I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

     I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows (誓約) mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here's what I wanted to tell you today: get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion (提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love,and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure(休閑) but work. Pick up the phone. Send an e?mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to waste our lives,our days,our hours,and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of living. I learned to live many years ago. Something really,really bad happened to me,something that changed my life. If I had my choice,it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what,today,seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey,not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and tried to give some of it back because I believed in it,completely and totally. And I tried to do that,in part,by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them this:read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness,because if you do,you will live with joy and passion(激情) as it ought to be lived.

1.How did the author form her view of life?

A.Through social experience.

B.By learning from her friends.

C.Through an unfortunate experience.

D. From her children and husband.

2.By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of living.” in the fifth paragraph,the author really means that people tend to________.

A.make a living rather than live a real life

B.work rather than enjoy life

C.waste a lot in life

D.forget the most important lesson in life

3.What’s the author’s attitude toward work?

A.Do it well to serve others.

B.Earn enough money to make life better.

C.Try your best to get higher position and pay.

D.Don’t let it affect your real life.

4.It can be inferred from the passage that________.

A.the author is a success in personal life

B.the author doesn’t try her best to work well

C.the author spends all her time caring for her children

D.the author likes traveling very much

 

1.C

2.A

3.D

4.A

【解析】

試題分析:這篇文章主要講了作者通過一次不幸的經(jīng)歷,形成了她的生活觀。在日常生活中,人們總是謀生,而不是真正的享受生活。作者認為對待工作的態(tài)度是不要讓它影響自己的真正生活。

1.

2.It is so easy to exist instead of living.可知作者意思是人們總是謀生,而不是真正的享受生活,故選A。

3.

4.

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