When I was 17，I read a quote that went something like：“If you live each day as if it were your last，someday you’11 most certainly be right．”It made a deep on me．and since then, for the past 33 years，I have in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life， I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a ，I know I need to change something．
Remembering that I’ll be soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death， only what is truly important
About a year ago I was with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die．I with that diagnosis all day． ，at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is with surgery．I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
wants to die．Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there And yet death is the destination we all ．No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of ．It is life"s change agent. It clears out the old to for the new．Right now the new is you, but someday not too from now，you will gradually become the old and be cleared away．Sorry to be so dramatic，but it is quite true．
Your time is ，so don’t waste it living someone else’s 1ife．Don’t be by dogma(教条) —which is living with the results of other people’s thinking．Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner ．And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart
| 小题1: | | A．impression | B．curse | C．decision | D．joke |
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| 小题2: | | A．seen | B．looked | C．found | D．1ost |
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| 小题3: | | A．would | B．should | C．might | D．could |
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| 小题4: | | A．hurry | B．1ine | C．moment | D．row |
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| 小题5: | | A．successful | B．rich | C．dead | D．frustrated |
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| 小题6: | | A．apologies | B．fortune | C．impressions | D．choices |
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| 小题7: | | A．proving | B．leaving | C．confirming | D．telling |
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| 小题8: | | A．diagnosed | B．cured | C．treated | D．round |
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| 小题11: | | A．However | B．But | C．Therefore | D．So |
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| 小题12: | | A．incurable | B．curable | C．fatal | D．changeable |
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| 小题13: | | A．Anyone | B．Someone | C．No one | D．Everyone |
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| 小题14: | | A．want | B．avoid | C．share | D．escape |
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| 小题15: | | A．destination | B．1ife | C．science | D．disease |
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| 小题16: | | A．make up | B．make for | C．make our | D．make way |
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| 小题17: | | A．distant | B．short | C．long | D．away |
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| 小题18: | | A．1imited | B．rare | C．enough | D．1ost |
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| 小题19: | | A．wasted | B．cheated | C．excited | D．trapped |
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| 小题20: | | A．voice | B．love | C．direction | D．confusion |
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小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:C
小题6:D
小题7:B
小题8:A
小题9:C
小题10:D
小题11:A
小题12:B
小题13:C
小题14:C
小题15:B
小题16:D
小题17:C
小题18:A
小题19:D
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试题分析：这是一篇苹果CEO乔布斯在斯坦福大学的演讲稿，主要内容是：乔布斯认为“记住你即将死去”是他一生中遇到的最重要箴言。
小题1:考查名词辨析：A. impression印象，B. curse诅咒，咒语，C. decision决定，D. joke玩笑，根据and since then, for the past 33 years，I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life，可知在我十七岁的时候，读到的这句话，给我们留下了深刻的印象。选A
小题2:考查动词辨析：A. seen 看见，B. looked看，C. found发现，D. 1ost失去，根据in the mirror every morning and asked myself，可知我每天早上在镜子中看到自己，并且问自己，选B
小题3:考查情态动词辨析：A. would将会，B. should应该，C. might可能，D. could能够，从那时开始,过了33年,我在每天早晨都会对着镜子问自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天, 你会不会完成你今天想做的事情呢？这里用would表示虚拟语气，选A
