2014届高考英语二轮专题训练：完形填空7.docVIP

2014届高考英语二轮专题训练：完形填空7 (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 thirty－three 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 1．A.said　　　　　　　　B．described C．went D．expressed 2．A.unless B．as if C．even if D．as long as 3．A.in B．at C．through D．on 4．A.row B．minute C．sense D．word 5．A.connected B．infected[ C．affected D．diagnosed 6．A.want B．dream C．expect D．imagine 7．A.duties B．businesses C．affairs D．life 8．A.work B．start[ C．talk D．die 9．A.looked B．viewed C．realized D．noticed 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 voi