ourselves believe that this style of life is merely a temporary state of affairs along the road to what we really want to do . Then , at 60 or 65 , we are suddenly presented with a clock and several grandchildren and we look back and realize that all those years waiting for real life to come along were in fact real life.

In America they have a saying much laughed at by the English :“ Have a nice day ”they speak slowly and seriously in their shops , hotels and sandwich bars . I think it is a wonderful phrase , reminding us , in effect , to enjoy the moment : to value this very day .

How often do we say to ourselves , “I’ll take up horse-riding (or golf , or sailing ) as soon as I do get a higher position ,”only to do none of those things when I do get the higher position .

When I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well paid respectable job at the Daily Telegraph to go and edit a small weekly newspaper . At the time I was astonished by what appeared to me to be his completely abnormal (反常的) mental state . How could anyone turn his back on  Fleet Street in central London for a small local area ? I wanted to know .

Now I am a little older and possibly wiser , I see the sense in it . In Fleet Street the man was under continual pressure . He lived in an unattractive London suburb and he spent much of his sitting on Southern Region trains.

60. The first paragraph of the passage tell us that___________________.

A. we always try to find some time to write a book

B. we always make plans but seldom fulfill them

C. we always enjoy many of life’s best moments

D. we always do what we really want to do

61.The underlined phrase “ turn his back on ”( Paragraph 6 ) most probably means______________.

A. leave for      B. return to      C. give up      D. rely on

62. What is probably the best title for the passage ?

A. Provide Homes For Our Family     B. Take Up Horse-riding

C. Value This Very Day              D. Stay Alive

第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项完成短文。

The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read beneath an old willow tree. Not   36__   with life, I was down. A young boy out of breath   37   me, all tired from play. He stood right before me with his head tilted(倾斜的) down,   38   with great excitement, “Look what I found!”

In his hand was a flower, and what a   39   sight, with its petals(花瓣) all worn-not enough rain, or too little light.   40   him to take his dead flower and go off to play, I   41   a small smile and then shifted away. But instead of   42  he sat next to my side and placed the flower to his nose and declared with   43  , “It sure smells pretty and it’s beautiful, too. That’s why I   44   it; here, it’s for you.”

The flower before me was dying or dead. But I knew I   45   take it, or he might never leave. So I reached for the flower, and   46  , “Just what I need.” But instead of placing the flower in my hand, he   47  it mid-air without reason. It was then that I   48   for the very first time the boy was   49  .

I heard my voice shake, tears shone like the sun   50   I thanked him for picking the very best one. He smiled, and then ran off to play,   51   of the effect he’d had on my day.

I sat there and   52  how he managed to see a self-pitying woman beneath an old willow tree. How did he know of my self-indulged(放纵的)  53  ? Perhaps from his heart, he'd been blessed with true   54 .

  55   the eyes of a blind child, at last I could see, the problem was not with the world; the problem was me. And for all of those times I myself had been blind, I vowed to see beauty, and appreciate every second that's mine.

36.A.excited     B.inspired    C.content     D.disappointed

37.A.approached      B.overlooked       C.understood       D.recognized

38.A.telling      B.saying      C.informing D.talking

39.A.unique      B.rough       C.bothering  D.pitiful

40.A.Wanting   B.Demanding      C.Persuading       D.Inviting

41.A.presented  B.adjusted    C.forced      D.delivered

42.A.declining  B.accepting  C.panicking  D.quitting

43.A.surprise    B.embarrassment C.sympathy  D.sorrow

44.A.took  B.pulled       C.attained    D.picked

45.A.should      B.can    C.may  D.must

46.A.announced       B.replied      C.declared    D.whispered

47.A.grasped    B.held  C.caught      D.seized

48.A.observed   B.confirmed C.noticed     D.concluded

49.A.strange     B.blind C.deaf  D.unimaginable

50.A.once  B.after  C.as      D.since

51.A.unaware   B.unbelievable     C.regretful   D.regardless

52.A. doubted     B. felt     C. found  D. wondered

53.   A. embarrassment   B. depression  C. hopelessness      D. effort

54.   A. sense  B. hearing      C. sight   D. ability

55.A.In     B.From C.Before      D.Through

Expressions about water are mostly as common as water itself.

The expression “to be in hot water “is one of them. It is a very old expression. Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble . One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing extremely hot water down on enemies attacking a castle. That no longer happens. But we still get “in hot water”. When we are in hot water, we are in trouble. It can be any kind of trouble , serious or not so serious. A person who breaks a law can be in hot water with the police. A young boy can be in hot water with his mother if he walks in the house with dirty shoes.

“Being in deep water” is almost the same as being in hot water . When you are in deep water, you are in a difficult position. Imagine a person who cannot swim being thrown in water over his head. You are in deep water when you are facing a problem that you don’t have the ability to solve. You can be in deep water, for example , if you invest in stocks without knowing anything about the stock market.

“To keep your heads above water” is a colorful expression that means staying out of debt. A company seeks to keep its head above water during economic hard times. A man who loses his job tries to keep his head above water until he finds a new job.

“Water over the dam” is another expression about past events. It is something that is finished, and cannot be changed . The expression comes from the idea that water has floated over a dam and cannot be brought back again. When a friend is troubled by a mistake he or she has made , you might tell him or her to forget about it. You say it is water over the dam.

Another common expression “to hold water” is about the strength or weakness of an idea or opinion that you may be arguing about . It probably comes from a way of testing the condition of a container. If it can hold water, it is strong and has no holes in it. If your argument can hold water, it is strong and does not have any holes;if it does not hold water, then ,it is weak and not worth debating.

“Throwing cold water” also is an expression that deals with ideas or proposals. For example, you want to buy a new car because the old one has some problems, but your wife throws cold water on the idea because she says a new car costs too much.

64.Don’t cheat in this exam! Or you’ll____ if you’re caught cheating by the teacher.

A.be in hot water           B.have to hold water

C.be in deep water          D.keep your head above water

65.The expression using water in paragraph ____has almost the same meaning as “things done cannot be undone.”

A.3              B.4               C.5           D.6

66.We can see from this passage that many of the expression using water have_____meanings.

A. funny       B. unpleasant       C. close       D. moral

67.The best title for this passage should be_______.

A.The history of the water      B.Cold water or hot water

C.Water and its culture        D.Expression and their stories

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