2019高考英语二轮练习完形填空每天一练(08)(解析).doc

2019高考英语二轮练习完形填空每天一练（08）（解析） (2011年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 inn