Ⅰ.完形填空(2010江西省九江市六校联考) “If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.” It was the quote that __1__ me deeply when I was 17, and since then, for the past 34 years, I have looked __2__ the mirror every morning and asked myself: “ If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “ __3__ ” 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 thing I've ever known to help me to make a __6__ in life because almost everything falls off in the face of death, __7__ only what is truly important. About a year ago the doctor __8__ my illness as cancer, he even advised me to go home and get my affairs in __9__. I lived with that diagnosis all day.__10__, at last an __11__ test showed that it was a very rare cancer which was __12__ with surgery. After the surgery I feel and look fine now. Death is the destination we all __13__, no one has ever escaped it,though. And that is __14__ it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will __15__ become the old and be __16__ away. |