When I was 17，I read a quote that went something like：“If you live each day as if it were your last，someday you’11 most certainly be right．”It made a deep? ? ? on me．and since then, for the past 33 years，I have? ? ? in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life， ? ? I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a? ? ? ，I know I need to change something．

??? Remembering that I’ll be? ? soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big ? ? in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death， ? only what is truly important

??? About a year ago I was? ? ? with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs? ? ? order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die．I? ? with that diagnosis all day． ? ? ，at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is? ? ? with surgery．I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

??? ? ? 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 ? ? ．No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of ? ．It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to? ? ? for the new．Right now the new is you, but someday not too? ? ? 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? ? ，so don’t waste it living someone else’s 1ife．Don’t be? ? ? 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 ? ? ．And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart

1.A. impression???? B. curse?????????? C. decision??????? D. joke

2.A. seen?????????? B. looked????????? C. found?????????? D. 1ost

3.A. would????????? B. should????????? C. might?????????? D. could

4.A. hurry????????? B. 1ine??????????? C. moment????????? D. row

5.A. successful? ??? B. rich??????????? C. dead??????????? D. frustrated

6.A. apologies????? B. fortune???????? C. impressions???? D. choices

7.A. proving??????? B. leaving???????? C. confirming????? D. telling

8.A. diagnosed????? B. cured?????????? C. treated???????? D. round

9.A. on???????????? B. for???????????? C. in????????????? D. at

10.A. met??????????? B. got???????????? C. did???????????? D. 1ived

11.A. However??????? B. But???????????? C. Therefore?????? D. So

12.A. incurable? ??? B. curable???????? C. fatal?????????? D. changeable

13.A. Anyone???????? B. Someone???????? C. No one????????? D. Everyone

14.A. want?????????? B. avoid?????????? C. share?????????? D. escape

15.A. destination??? B. 1ife??????????? C. science??? ???? D. disease

16.A. make up??????? B. make for??????? C. make our??????? D. make way

17.A. distant??????? B. short?????????? C. long??????????? D. away

18.A. 1imited??????? B. rare??????????? C. enough????????? D. 1ost

19.A. wasted???????? B. cheated???????? C. excited???????? D. trapped

20.A. voice????????? B. love??????????? C. direction?????? D. confusion

Recently I spoke to some of my students about what they wanted to do after they graduated, and what kind of job prospects they thought they had.
Given that I teach students who are training to be doctors, I was surprised to find that most thought that they would not be able to get the jobs they wanted without “outside help”. “What kind of help is that?” I asked, expecting them to tell me that they would need a relative or family friend to help them out.
“Surgery(外科手术)”, one replied.
I was pretty alarmed by that response. It seems that the graduates of today are increasingly willing to go under the knife to get ahead of others when it comes to getting a job.
One girl told me that she was considering surgery to increase her height. “They break your legs, put in special extending screws, and slowly expand the gap between the two ends of the bone as it regrows, you can get at least 5cm taller!”
At that point, I was shocked. I am short, I can’t deny that, but I don’t think I would put myself through months of agony(痛苦) just to be a few centimeters taller. I don’t even bother to wear shoes with thick soles, as I’m not trying to hide the fact that I am just not tall!
It seems to me that there is a trend toward wanting “perfection”, and that is an ideal that just does not exist in reality.
No one is born perfect, yet magazines, TV shows and movies present images of thin, tall, beautiful people as being the norm. Advertisements for slimming aids, beauty treatments and cosmetic surgery clinics fill the pages of newspapers, further creating an idea that “perfection” is a requirement, and that it must be purchased, no matter what the cost.
In my opinion, skills, rather than appearance, should determine how successful a person is in his chosen career.
【小题1】We can know from the passage that the author works as ________.

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66. What i_____________ you to choose a career in nursing?

