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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 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 wanted 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 as it ought to be lived.
小题1: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 |
小题2: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. |
小题3:The underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph probably means ______.| 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 more difficult to exist than to live a happy life | | D．it is so easy to make a living |
小题4:What is 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. |
小题5:It can be inferred from the passage that ______.| A．the author is a success in personal life | | B．the author didn’t try her best to work well | | C．the author spent all her time caring for her children | | D．the author likes traveling very much |
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小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:A |
解析
试题分析：本文讲述了什么是真正的生活。真正的生活就是按照自己的内心去生活，不要受到其它任何东西的影响，爱自己该爱的人，过自己想要的生活。
小题1:B 主旨大意题。根据文章第三段So here’s what I wanted 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.说明她这次演讲的主题就是过一种真实的生活。故B正确。
小题2:C 推理题。根据文章倒数第二段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. 说明我是从过去的那场不好的经历中得到的这次的教训，故C正确。
小题3:A 推理题。根据It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live.字面意思：存在而不是或者是如此的容易。故说明活着很容易，但是要想过着自己想要的生活是不容易的。A正确。
小题4:D 推理题。根据文章第一段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.和第四段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.说明要把工作当成生活的一部分，但是不要受到工作的影响，故D正确。
小题5:A 推断题。根据文章第一段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.和最后一段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.说明作者在生活中很成功。故A正确。
点评：本文告诉我们真正的生活就是按照自己的内心去生活，测试考生在阅读基础上的逻辑推理能力，要求考生根据文章所述事件的逻辑关系，对未说明的趋势或结局作出合理的推断；或根据作者所阐述的观点理论，对文章未涉及的现象、事例给以解释。考生首先要仔细阅读短文，完整了解信息，准确把握作者观点。 |
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I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, midlife for an elephant, and ancient for a sportsman. Fifty is a nice number for the states in the US or for a national speed limit but it is not a number that I was prepared to have hung on me. Fifty is supposed to be my father’s age, but now I am stuck with this number and everything it means.
A few days ago, a friend tried to cheer me up by saying, “Fifty is what forty used to be.” He had made an inspirational (有灵感的) point. Am I over the hill ? People keep telling me that the hill has been moved, and I keep telling them that the high-jump bar has dropped from the six feet I once easily cleared to the four feet that is impossible for me now.
“You are not getting older, you are getting better.” Says Dr. Joyce Brothers. This, however, is the kind of doctor who inspires a second opinion.
And so as I approach the day when I cannot even jump over the tennis net, I am moved to share some thoughts on aging with you, I am moved to show how aging feels to me physically and mentally. Getting older, of course, is obviously a better change than the one that brings you eulogies(悼词). In fact, a poet name Robert Browning considered it the best change of all:
Grow old along with me !
The best is yet to me.
Whether or not Browning was right, most of my first fifty years have been golden ones, so I will settle for what is ahead being as good as what has gone by. I find myself moving toward what is ahead with a curious blend(混合) of both fighting and accepting my aging, hoping that the philosopher(哲学家) was right when he said , “old is always fifteen years from now.”
小题1:The author seems to tell us in Paragraph 1 that ______.| A．time alone will tell | B．time goes by quickly | | C．time will show what is right | D．time makes one forget the past. |
小题2:When the author turned fifty, people around him ________ .| A．tried to comfort him | B．got inspiration with him | | C．were friendlier with him | D．found him more talkative |
小题3:The author considers his fifty years of life _________.| A．peaceful | B．ordinary | C．satisfactory | D．regretful |
小题4:We can infer from the passage that ________ .| A．the old should lead a simple life | | B．the old should face the fact of aging | | C．the old should take more exercise | | D．the old should fill themselves with curiosity |
小题5:Which of the following statements is WRONG?_______. | A．It’s hard for the author to jump over the six-feet high-jump bar now. | | B．The author is optimistic about his future. | | C．the author used to think 50 was far away from him. | | D．Most elephants live less than 50 years. |
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Emanuel’s father liked to declare he’d spent ages by the sea, breathing seawater. Now, away from the sea, in the hospital, his body just looked like a beached fish. His condition went from bad to worse. The doctor came from saying, “He’ll be home in a day,” “He’ll be home in a week,” to “He will be home in a month.”
When Emanuel was a teenager, if he ever seemed bored with the pier(码头), his father would shout, “What ? This isn’t good enough for you?” And later, when he suggested Emanuel take a job at the pier after high school, the boy almost laughed, and his father again said, “What? This isn’t good enough for you?” And before Emanuel went to war, when he talked of marrying Maggie and becoming an engineer, his father said, “What? This isn’t good enough for you?”
And now, here he was, Emanuel helped out at the pier, working evenings after his taxi job, doing his father’s labor.
