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Ⅰ.完形填空(建议用时17′) [2016·河北阶段检测]Years ago, I would wake up two or three times each night because of terrible pains. Having watched my father die of cancer, I __1__ that I also had a cancer. So I went to a clinic. A doctor examined me, gave me some medicine and cleared my mind of __2__ that I had a cancer. He suggested I should relax. After hearing these words, I felt __3__ and acted on the doctor's __4__. One day while I was looking over an accumulation of old __5__ on matters that were past and gone, I threw them into the wastebasket one by one. __6__ I stopped and said to myself, “Bill, why don't you do the __7__ thing with your worries that you are doing with these notes？” That idea gave me immediate __8__—gave me the feeling of a weight being lifted from me. From that day, I have made it a(n) __9__ to throw into the wastebasket all the __10__ that I can no longer do anything about. Then one day while my wife was wiping the dishes happily, another idea __11__ to me. I thought, “Look, Bill, how __12__ your wife is. Had she thought of washing the pile of dirty dishes like a barn these years, she would have been __13__ by the thought. The reason my wife doesn't __14__ washing the dishes now is that she washes only one day's dishes at a time.” I saw what my __15__ was. I was trying to wash today's dishes and yesterday's dishes and __16__ the dishes that weren't dirty yet. | 