小题4:考查名词辨析：A. hurry匆忙，B. 1ine线，列，C. moment时刻，D. row排，每当答案连续多日都是“不会”的时候，我知道我该做些改变了。in a row意为连续不断地。选D
小题5:考查形容词 ：A. successful成功的，B. rich富有的，C. dead死了的，D. frustrated挫败的，提醒自己我即将死去，是帮我做出人生中许多重大抉择的最重要的工具。选C
小题6:考查名词辨析：A. Apologies道歉，B. Fortune幸运，财产，C. Impressions印象，D. Choices选择，“记住你即将死去”是我一生中遇到的最重要箴言。它帮我指明了生命中重要的选择。故选D
小题7:考查动词辨析：A. Proving证明，B. Leaving离开，留下，C. Confirming证实，D. Telling告诉，我看到的是留下的真正重要的东西，故选B
小题8:考查动词辨析：A. Diagnosed诊断，B. Cured治愈， C. treated治疗， D. Found发现，大概一年以前, 我被诊断出癌症，故选C diagnose 诊断。选A
小题9:考查介词辨析：A. On在...上面，B. for为了，C. in 在...里面，D. At在...地方，in order妥当的，有序的。医生劝我回家，安排后事，这是医生让病人等死的婉言。选C
小题10:考查动词辨析：A. Met遇到，B. Got得到，C. Did做，D. 1ived生活，.live with接受或容忍某现象。此句意为诊断结果让我想了一整天。选D
小题11:考查副词辨析：A. However然而，B. But但是， C. Therefore因此，D. So所以，根据at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is curable with surgery，可知表示转折，选A
小题12:考查形容词辨析： A. Incurable不可治愈的，B. Curable可治愈的，C. Fatal致命的， D. Changeable可以改变的，从后句可知，作者患得是一种非常罕见的、可以用手术治愈的癌症，后来治好了选B
小题13:考查代词：A. Anyone任何人，B. Someone一些人，C. No one 没有人，D. Everyone每个人，根据Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.可知没有人愿意死, 即使人们想上天堂, 人们也不会为了去那里而死，故选C
小题14:考查动词辨析：A. Want想要，B. Avoid避免，C. share 分享，共有，D. Escape逃离，.但是死亡是我们每个人共同的归宿，无人幸免。选C
小题15:考查名词辨析： A. Destination目的地，B. 1ife生活，C. Science科学，D. Disease疾病，结合下文It is life"s change agent.可知因为死亡就是生命中最好的一个发明，选B
小题16:考查动词短语辨析：A. make up组成，化妆，编造，合好， B. make for 前往，有助于，C. make out辨认出， D. make way（for sb）让某人通过，给某人让路。此句意为死亡破旧立新，选D
小题17:考查形容词辨析：A. Distant遥远的，B. Short短的，C. Long长的，D. Away远，你们现在是新人，但是不久的将来，你们会慢慢变老.然后被清除掉。选C
小题18:考查动词辨析：A. 1imited有限的，B. Rare罕见的，C. Enough足够的，D. 1ost失去的，根据so don’t waste it living someone else’s 1ife．可知你们的时间很有限, 所以不要将他们浪费在重复其他人的生活上，故选A
小题19:考查动词辨析：A. wasted 浪费，B. Cheated欺骗，C. Excited使兴奋，D. Trapped围困，根据which is living with the results of other people’s thinking可知不要被教条束缚,那意味着你和其他人思考的结果一起生活，选D
小题20:考查名词辨析：A. Voice声音，B. Love爱，C. Direction方向，D. Confusion困惑，根据And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart.可知不要被其他人喧嚣的观点掩盖你真正的内心的声音。还有最重要的是, 你要有勇气去听从你直觉和心灵的指示，故选A |
核心考点
试题【When I was 17，I read a quote that went something like：“If you live each day as i】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
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The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, and pain-free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably(不可避免的) brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment (义务), self - improvement.
Ask a bachelor(单身汉) why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three - day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates （解放）money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
小题1:According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because _______ .| A．he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities | | B．he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single | | C．he finds more fun in dating than in marriage | | D．he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement |
小题2:From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from ________ .| A．hatred | B．misunderstanding | C．prejudice | D．ignorance |
小题3:What is the author trying to tell us?| A．Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain. | | B．One must know how to attain happiness. | | C．It is important to make commitments. | | D．It is pain that leads to happiness. |
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I learned all about taking responsibility from my mother’s tough love. My mom had a wonderful way of helping you up and realize that your life is going to be what you make it.
She had this circular way of you took responsibility for your decisions and the person you would . She would say,“ It" s your .” “What you want and what you get are sometimes two different things.” And then, “No one ever said life was fair.” And she would these comments together in such a way that you could never an argument, and yet, the was that you realized your life is going to be what you make it.
