I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession st

I am a good mother to three children. I have triednever to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

I no longer consider myself the center of theuniverse. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to myhusband. I have tried to make marriage vows(誓约) mean whatthey say. I am a good friend to my friends，and they tome. Without them，there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here’s what I want to tell you today：get a life. A real life，not adesire of the next promotion(提升)，the bigger paycheck and the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people youlove，and who love you. And remember that love isnot leisure(休闲) but work. Pick up the phone. Send ane­mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that youhave no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to waste our lives，our days，our hours，and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead ofliving. I learned to live many years ago. Something really，really bad happened to me，something that changed my life. If I had my choice，it would never have been changed at all. And what Ilearned from it is what，today，seems to bethe hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey，not the destination. I learned to look at all the goodin the world and tried to give some of it back because I believed in it，completely and totally. And I tried to do that，in part，by tellingothers what I had learned.

By telling them this：readin the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of lifeas a deadly illness，because if you do，you will live with joy and passion(激情) as it ought to be lived.

1.The best title of this passage probably is“________”．

A．Love Your Friends                                             B．Live a Real Life

C．Don’t Waste Time                                              D．Be a Good Mother and Wife

2.How did the author form her view of life?

A．Through socialexperience.

B．By learning from herfriends.

C．Through an unfortunateexperience. 

D．From her children andhusband.

3.By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to existinstead of living.” in the fifth paragraph，the authorreally means that people tend to________.

A．make a living rather thanlive a real life

B．work rather than enjoylife

C．waste a lot in life

D．forget the most importantlesson in life

4.It can be inferred from the passage that________.

A．the author is a successin personal life

B．the author doesn’t tryher best to work well

C．the author spends all hertime caring for her children

D．the author likestraveling very much

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【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.A

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