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【題目】Too many people put off things that could bring them joy just because they haven’t thought about them, don’t have them on their schedules or are too stubborn to leave from their regular daily things.

One day I thought about all those women on the Titanic who refused sweet foods at dinner that fateful（命中注定的）night to cut out fatty foods. From then on, I’ve tried to be a little more changeable.

I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, “How about going to lunch in half an hour?” She would stammer (結(jié)巴地說(shuō)),“I can’t , I have clothes to wash. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday. I had a late breakfast. It looks like rain.” She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.

We live on promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect. We’ll go back and visit the grandparents when we get our baby, Stevie, toilet-trained. We’ll enjoy when we replace the living room carpet. We’ll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.

Life has a way accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we wake up, and all we have to show for our lives is a long list of “I’m going to”, “I plan on” and “Someday, when things settle down a bit”.

I love ice cream. But my lips had not touched ice cream in 10 years. The other day I stopped the car and bought an ice cream. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.

Now, go have a nice day. Do something you want to. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you say? And why are you waiting?

【1】The author mentioned（提到）the women on the Titanic to ________.

A. prove that cutting out fatty foods is difficult

B. tell people to enjoy themselves sometimes

C. encourage people to stick to regular daily things

D. tell us the importance of refusing unhealthy foods like sweet foods

【2】 What’s the author’s feeling in Paragraph3?

A. Angry. B. Happy. C. Humorous. D. Regretful.

【3】The underlined word “accelerating” in Paragraph 5 probably means “________”.

A. moving more quickly

B. going slower

C. becoming more difficult

D. getting more disappointing

【4】 In the author’s opinion, which of the following is the most likely to bring people true happiness?

A. Getting an ice cream every day.

B. Knowing what one wants completely.

C. Visiting loved ones as long as one has time.

D. Putting off the things that could bring us joy.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】A

【4】C

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了太多人推遲去做能帶給他們歡樂(lè)的事，僅僅是因?yàn)樗麄儧](méi)有想過(guò)那樣做，沒(méi)有將那些事提上日程或是拒絕放下他們?nèi)粘Ｗ龅氖�。作者用自己的�?jīng)歷告訴我們要立刻去做自己想做的事。

【1】推斷題。由第二段中One day I thought about all those women on the Titanic who refused sweet foods at dinner that fateful（命中注定的）night to cut out fatty foods. From then on, I’ve tried to be a little more changeable.

一天我想起所有那些在泰坦尼克號(hào)船上的女人，她們?cè)诿�中注定的那晚吃晚餐時(shí)拒絕吃甜食以便減去肥胖食品。從此以后，我盡力使自己變得更加多變。結(jié)合第一段中許多人推遲做令自己快樂(lè)的事，第二段中作者說(shuō)要讓自己變得多變，即指不被日常瑣事所拖，隨時(shí)做令自己快樂(lè)的事，故選B。

【2】推斷題。由第三段中We never did have lunch together意思為我們就從未一起享用午餐，可以看出作者是很后悔的，故選D。

【3】詞義猜測(cè)題。由第五段中Life has a way accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer.意思為：隨著我們年齡的增長(zhǎng)，生活也在加速，白天變得越來(lái)越短，我們對(duì)自己做出承諾的列表變得越來(lái)越長(zhǎng)。由后面as可知這和get older表達(dá)一樣的意思，人變老，生活就變快，故選A。

【4】推斷題。由最后一段Now, go have a nice day. Do something you want to. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you say? And why are you waiting?意思為：現(xiàn)在，快樂(lè)的過(guò)好每一天吧。做你想做的事。如果你很快就要死去，并且只能打一個(gè)電話，你會(huì)打給誰(shuí)？現(xiàn)在你為什么等待呢？可知作者是在勸誡你及時(shí)跟自己想念的人聯(lián)系，故選C。