So I might go to my mom and say, “I’d like to football”. And she would say, “Well, it"s your life. If you want to go out there and get and hurt and break your knees and limp around the rest of your life, that" s fine.” That is I would say, “Well, you know, that won’t . I" m really fast.” And she would reply, “Well, we don’t really have the money.” And then I would , “Yes but that" s not fair.” And she would reply, “ Well, life isn’t .” Then I would say, “But I’ve been itching to." And she would reply, “Yes, but what you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”
It was the combination of these that allowed my mother to lead me down the right path under her but let me feel as if I was making the decisions my own. The sum total of that was, in the end, you’re for the life you lead. That" s the best advice I’ve ever gotten.
| 小题1: | | A．light | B．open | C．grow | D．keep |
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| 小题2: | | A．promising | B．ensuring | C．ignoring | D．noticing |
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| 小题3: | | A．protect | B．envy | C．refuse | D．become |
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| 小题4: | | A．fault | B．life | C．progress | D．turn |
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| 小题5: | | A．Then | B．But | C．Now | D．However |
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| 小题6: | | A．increasingly | B．approximately | C．completely | D．occasionally |
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| 小题7: | | A．combine | B．remind | C．answer | D．publish |
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| 小题8: | | A．lose | B．doubt | C．win | D．raise |
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| 小题9: | | A．belief | B．reason | C．mistake | D．result |
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| 小题11: | | A．beaten up | B．dressed up | C．divided | D．closed up |
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| 小题13: | | A．fail | B．work | C．last | D．happen |
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| 小题15: | | A．fair | B．cosy | C．hard | D．special |
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| 小题16: | | A．comments | B．descriptions | C．techniques | D．messages |
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| 小题17: | | A．temper | B．influence | C．activity | D．success |
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| 小题19: | | A．mind | B．account | C．deal | D．advice |
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| 小题20: | | A．famous | B．responsible | C．sorry | D．thankful |
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I was blind, but I was ashamed of it if it was known. I refused to use a white stick and hated asking for help. After all, I was a teenager girl, and I couldn"t bear people to look at me and think I was not like them. I must have been a terrible danger on the roads, coming across me wandering through the traffic; motorists probably would have to step rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there were all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.
One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something. "I"m awfully sorry," I said and stepped forward only to run into it again. When it happened a third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a lamppost. This was just one of the stupid things that constantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop, which was a request stop, where the bus wouldn"t stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off. No one else was there and I had to try to guess if the bus had arrived.
Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help, I tried to guess at the sound. Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.
But on this particular evening no one joined me at the stop; it seemed that everyone had suddenly decided not to travel by bus. Of course I heard plenty of buses pass, or I thought I did. But because I had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself, I let them all go by. I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one. Then I gave up. I decided to walk on to the next stop.
小题1:The girl refused to ask for help because she thought_________ | A．she might be recognized | | B．asking for help looked silly | | C．she was normal and independent | | D．being found blind was embarrassing |
小题2:After the girl got off the bus that evening, she_________.| A．began to run | | B．hit a person as usual | | C．hit a lamppost by accident | | D．was caught by something |
小题3:At the request stop that evening, the girl___________.| A．stopped a big lorry | | B．stopped the wrong bus | | C．made no attempt to stop the bus | | D．was not noticed by other people |
小题4:What was the problem with guessing at the sound to stop a bus? _________| A．Other vehicles also stopped there. | | B．It was unreliable for making judgments. | | C．More lorries than buses responded to the girl. | | D．It took too much time for the girl to catch the bus |
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It was already late when we set out for the next town, according to the map was about fifteen miles away on the other side of the
There we felt that we would find a bed the night. Darkness fell soon after we left the village, but luckily we met as we drove fast along the narrow winding road that the hills. As we climbed , it became colder and rain began to fall, it difficult at times to see the road. I asked John, my companion, to drive more .
After we had traveled for about twenty miles, there was still no sign of the town which was on the map. We were beginning to get . Then without warning the car stopped. A quick showed that we had run out of petrol. Although we had little food with us, we decided to the night in the car.