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. It is not until much later that children understand: their stories and all their accomplishments sit on top of the stories of their mothers and fathers.
One night his father, lying in hospital, was practically too weak to speak. Others comforted him. “Your old man will pull through. He’s the toughest man we’ve ever seen.”
When the news came that his father had died, Emanuel felt heart-broken.
In the following weeks, Emanuel’s mother lived in a confused state. She spoke to her husband as if he were still there .She yelled at him to turn down the radio. She cooked enough food for two .One night, when Emanuel offered to help with the dishes, she said. “Your father will put them away.” Emanuel put a hand on her shoulder. “Ma,” he said softly, “Dad’s gone.”
“Gone where?” murmured Mum.
小题1:Which of the following shows the right order of the story?
a．Emanuel’s father fell ill.
b．Emanuel helped out at pier.
c．Emanuel went to the war.
d．Emanuel wished to be an engineer.
e. Emanuel’s mother lived in a confused state| A．bacde | B．dcabe | C．bceda | D．decba |
小题2:In Paragraph 4, the writer inplies that . | A．Children can never understand how much their parents have devoted to them | | B．Children wouldn’t have achieved so much without their parents’ support | | C．Children often feel regretful because they leave their parents | | D．Children like moving away from their parents |
小题3:The underlined phrase “pull through” can probably be replaced by ________| A．wake up | B．give up | C．pick up | D．get up |
小题4:The last paragraph mainly tells us that . | A．Emanuel’s mother was at a loss at her husband’s death. | | B．Emanuel often helped his mother to wash the dishes. | | C．Emanuel lived with his mother and often comforted her. | | D．Emanuel’s mother doesn’t like to listen to the radio. |
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Australia’s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to perform euthanasia(安乐死)—that’s to say, doctors are permitted to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. Word that the law was passed by the vote of 15 to 10 immediately flashed on the Internet and was picked up by John, the director of the Right to Die Society of Canada, who posted it on the group’s homepage online, saying, “This isn’t merely something that happened in Australia. It’s world history.”
The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill Law has left physicians and citizens trying to deal with its moral and practical influence. Some have breathed sighs of relief; but others, including churches, right to life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the law. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia--where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part—other states are going to consider making a similar law. In the U. S. and Canada, where the right to die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes (多米诺骨牌) to start falling.
Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death--probably by a deadly injection or pill--to end suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as incurably ill by two doctors. After a "cooling off" period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally Ill Law means he can get on with living without the disturbing fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. "I" m not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how I"d go, because I"ve watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks," he says.
小题1:According to the text, which of the following statements is TURE?| A．Patients will ask their doctors for euthanasia if they are afraid of illness. | | B．Australia, Canada and the US speak highly of the law of euthanasia. | | C．All people in Australia don’t share the positive attitude to euthanasia | | D．If a patient requests death, he should sign a certificate after 48 hours. |
小题2:The underlined sentence in Para 2, “observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.” means that observers are prepared to learn the news that .| A．some other countries pass similar laws | | B．Australia has to put an end to euthanasia | | C．people begin to change attitudes to euthanasia | | D．different effects result from the game of dominoes |
小题3:Which is NOT the reason for Australia to become the first country to pass the law of euthanasia?| A．Australia has advanced technology of extending life. | | B． Australians realize suffering from a terrible disease is worse than death. | | C．Australia is faced with a growing ageing population. | | D．Australians find it easy to deal with the moral and practical influence. |
小题4:It can be inferred from the text that .| A．Australia passed the law of euthanasia by the vote of 15 to 10 | | B．John and his group are in favor of the law of euthanasia in Australia. | | C．an adult patient can request euthanasia by a deadly injection or pill | | D．Lloyd has seen many people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen. |
小题5:What’s the author’s attitude to euthanasia?| A．Negative | B．Critical | C．Doubtful | D．Positive |
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I"d been travelling for long hours on a lonely country road when I had a flat tire. So I had to stop and get the tools to 36 the problem. It certainly wasn’t 37 doing this with a white shirt and suit on.
Nightfall was approaching. Suddenly a car pulled 38 from behind me. A man got out and offered to 39 me. Seeing his unpleasant appearance and tattoos（纹身）on his arm, I became 40 as thoughts of robberies flashed through my mind. But 41 I could say anything he had already begun to take the tools to change the 42 . While watching him I happened to look back at his car and noticed someone sitting in the passenger seat. This had 43 me.
