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【译林湖南版】2011高考英语一轮复习提能训练 Module 9 Units 3～4Ⅰ.完形填空 A A friend of mine opened his wife’s underwear drawer and picked up a (n)__1__paper wrapped package. “This，” he said，“ isn’t a(n)__2__package.” He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.“She got this the first time we went to New York,8 or 9 years ago.She has never put it on.She was__3__it for a special occasion.” He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothing he was taking to the funeral house－his wife had just__4__.He turned to me and said，“__5__save something for a special occasion.Every living day is a special day.” I still think those words changed my life.Now I read more and clean less.I sit on the porch without worrying about__6__.I spend more time with my family，and less at work.I understand that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to，not survived through.I__7__keep anything.I’ll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket，if I feel like it.I don’ t save my special perfume for special occasions.I use it whenever I want to.The words “Someday...” and “ One day...” are fading away from my__8__.If it’s worth seeing，listening or doing，I want to see，listen or do it now. I don’ t know what my friend’ s wife would have done if she had known she wouldn’t be there the next morning，and nobody can tell this.I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.She might have called old friends to__9__over past quarrels.I’d like to think she would go out to Chinese restaurants for her favourite food.It’s these small things that I would__10__not doing，if I knew my time had come. | 
