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 are good 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, 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, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an email. 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 to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, 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 try 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 it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.
【小題1】The best title of this passage probably is______ .

A．Love your friendsB．Live a real life
C．Don’t waste timeD．Be a good mother and wife
【小題2】. 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.
【小題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.


【小題1】B
【小題2】C
【小題3】D

解析試題分析：本文介紹了作者認(rèn)真對待生活的態(tài)度。
【小題1】主旨題：通讀全文可知作者熱愛生活，認(rèn)真對待生活。故選B。
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)文章第五段“I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me…”可知許多年前我就開始學(xué)習(xí)怎樣生活了。一些很不好的事情發(fā)生在我的身上，同時也改變了我的生活...。選B。
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)第一段I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent（我從不讓工作影響自己做一個好母親）.可知選D。
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