Our meal was soon over. I tried to go to sleep at once, John, who was a sleeper, got out of the car after a few minutes and went for a walk the hills. Soon he came back. From the top of the hill he had seen, in the valley below, the of the town we were looking for. We at once unloaded all our luggage and with a great effort, to push the car to the top of the hill. Then we went back to the luggage, loaded the car again and set off down the hill. less than a quarter of an hour we were in the town, where we found a quite easily.
| 小题2: | | A．rivers | B．villages | C．towns | D．hills |
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| 小题3: | | A．surprised | B．sure | C．pleased | D．afraid |
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| 小题5: | | A．everybody | B．somebody | C．nobody | D．anybody |
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| 小题6: | | A．got to | B．arrived | C．led to | D．belonged to |
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| 小题7: | | A．taller | B．faster | C．lower | D．higher |
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| 小题8: | | A．getting | B．thinking | C．causing | D．making |
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| 小题9: | | A．certainly | B．slowly | C．carefully | D．surely |
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| 小题10: | | A．set | B．marked | C．built | D．drawn |
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| 小题11: | | A．worried | B．excited | C．cold | D．warm |
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| 小题12: | | A．attention | B．operation | C．examination | D．information |
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| 小题13: | | A．live | B．spend | C．spare | D．stay |
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| 小题15: | | A．poor | B．fast | C．quick | D．heavy |
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| 小题16: | | A．across | B．through | C．down | D．up |
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| 小题17: | | A．map | B．lights | C．bus | D．situation |
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| 小题18: | | A．ought | B．tried | C．managed | D．succeeded |
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| 小题20: | | A．hotel | B．friend | C．policeman | D．cinema |
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Every fast-food employee knows that the drive-through window is the worst position. The window sticks with constant ice; the roar of engines hurts your ; your words are lost in the howling wind.
On a afternoon, everything changed.
Every once in a while, the sub-zero temperatures seal a windows shut. Drivers don’t exactly enjoy having to stand outside in the cold, their orders into a speaker box, when they expect to drive through on their heated leather seats. In such cases, most customers tend to show their annoyance to the employees.
This woman was .
“I’ll get the next car’s as well,” she said as she came up to the window to pay. She stood outside, much snow on her hair. Though she was obviously freezing, her bright lit up her face like a fire.
“You can’t their drinks,” I said, confused and tired.
“No, but I’ll buy them,” she said. “Pay it forward and all that.”
Completely puzzled, I charged her as , and when the next customer arrived at the window I explained what had just happened. I watched as his changed — first angry to be out in the cold, then at the random act of kindness, and finally, delighted by his .
“I suppose I’ll pay for the next order then,” he replied, nodding and waving at the impatient driver him. He over the cash and received his pre-paid hot drink.
The trend continued. Customers arrived annoyed, only to leave and pleased. Some were shocked to spend much more than they had expected, others ended up receiving their order for less than half the price.
Five vehicles passed, then ten, then twenty. No one refused to pay. Customers stood at my window a fist-full of change to buy drinks for a complete stranger. Cars drove off, honking (鸣笛) and their thanks.
It only takes one customer, one person, to change the entire of traffic. It only takes one moment, one smile, to warm up even the coldest of days.
| 小题1: | | A．ears | B．hands | C．feet | D．back |
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| 小题2: | | A．freezing | B．sunny | C．warm | D．usual |
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| 小题3: | | A．truck’s | B．vehicle’s | C．car’s | D．lorry’s |
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| 小题4: | | A．offering | B．throwing | C．screaming | D．cancelling |
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| 小题5: | | A．polite | B．angry | C．popular | D．different |
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| 小题6: | | A．number | B．coffee | C．fee | D．order |
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| 小题7: | | A．covering | B．increasing | C．gathering | D．falling |
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| 小题8: | | A．eyes | B．smile | C．hair | D．annoyance |
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| 小题10: | | A．instructed | B．requested | C．directed | D．suggested |
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| 小题11: | | A．gesture | B．expression | C．figure | D．feeling |
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| 小题12: | | A．inspired | B．upset | C．surprised | D．disappointed |
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| 小题13: | | A．turn | B．sense | C．deed | D．luck |
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| 小题14: | | A．beyond | B．before | C．beside | D．behind |
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| 小题15: | | A．took | B．looked | C．handed | D．thought |
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| 小题16: | | A．shy | B．calm | C．anxious | D．regretful |
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| 小题17: | | A．while | B．since | C．as | D．unless |
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| 小题18: | | A．making | B．emptying | C．lying | D．holding |
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| 小题19: | | A．explaining | B．sending | C．introducing | D．casting |
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