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 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 (空閑), it is 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, 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．By working and social experience
B．Learning from her friends.
C．Through an unfortunate experience.
D．Because of her children and husband.
小題3:The underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph probably means ______.
A．it is so easy to keep alive but not to live a real life
B．it is very hard to live a real life
C．it is more difficult to exist than to live a happy life
D．it is so easy to make a living
小題4:What is the author’s attitude toward work?
A．Do it well to serve others.
B．To 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5:It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A．the author is a success in personal life
B．the author didn’t try her best to work well
C．the author spent all her time caring for her children
D．the author likes traveling very much

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:D
小題5:A

試題分析：本文講述了什么是真正的生活。真正的生活就是按照自己的內(nèi)心去生活，不要受到其它任何東西的影響，愛自己該愛的人，過自己想要的生活。
小題1:B 主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章第三段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.說明她這次演講的主題就是過一種真實(shí)的生活。故B正確。
小題2:C 推理題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段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. 說明我是從過去的那場(chǎng)不好的經(jīng)歷中得到的這次的教訓(xùn)，故C正確。
小題3:A 推理題。根據(jù)It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live.字面意思：存在而不是或者是如此的容易。故說明活著很容易，但是要想過著自己想要的生活是不容易的。A正確。
小題4:D 推理題。根據(jù)文章第一段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.和第四段And remember that love is not leisure (空閑), it is 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.說明要把工作當(dāng)成生活的一部分，但是不要受到工作的影響，故D正確。
小題5:A 推斷題。根據(jù)文章第一段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.和最后一段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.說明作者在生活中很成功。故A正確。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文告訴我們真正的生活就是按照自己的內(nèi)心去生活，測(cè)試考生在閱讀基礎(chǔ)上的邏輯推理能力，要求考生根據(jù)文章所述事件的邏輯關(guān)系，對(duì)未說明的趨勢(shì)或結(jié)局作出合理的推斷；或根據(jù)作者所闡述的觀點(diǎn)理論，對(duì)文章未涉及的現(xiàn)象、事例給以解釋�？忌紫纫屑�(xì)閱讀短文，完整了解信息，準(zhǔn)確把握作者觀點(diǎn)。
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科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

He says the problem with teachers is, “What will a kid learn from someone who chose to become a teacher?” He reminds the other dinner guests that it’s true what they say about teachers: Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.
I decide to bite my tongue instead of biting his and stop myself from reminding the other dinner guests that it’s also true what they say about lawyers－that they make money from the misfortune of others.
“I mean, you’re a teacher, Taylor,” he says to me.” Be honest. What do you make?”
I wish he hadn’t asked me to be honest, because now I have to teach him a lesson.
You want to know what I make?
I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.
I can make a C+feel like a great achievement and an A-feel like a failure.
How dare you waste my time with anything less than your very best?
I make parents tremble in fear when I call them:
I hope I haven’t called at a bad time.
I just wanted to talk to you about something Billy said today.
Billy said, “Leave the kid alone. I still cry sometimes, don’t you?”
And it was the bravest act I have ever seen.
I make parents see their children for who they are and what they can be.
You want to know what I make?
I make kids wonder.
I make them question.
I make them criticise.
I make them think.
I make them apologise and mean it.
I make them write, write, write.
And then I make them read.
I teach them to solve math problems that they once thought impossible.
I make them understand that if you have brains then you follow your heart and if someone ever tries to judge you by what you make, you teach them a lesson.
Let me make this simple for you, so you know what I say is true:
I make a great difference! What about you?
小題1:What is the tone of the passage?
A．Upset and disappointed.B．Cheerful and positive.
C．Angry and proud.D．Humorous and light-hearted.
小題2:What do we know about the man that the author is speaking to?
A．He dislikes lawyers.B．He is actually a lawyer.
C．He is respectful to teachers.D．He is in the author’s home.
小題3:What’s the best title of this passage?
A．Requirements of a Good TeacherB．An Argument Between Two Guests.
C．A Dinner ConversationD．What Teachers Make
小題4:The underlined phrase “bite my tongue” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to       .
A．stop myself saying what I really thinkB．say something that is wrong
C．speak out honestly but carelesslyD．keep silent about myself

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