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【題目】As a listening child,I often heard【1】(old) people say:"What dreams I had!"and"If only I had my life to live over."I【2】(understand) that these men and women had missed the fullness of life somehow.

But I wasn't going to miss it,I decided at the age of fourteen.In a slightly【3】(use) copy book,I made a full list of what I wanted from life.I would be devoted to【4】(realize) them one by one.【5】,as years went by,I was middle aged and alone.My children had left to make their own full life somewhere.I,too,didn't realize even half the amount 【6】what I had planned.One rainy night,I went to the bookstore to get a paperback book to read【7】(me) to sleep on.I picked up an Emile Zola book,【8】reminded me of something I had read long ago: Zola had said,“To have a child,to plant a tree,to write a book.”That,he said,was a full life!A great stillness grew about me as I realized I had a child,I'd planted a tree,and in fact,I'd even written a book.

Eventually,I came to a clear【9】(conclude),and it is【10】university one: To live,to struggle,to be in love with life is fulfillment.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】other

【2】understood

【3】used

【4】realizing

【5】However

【6】of

【7】myself

【8】which

【9】conclusion

【10】a

【解析】這篇文章主要講了人生的短暫，常常使我們心懷不安，時時惶惑，左右思量，唯恐虛度。人的一生該如何度過?怎樣的生活才算是完滿?很多人終其一生尋找答案，或茫然無措，或追悔莫及。可殊不知，也許，生活賜予我們的已足夠完滿，只是我們尚不自知；也許，完滿的人生原本就很簡單，不過是——活著，拼搏，熱愛我們所擁有的這或喜或悲的生活……

【1】考查形容詞。我經(jīng)常聽到年長的人說。Older年長的.

【2】考查時態(tài)。發(fā)生在過去的事情，用一般過去時，所以填understood。

【3】考查形容詞。表示“一本二手書”，所以填used。

【4】考查固定用法。be devoted to doing專心于，致力于，是固定用法，填realizing。

【5】考查副詞。然而隨著時間的流失，我中年了并且感覺很孤獨。填However。

【6】考查固定用法。the amount of……的數(shù)量，是固定用法，填of。

【7】考查反身代詞。我去書店獲得一本簡裝書，留著讓自己閱讀。所以填myself。

【8】考查定語從句。___8___reminded me of something I had read long ago是一個定語從句，關(guān)系詞在從句中作主語，修飾先行詞an Emile Zola book，指物，填which。

【9】考查固定短語。Come to a conclusion得出結(jié)論，是固定用法，填conclusion。

【10】考查冠詞。泛指“一個普遍的理論”，且university的首字母發(fā)音是輔音，用不定冠詞a。