When studying in a middle school，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 36 on me, and since then, for the past 33 years，I have 37 in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life， 3 8 I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a 39 ，I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I’ll be 40 soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big 41 in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death， 42 only what is truly important.
About a year ago I was 43 with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs 44 order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die. I 45 with that diagnosis all day. 46 ，at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is 47 with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
48 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 49 . No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of 50 . It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to 51 for the new. Right now the new is you. But someday not too 52 from now，you will gradually bee the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic，but it is quite true.
Your time is 53 ，so don’t waste it living someone else’s 1ife. Don’t be 54 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 55 . And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart.
【小题1】A．joke B．impressionC．curseD．decision【小题2】A．1ost B．seenC．lookedD．found【小题3】A．could B．wouldC．shouldD．might【小题4】A．row B．hurryC．1ineD．moment【小题5】A．frustratedB．successfulC．richD．dead【小题6】A．choices B．apologiesC．fortuneD．impressions【小题7】A．telling B．provingC．leavingD．confirming【小题8】A．round B．diagnosedC．curedD．treated【小题9】A．at B．onC．forD．in【小题10】A．1ived B．metC．gotD．did【小题11】A．So B．HoweverC．ButD．Therefore【小题12】A．changeable B．incurableC．curableD．fatal【小题13】A．Everyone B．AnyoneC．SomeoneD．No one【小题14】A．escape B．wantC．avoidD．share【小题15】A．disease B．destinationC．1ifeD．science【小题16】A．make way B．make upC．make forD．make our【小题17】A．away B．distantC．shortD．long【小题18】A．1ost B．1imitedC．rareD．enough【小题19】A．trapped B．wastedC．cheatedD．excited【小题20】A．confusion B．voiceC．loveD．directionB
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(答案→)B
解析：36. Make a deep impression on sb 给。。。留下深刻的印象。
37.look in the mirror 在镜子内看自己。
38.If today were the last day of my life， 3 8 I want to do what I am about to do today?” 虚拟句。 If 后用过去式， 主句用would +动词原形。所以选B
39.In a row 连续不断地
40.根据36 前的句子，可看出D “记住我将死这件事是一个非常重要的工具使我作出选择。”
41.所以这儿是make a choice 做选择
42.结果状语。 Leave “留下”这儿翻译成“留下非常重要的东西”
43.Be diagnosed with “被诊断出”这儿是被诊断出癌症。
44.“医生建议我回家，料理我的后事。”in order “按顺序”
45.Live with “和。。。生活在一起”/ 忍受。 这儿翻译为“我每天都忍受着这一诊断。”
46.表转折， but 是连词，得跟句子。 However 副词， 用逗号隔开。
47.“这是一种罕见的癌可以通过手术治疗。”所以用curable “可以治愈的”
48.“没有人想死。”所以选D
49.Share “分享”这儿翻译为“死亡是每个人的终点。”
50.death is very likely the single best invention of 50 “死亡是生命的最好的证明。”
51. It clears out the old to 51 for the new. Make way for “为。。。让路”“它清除老的， 为新的让路。”
52.But someday not too 52 from now，you will gradually bee the old and be cleared away.
“某天居今也不是太长，你将慢慢变老然后被清除。”long “长的”
53.你的时间是有限的。 Limited “有限的”
54.trapped “被困住的”这儿翻译为“别被教条所限制”
55.Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner 55 .“被让别人的观点淹没你内心的声音”voice“声音，呼声”