2017年高一英语 阅读理解专项训练 Week Nine生活哲理.docVIP

Week Nine 生活哲理 一、阅读理解（共20小题；共40.0分） A Frederick Buechner talks about looking back at high school years. He remembered what all his classmates hoped and dreamed of becoming. In my class, as at any school, he says, there were students who had a real talent for something. Maybe it was for writing or acting or sports. Maybe it was an interest and a joy in working with people. Sometimes it was just their capacity for being so alive that made you more alive to be with them. Yet now, a good many years later, I have the feeling that more than just a few of them are spending their lives at work in which none of these gifts is being used. Matt Lamb could have been one of those people. Until 1987, Matt owned and ran his own restaurant in Chicago. But that year, a doctor told Matt that he had a fatal disease. So he closed the restaurant and pursued his true passion, painting. Soon, Matts art drew national attention. He became quite successful. Only after Matt had found success in his dream career did doctors discover that they had misdiagnosed him. He wasnt going to die after all. A misdiagnosis(误诊) may have saved him from a life of meaninglessness. Not that owning ones own small business is in any way unworthy, but it simply was not Matts true passion. In his heart, he wanted to paint, and he would never be truly happy until he pursued that dream, wherever it finally led him. Those beautiful dreams we have for the rest of our lives too often dont materialize. And, again too often, we look back dissatisfied with the direction we took or the place we finally reached. You dont get to choose how youre going to die or when. You can only decide how youre going to live. That decision is too important to put off another day. 1. We can infer from what Frederick says that ?. A. most people dont use their gifts B. every student has a gift for something C. you are alive when working with people