Question

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 show up. 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.

1.The best title of this passage probably is________.

A．Love your friends                       B．Live a real life

C．Don't waste time                        D．Be a good mother and wife

2.The underlined sentence "It is so easy to exist instead of to live" in the fifth paragraph probably has the same meaning as________.

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 so easy to make a living

D．it is more difficult to exist than to live a happy life

3.What's 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.

4.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

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.A

3.D

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文論述了作者認為一個真正的生活,而不是欲望的未來晉升(提升),更大的薪水和更大的房子。作者的人生觀是要快樂的生活。

1.標題歸納題。根據綜觀全文可知本文主要談及的是過一種實實在在的生活，故選B。

2.細節理解題。本句意為：生存容易，過真正的生活并不容易。在作者看來，人們往往只顧謀生而活著，并非過著真正的生活。故選A。

3.細節理解題。根據第一段I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent（我從不讓工作影響自己做一個好母親），可知選D。

4.推理判斷題。根據全文尤其是第二段可知，作者在個人生活方面是一個成功者。B、C兩項所述與原文不符；作者熱愛生活這一旅程，并非指普通意義上的旅程，故D項錯。故選A。

考點：人生百味類短文閱讀。

點評：標題是文章中心思想的精煉表達，多為詞組或短語，涵蓋性強。做這類題目時，要在閱讀全文的基礎上，以文章話題為核心，通過比較選項的概括性或 覆蓋面，得出正確的標題。正確標題的歸納范圍要恰如其分，避免過于具體或斷章取義。錯誤的干擾往往是局部信息，以事實細節替代概括大意。