Question

How many people have I met who have told me about the book they have been planning to write but have never yet found the time? Far too many.

This is Life, all right, but we do treat it like a rehearsal (排演）and, unhappily, we do miss so many of its best moments.

We take jobs to stay alive and provide homes for our families always making ourselves believe that this style of life is merely a temporary state of affairs along the road to what we really want to do. Then, at 60 or 65, we are suddenly presented with a clock and several grandchildren and we look back and realize that all those years waiting for Real Life to come along were in fact real life.

     In  America they have a saying much laughed at by the English：“Have a nice day” they speak slowly and seriously in their shops, hotels and sandwich bars. I think it is a wonderful phrase, reminding us, in effect, to enjoy the moment: to value this very day.

     How often do we say to ourselves, "I'll take up horse-riding (or golf, or sailing） as soon as I get a higher position," only to do none of those things when I do get the higher position.

       When I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well paid respectable job at the Daily Telegraph to go and edit a small weekly newspaper. At the time I was astonished by what appeared to me to be his completely abnormal (反常的） mental state. How could anyone turn his back on  Fleet Street in central London for a small local area？I wanted to know.

     Now I am a little older and possibly wiser, I see the sense in it. In Fleet Street the man was under continual pressure. He lived in an unattractive London suburb and he spent much of his life sitting on Southern Region trains.

1.The first paragraph of the passage tells us that  _______ .

A. we always try to find some time to write a book

B. we always make plans but seldom fulfil them

C. we always enjoy many of life's best moments

D. we always do what we really want to do

2.The underlined phrase "turn his back on" (paragraph 6） most probably means      .

A. leave for      B. return to       C. give up     D. rely on

3. The man ( paragraph 6） left his first job partly because he was ______.

A. in an abnormal mental state     B. under too much pressure

C. not well paid                 not respected

4.What is probably the best title for the passage?

A. Provide Homes For Our Family    B. Take Up Horse-riding

C. Value This Very Day            D. Stay Alive

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.C

3.B

4.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要告訴我們在生活中要珍惜每一天，享受每一天。要去做自己想做的事情。

1.B 細節題。根據文章1,2行How many people have I met who have told me about the book that they have been planning to write but have never yet found the time? Far too many說明很多人有計劃沒有行動，故B正確。

2.猜詞題：從倒數的二段的句子：When I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well paid respectable job at the Daily Telegraph to go and edit a small weekly newspaper. 可知這個人放棄了Daily Telegraph 的工作，選C

3.B 推理題。根據文章最后兩行In Fleet Street the man was under continual pressure .He lived in an unattractive London suburb and he spent much of his life sitting on Southern Region trains .說明這個人在倫敦的工作的壓力太大，所以他選擇離開。故B正確。

4.C 主旨大意題。在文章第二段中告訴我們要珍惜生活中的每一天，要享受每一天。不要總是被生活的壓力所左右。C項正確。

考點：考查人生哲理類短文