67. It will __________ ____ (吸引) those who love Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.

68. Please remember to take all your personal p______________ with you when you leave the aircraft.

69. The poems may not make sense and even seem c_______________, but they are easy to learn and recite.

70. Did you know that English speakers also enjoy other forms of Asian poetry —Tang poems from China ____ ____________(尤其是)？

71. The s__________ she felt over the death of her dog was almost too much to bear.

72. During adolescence I also smoked and became ___________ ____ cigarettes.

73. Commercial television is an ______________ (有影响的，有效果的) medium for advertising.

74. If you develop AIDS, your chances of s___________ are very small.

75. He had been ill for a long time and c______________ he was behind in his work.

76. On the other hadn, there are those, like George Hambley, who _____ __________ ____ (反对) this view.

77. People should ___________ (拥护、提倡) improvements in the way we use energy today.

78. Having studied volcanoes for many years, I am still amazed at their beauty as well as their _____________ (潜能) to cause great damage.

79. How can I e_____________ his ability without seeing his work?

80. Since your brother ____ ________________ ____ (没有意识到……) his shortcomings, it is you that should tell him.

Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family，and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck.I’m not going to say luck，talent，and circumstances don’t come into play because they do.Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence，and that’s just the reality of how life is.

However，to succeed in life，one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical.And，in addition to that，in order to get really good at something，one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practising.To become great at certain things，it’ll require even more time，time that most people won’t put in.

This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love.If you don’t enjoy what you do，it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.

When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success，you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost.It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent，but thinking that way does you no good，and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.

Whatever you do，if you want to become great at it，you need to work day in and day out，almost to the point of addiction，and over a long period of time.If you’re not willing to put in the time and work，don’t expect to receive any rewards.Consistent，hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want，but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.

1.Paragraph 1 mainly talks about________.

A．the reasons for success

B．the meaning of success

C．the standards of success

D．the importance of success

2.In Paragraph 2，the underlined word that refers to________.

A．being good at something

B．setting a practical goal

C．putting in more time

D．succeeding in life

3.Successful people suggest doing what one loves because________.

A．work makes one feel pain

B．one tends to enjoy his work

C．one gives up his work easily

D．it takes a lot of time to succeed

4.What can we infer from Paragraph? 4?

A．Successful people like to show their great skills.

B．People sometimes succeed without luck or talent.

C．People need to achieve success at the cost of life.

D．It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success.

5.What is the main theme of the passage?

A．Having a goal is vital to success.

B．Being good is different from being great.

C．One cannot succeed without time and practice.

D．Luck，talent and family help to achieve success.

The Guardian newspaper once printed a story about a man who tripped over his shoelace in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Falling down some steps, he ___21____ three priceless Qing Dynasty vases, which fell to the ground and broke into more than 400 pieces. He was sitting there in ___ 22___ when the museum staff arrived. Everyone stood around in silence --- only the man kept pointing to the ___23___, saying, “There it is! That’s what made me fall.”

Man has been blaming others at least since Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the serpent(蛇). Roman emperors liked to kill ____ 24___ who brought bad news; and in the Middle Ages a prince would often be given a “whipping boy” --- an unlucky servant who could be ___25____ whenever his master had misbehaved. Today, you’ll see how blaming others has turned into big __26_____ business. In one famous case, McDonald’s was ordered to pay $2.7 million to a woman who ____27____ burned herself with hot coffee. Although the amount was later ___28_____ to $480,000, this case ____29___ businesses so much that they began to create 30   for their products that even an idiot（傻子）would understand. For example, “Hot coffee can be dangerous” (take away coffee cups) and “Don’t pour liquids into your television set” (instruction booklet).

A. broke down           B. knocked over            C. crashed into              D. slid down

A. terror             B. amazement               C. sadness                     D. shock

A. shoelace         B. vase                         C. steps                        D. pieces

A. servants          B. ministers                  C. messengers               D. slaves

A. killed             B. sentenced                 C. rewarded                  D. beaten

A. legal                      B. public                      C. lawless                     D. legendary

A. deliberately            B. accidentally                     C. carelessly                 D. attentively

A. increased        B. reduced                    C. raised                    D. dropped

A. surprised        B. excited                     C. inspired                    D. terrified

A. advertisements   B. posters                         C. warnings           D. instructions