Then, without 44 , it began to rain. He suggested that I wait in his car because my car was unsafe. As the rain increased, getting us wet within seconds, I 45 agreed. When I settle into the back seat, a woman’s voice came from the front seat. “Are you all right?” She turned around to me. “Yes, I am.’’ I replied with much 46 when seeing an old woman there. It must be his Mom, I thought. To my 47 , the old woman was a neighbor of the man who was helping me. “Jeff insisted on stopping when he saw you 48 with the tire. ”“I am grateful for his help, ” I said. “Me, too!” she said with a smile. He helped drive her to see her husband twice a week in a nursing home. She also said that he 49 at the church and tutored disadvantaged students.
The rain stopped and Jeff and I changed me tire. I tried to offer him money and of course he 50 it. It was shameful that I judged people by the way they 51 . As we shook hands I began to apologize for my 52 . He said, ‘‘I experience that same 53 often. People who look like me don’t do nice things. I 54 thought about changing the way. But then I saw this as a chance to make a 55 . So I’ll leave you with the same question I ask everyone who takes time to know me. If Jesus returned tomorrow and walked among us again, would you recognize Him by what He wore or by what He did?’’
| 小题2: | | A．useful | B．easy | C．wise | D．lucky |
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| 小题4: | | A．carry | B．lift | C．drive | D．help |
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| 小题5: | | A．discouraged | B．frightened | C．disappointed | D．astonished |
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| 小题6: | | A．when | B．until | C．as | D．before |
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| 小题7: | | A．tire | B．suit | C．expression | D．shirt |
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| 小题8: | | A．embarrassed | B．concerned | C．discouraged | D．puzzled |
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| 小题9: | | A．warning | B．realizing | C．knowing | D．waiting |
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| 小题10: | | A．directly | B．happily | C．hurriedly | D．unwillingly |
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| 小题11: | | A．fear | B．satisfaction | C．relief | D．excitement |
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| 小题12: | | A．regret | B．amusement | C．surprise | D．delight |
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| 小题13: | | A．working | B．repairing | C．fighting | D．struggling |
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| 小题14: | | A．studied | B．performed | C．grew | D．volunteered |
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| 小题15: | | A．refused | B．kept | C．ignored | D．left |
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| 小题16: | | A．behaved | B．spoke | C．looked | D．thought |
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| 小题17: | | A．selfishness | B．stupidity | C．weakness | D．disability |
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| 小题18: | | A．life | B．incident | C．reaction | D．change |
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| 小题19: | | A．hardly | B．actually | C．finally | D．probably |
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| 小题20: | | A．point | B．start | C．remark | D．comparison |
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I’m not so sure I like my friends any more. I used to like them — to be honest. We’d have lunch, talk on the phone or exchange e-mails, and they all seemed normal enough. But then came Facebook and I was introduced to a sad fact: many of my friends have dark sides that they had kept from me.
Today my friends show off the more unpleasant aspects of their personalities via Facebook. No longer hidden, they’re thrown in my face like TV commercials — unavoidable and endless advertisements for the worst of their personalities.
Take Fred. If you were to have lunch with him, you’d find him warm, and down-to-earth. Read his Facebook and you realize he’s an unbearable, food-obsessed bore. He’d pause to have a cup of coffee on his way to save a drowning man — and then write about it.
Take Andy. You won’t find a smarter CEO anywhere, but now he’s a CEO without a company to lull. So he plays Mafia Wars on Facebook. He’s doing well — level 731. Thanks to Facebook, I know he’s playing about 18 hours a day. Andy, you’ve run four companies — and this is how you spend your downtime? What happened to golf? What happened to getting another job?
Take Liz. She is positive that the H1N1 vaccine will kill us all and that we should avoid it. And then comes Chris who likes to post at least 20 times a day on every website he can find, so I get to read his thoughts twice, once on Facebook and once on Twitter.
In real life, I don’t see these sides of people. Face to face, my friends show me their best. They’re nice, smart people. But face to Facebook, my friends are like a blind date which goes horribly wrong.
I’m left with a dilemma. Who is my real friend? Is it the Liz I have lunch with or the anti-vaccine lunatic(狂人)on Facebook? Is it the Fred I can grab a sandwich with or the Fred who weeps if he’s at a party and the wine isn’t up to his standards?
小题1:Who is opposed to the H1N1 vaccine in the text?| A．Fred. | B．Andy. | C．Liz. | D．Chris. |
小题2:What’s Andy probably busy in doing now?| A．He’s running his company. | | B．He’s playing golf all day. | | C．He’s looking for another job. | | D．He’s playing computer games. |
小题3:According to the text, Facebook tends to ______. | A．present another side of people | | B．offer some food for free | | C．show endless advertisements | | D．get you to more parties |
小题4:The text is developed mainly by ______. | A．giving examples | B．following the time order | | C．listing figures | D．raising questions |
小题5:The author focuses on the question of ______. | A．what is Facebook | B．what happened to golf | | C．who is my real friend | D．who can help me |
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