专题10 Do you need a bucket list 你需要一份人生愿望清单吗？（答案版）（高考英语总复习）.docxVIP

备战2021年高考 英语外刊精读与练习 专题 10（答案版） Do you need a bucket list? 你需要一份人生愿望清单吗？ 语篇导读： 你是否一直想学跳探戈、变魔术或者跳伞？如果你有这样的一个愿望，也许你需要一份 “人生愿望清单”，列出你死亡前想做的所有事情。这样一份清单听起来很棒，但也有人指责它限制了人们的想象力，因为它鼓励人们追随他人对完美生活的看法。本文讨论是不是每个人都需要有一份愿望清单。 Step 1 Vocabulary词汇表 living life 生活 life is for living 活出精彩bucket list 人生愿望清单anxiety 焦虑experience 经历skydiving 跳伞运动comfort zone 舒适区to its limits 到……最大限度focus 专注的重点，中心take comfort 从……中得到安慰coping strategy 应对策略uncontrollable 无法控制的in favour of 支持，赞同spontaneous 自发的，本能的goal 目标impulsive 冲动的kick the bucket 死亡reach for the stars 追求难以实现的东西live for today 活在当下 Step 2 Reading and understanding ‘Life is for living’, according to the well-used expression: What we choose to do is up to us. That may not be completely true, but there is no harm in dreaming about what we’d like to achieve in our life. Many of us write a list of things we’d like to do before we die – often called a?bucket list. Bucket lists have been called ‘the greatest hits of your life’ and have helped some people overcome?anxiety?which would have stopped them following their dreams. ?Some of us may choose to write one to fill our life with exciting and new?experiences?– from?skydiving?to swimming with sharks – the list is unlimited. This is something the BBC radio programme All In The Mind has been looking at. It heard from a blogger called Annette White who said she made a promise to live her bucket list which “continuously pushes the?comfort zone?to its limits?and beyond it.” Such a list can be exciting and can indeed help you plan your life and give you?focus. When the BBC reporter Helen Fawkes knew she was suffering from incurable ovarian cancer, she?took comfort?in drawing up a bucket list -although she called it her ‘list for living’ because these were things for making the most of life. Sadly, she was not able to achieve all of her 50 things before she died at the age of 45. Creating a bucket list can certainly give us hope, but some people have argued it can be used as a?coping str