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题组层级快练(十八) Ⅰ.完形填空 A passenger started a conversation with a sniffling (抽鼻子) stranger, apparently due to the recent cold. “___1___ me!” the healthy one said ___2___, “Never a day’s sickness in my life, and it is due to the ___3___ food. Why? Because from the age of twenty, I lived an absolutely simple, regular life — no ___4___ nights, no extravagance (奢侈). Every day, ___5___, I went to bed regularly at nine o’clock at night and ___6___ at five in the next morning. I ate a plain meal at noon and, after that, ___7___ in the tennis club for an hour ...” “Excuse me,” ___8___ the sniffling stranger, “but what is the point?” That kind of life ___9___ too much like being under a sentence (判刑). Some people can go overboard for a rigid (死板的) routine. I once went on a near-starvation ___10___ just to drop a few pounds. In two weeks I ___11___ five pounds and the will to ___12___. Self-discipline is important to be happy, but a rigid routine may not be the ___13___. Mark Twain gave some ___14___ about discipline. “Do one thing every day you don’t want to do,” he suggested. I think I can do that. One thing I’ve always ___15___. One thing I always said I ought to do, but never made the ___16___. We believe doing something that is important but we don’t want to do is a price we pay for ___17___. Call it duty, or call it paying the price, ___18___ that may be what it really is. | 
