2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选测试题北师大版选修八Unit 23 B卷_高考复习指南

2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选测试题北师大版选修八Unit 23 B卷

　　北师大版选修八Unit 23 B卷

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　　(2017·东北三校第一次联考)This is my third story. When I was 17, I read a quote that __1__something like, “If you live each day__2__it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.” Since then, for the past thirtythree years, I've looked __3__the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today？” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a __4__， I know I need to change something.

　　About a year ago I was __5__with cancer. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should __6__ to live no longer than three to six months. They advised me to go home and get my __7__in order, which is doctors' code for “prepare to __8__”．Later that evening when the doctors __9__the cells taken from my pancreas (胰腺) under a microscope, they started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is __10__with surgery. I had the surgery and, __11__， I'm fine now.

　　This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Death is the __12__we all share. No one has __13__escaped it. And that is __14__it should be, because death is very likely the single __15__invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make __16__for the new. Your time is __17__， so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma (信条) — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of __18__opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to __19__your heart and intuition(直觉). They __20__already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.