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  限时能力检测 一、 完形填空(2013·珠海实验学校高三考试) A philosophy professor loved to teach students about important theories of the subject. Once, while his 1 was about to begin, he just closed the book and instead stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. Students were curious but the professor without looking at them picked up a very large and empty jar. And then he started to 2 it with small rocks. Instantly the jar appeared full, the professor asked his students whether the jar was full. The entire class 3 that jar was indeed full. Next, the professor picked up some 4 and began pouring them into the jar. The moment pouring was 5 , he shook the jar lightly. As a result of that, all the small pebbles(鹅卵石) rolled into the open areas between the rocks comfortably. Professor again asked the students if the jar was full. Same 6 from the class like before. Professor 7 a bit but silently, and this time he picked up a box of 8 . He poured the box into the jar and sand filled the entire 9 spaces. At the same time, professor 10 his question to the class, if the jar was full? Yes again. Professor now 11 towards the class and said, this jar 12 your life. All the things in the jar I poured mean some important lessons. The rocks are the most important things, that is family, your partner, health and your 13 . Even if everything else in your life goes away but the rocks remain there, your life would still be full because the most important things are still present in your life. Pebbles represent other significant things     like car, house and job, etc. And the sand is the small stuff or everything else. If your time and 14 is spent on small stuff then there is no 15 for the rocks or the p