A. Arguments are pointless.
B. Your parents only want what's best for you.
C. Everyone's opinion matters only as much as you want them to.
D. You learn by doing.
E. Your emotions are under your control.
F. You aren't stuck in any situation
Life is the greatest teacher
There always comes a moment when I wonder where I will end up and this moment always serves as a strong motivation for me to learn life lesson. I've learned a great many things, but these are the lessons that I wish I'd learned earlier:
【小题1】_________
There was a time when everyone's opinion was mine as well. Whatever preferences I formerly held were dashed in the face of another's. This most likely came from a need to please others. Remember that your opinion matters just as much as the next guy's, whether they make more money than you or are less popular than you. Everyone's opinion holds the same weight.
【小题2】_________
Drama, chaos, and emotional unrest — these were what took up most of my time as a teenager. If I had heard someone said bad things behind my back, I'd be angry. Go crazy. Looking back on those tantrums now, I'm not too surprised. After all, when you have little self control, anything is possible. The lesson here is, remain aware of how you react.
【小题3】_________
Will one small argument among friends decide the fate of the entire universe? In my world it felt like it. I just wanted so much to be right and for them so much to be wrong. But in the end, it only resulted in me wasting my time and in the other person storming off in frustration. Is there really a point to arguing? Unless it's absolutely necessary, I've learned that it's better to hold your breath on things you can't control at all. Arguing to change someone's mind is one of them.
【小题4】_________
I'm not saying every parent wants what's best for you (there are outliers), but in general, parents do what they do for you in your best interest. My parents used to make me do the dishes, cook dinner, sweep the floors, mow the lawn, take out the garbage… the list goes on and on. And at every turn, I'd whine and complain. I'd eventually end up doing it. Now, I honestly see the value in having learned those skills. I can efficiently cook and clean up after myself.
【小题5】_________
Whenever I’d lose a friend, get an awful grade, or disappoint my parents, I stewed in my own muck. Waiting for the bad moments to go away seemed to be the only solution. Fortunately, I know now that you don’t have to be stuck in bad situations. You can go out and create better ones. It all depends on perspective; on how you see the situation. Viewing everything as a learning experience makes life more pleasurable, even during the hard times. You aren't stuck. You can move on.
I'm glad to have learned these lessons the way I did. Each experience helped shape me to become a better person. I don't know if any young people are reading this, but if they are, I'd like to say this: “Listen to life and its experiences. Everyone goes through mostly the same things.”

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’ll most certainly be right” It made a deep   1 on me, and since then, for the past 33 years，I have  2 in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life，  3 I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a 4 ，I know I need to change something．
Remembering that I’ll be   5  soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big 6 in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death，  7 only what is truly important.
About a year ago I was  8 with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs  9 order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die．I  10 with that diagnosis all day．  11 ，at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is  12 with surgery．I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
 13 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  14 ．No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of   15 ．It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to   16  for the new．Right now the new is you．But someday not too  17  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  18 ，so don’t waste it living someone else’s 1ife．Don’t be  19 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   20 ．And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart.

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

I remember a day when I was a little kid. I was making a sandwich in the kitchen when I noticed the date on one of the wine bottles.

“ Dad, dad!” I cried. “This wine is too old to drink.”

“ Son, hold on,” he said.

“ No, you can’t drink this tonight! This bottle of wine was made 10 years ago.”

“ Wait, let me tell you…”

“ Would you like me to throw it away fro you?” I asked.

“ Son, wait a second,” he said. “Son, some wines get better over time. The longer you wait to drink it, the better it will be. Although this may seem strange, it is true.”

When I was young, I didn’t have any understanding of what this meant, but now, this would have been very helpful to remember as I went through my teenage years.

In our society, we forget this simple rule: The longer you want for certain things, the better they will be. But we want the best job as quickly as possible; we want to graduate from college in as few years as possible; we even speed through our homework just to chat with friends. When we do this, we lose something of great importance.

We all want to get to the next step so quickly that perhaps we don’t get ready enough to get there. This has a negative effect on our society. When trying to go to the right college, we will do anything to get in and when we rush through our class-work, we may not study enough for the test, and end up failing. We need to be ready for whatever comes, ready for the unexpected. Wine gets better over time, so do the things in our paths of life.

1.Why did the author tell his father not to drink the bottle of wine?

A．Because it smelt terrible.

B．Because it had been kept for years.

C．Because it was mixed with something else.

D．Because his father drank too much that night.

2.What the author’s father said __________.

A．made the author puzzled when he was a little child.

B．was too simple a rule to be meaningful to the author.

C．threw the author into deep thought then.

D．was an excuse to drink the wine.

3.In the author’s opinion, if we do things too quickly, we will __________.

A．do it better

B．save much time

C．graduate from college more quickly

D．miss something useful to us in life

4.Which of the following best reflects the main idea of the passage?

A．Well begun is half done.

B．More haste, less speed.

C．Failure is the mother of success.

D．Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.