How many people have I met who have told me about the book that 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 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 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 life sitting on Southern Region trains .
小題1:The first paragraph of the passage tells 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
小題2:The man （in paragraph 6）left his first job partly because he was_________.
A．in an abnormal stateB．under too much pressure
C．not well paidD．not respected
小題3:What is probably the best title for the passage?
A．Provide Homes For Our FamilyB．Take Up Horse-riding
C．Value This Very DayD．Stay Alive

小題1:B
小題1:B
小題1:C

試題分析：本文主要告訴我們在生活中要珍惜每一天，享受每一天。要去做自己想做的事情。
小題1:B 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章1,2行How many people have I met who have told me about the book that they have been planning to write but have never yet found the time? Far too many說明很多人有計劃沒有行動，故B正確。
小題2:B 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后兩行In Fleet Street the man was under continual pressure .He lived in an unattractive London suburb and he spent much of his life sitting on Southern Region trains .說明這個人在倫敦的工作的壓力太大，所以他選擇離開。故B正確。
小題3:C 主旨大意題。在文章第二段中告訴我們要珍惜生活中的每一天，要享受每一天。不要總是被生活的壓力所左右。C項正確。
點評：本文主要測試考生在閱讀基礎(chǔ)上的邏輯推理能力，要求考生根據(jù)文章所述事件的邏輯關(guān)系，對未說明的趨勢或結(jié)局作出合理的推斷；或根據(jù)作者所闡述的觀點理論，對文章未涉及的現(xiàn)象、事例給以解釋。考生首先要仔細閱讀短文，完整了解信息，準確把握作者觀點。
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A．Win the Badwater Ultra-Marathon.
B．Run a marathon to the South Pole.
C．Run fifty marathons, in fifty states, in fifty days.
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My mother is healthier now and back to her 53   activities. Our lives are busy but I am a little more willing to 54  around the house. I   55 my mother’s ability to stay optimistic and I only hope that some day I can be lucky enough to be like her.
小題1:
A．present B．short C．boring D．hard
小題2:
A．shockedB．discouragedC．disappointedD．hurt
小題3:
A．but B．though C．whileD．since
小題4:
A．upB．throughC．a(chǎn)way D．off
小題5:
A．worriedB．impressedC．benefited fromD．depended on
小題6:
A．complainedB．mindedC．movedD．spoke
小題7:
A．questionedB．explainedC．understoodD．learned
小題8:
A．welcomedB．received C．changedD．a(chǎn)ccepted
小題9:
A．As well asB．Because ofC．In caseD．As a result
小題10:
A．beggedB．refusedC．decidedD．pretended
小題11:
A．chanceB．turnC．luckD．responsibility
小題12:
A．respectB．opinionC．giftD．job
小題13:
A．thoughtB．knownC．realized D．understood
小題14:
A．lessonsB．pleasuresC．troublesD．experiences
小題15:
A．a(chǎn)llB．nothingC．lessD．more
小題16:
A．dreamedB．knewC．neededD．borrowed
小題17:
A．fromB．forC．a(chǎn)gainstD．without
小題18:
A．interestingB．often C．busyD．normal
小題19:
A．work outB．set outC．look aboutD．help out
小題20:
A．treasureB．respectC．a(chǎn)dmireD．a(chǎn)dmit

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