It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care. Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence have been to face the aggressors (挑衅者)，and to lay down my life for those in my care? How many people would want me back for Christmas? It's a serious thought, one to give me pause.

　　I pray silently, sometimes, in the dead of night, that ancient cry of a poet "Deliver my soul from the sword (剑), and my darling from the power of the dog." Yet I know the death comes to us all, and sometimes comes suddenly. We must therefore plan to live forever, but live as if we will die tomorrow. We live on, I'm sure, in the lives of those we loved, and therefore we ought to have a care for what they will remember and what they will treasure. If more parents knew this in their hearts to be true, there might be fewer knives on our streets today.

　　71. According to the whole text we can see that the first paragraph _________.

　　A. puts forward the subject of the text

　　B. shows the author's pity on the kid

　　C. acts as an introduction to the discussion

　　D. makes a clear statement of the author's views

　　72. In the second paragraph the author mainly wants to explain to us _________.

　　A. how much he misses his parents now

　　B. why his parents often appear in his dream

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