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, pletely 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 friendsB．Live a real lifeC．Don’t waste timeD．Be a good mother and wife【小题2】How did the author form her view of life?A．By working and social experienceB．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 lifeB．it is very hard to live a real lifeC．it is more difficult to exist than to live a happy lifeD．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 lifeB．the author didn’t try her best to work wellC．the author spent all her time caring for her children D．the author likes traveling very muchB
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(答案→)B
解析：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, pletely and totally.说明作者在生活中很成功。故A正确。