2014届高考英语二轮阅读理解精英训练精品题：16.docVIP

2014高考英语二轮阅读理解精英训练精品题（16）及答案 高考英语冲刺阅读理解专项-----A The sun shone in through the dining room window, lighting up the hardwood floor. We had been talking there for nearly two hours. The phone of the“Nightline”rang yet again and Morrie asked his helper．Connie，to get it. She had been taking down the callers抧ames in Morriee’s small black appointment book. It was clear I was not the only one interested in visiting my old professor梩he揘ightline攁ppearance had made him something of a big figure梑ut I was impressed with, perhaps even a bit envious of, all the friends that Morrie seemed to have. “You know, Mitch, now that Im dying, Ive become much more interesting to people．I’m on the last great journey here—and people want me to tell them what to pack．” The phone rang again． “Morrie，can you talk?”Connie asked. “I’m visiting with my old friend now，”he announced．“Let them call back．” I cannot tell you why he received me so warmly. I was hardly the promising student who had left him sixteen years earlier．Had it not been for“Nightline，”Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again． What happened to me? The eighties happened. The nineties happened．Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it. Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if Id simply been on a long vacation. “Have you found someone to share your heart with?” he asked. “Are you at peace with yourself?” “Are you trying to be as human as you can be?” I felt ashamed, wanting to show I had been trying hard to work out such questions．What happened to me? I once promised myself I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, and that I would live in bea