When I was 17，I read a quote that went something like：“If you live each day as if it were your last，someday you’11 most certainly be right．”It made a deep 36 on me．and since then。for the past 33 years，I have 37 in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life， 38 I want to do what I am about to do today?”And whenever the answer has been“No”for too many days in a 39 ，I know I need to change something．
Remembering that I’ll be 40 soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big 41 in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death， 42 only what is truly important
About a year ago I was 43 with cancer My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs 44 order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die．I 45 with that diagnosis all day． 46 ，at last an advanced test showed that i。。t was a very rare cancer that is 47 with surgery．I had the surgery and I’m fine now
48 wants to die．Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there And yet death is the destination we all 49 ．No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of 50 ．It is life's change agent It clears out the old to 51 for the new．Right now the new is you．but someday not too 52 from n6w，you will．gradually’become the old and be cleared away．Sorry to be so dramatic，but it is quite true．
Your time is 53 ，so don’t waste it living，someone else’s 1ife．Don’t be 54 by dogma（教条） —which is living with the results of other people’s thinking．Don’t let the noise of others’opinions drown out your own inner 55 ．And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart
36．A．impression B．curse C． decision D．joke
37．A．seen B．looked C．found D．1ost
38．A．would B．should C．might D．could
39．A．hurry B．1ine C．moment D．row
40．A．successful B．rich C．dead D．frustrated
41．A．apologies B．fortune C．impressions D．choices
42．A．proving B．leaving C．confirming D．telling
43．A．diagnosed B．cured C．treated D．round
44．A．on B．for C． in D．at
45．A．met B．got C．did D．1ived
46．A．However B．But C．Therefore D．So
47．A．incurable B．curable C．fatal D．changeable
48．A．Anyone B．Someone C．No one D．Everyone
49．A．want B．avoid C．share D．escape
50．A．destination B．1ife C．science D．disease
51．A．make up B．make for C．make our D．make wav
52．A．distant B．short C．long D．away
53．A．1imited B．rare C．enough D．1ost
54．A．wasted B．cheated C．excited D．trapped
55．A．voice B．love C．direction D．confusion
36-40 ABADC 41-45 DBACD 46-50 ABCCB 51-55 DCADA
36．这句话给我留下了深刻的印象。
37．自那以后，在过去的33年中我每天早晨都会对着镜子问自己：“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天，我会去做今天打算做的那些事吗?”look in／into the mirror意为：对着镜子看。
38．此处是虚拟。
39．每当答案连续多日都是“不会”的时候，我知道我该做些改变了。in a row意为连续不断地。
40．提醒自己我即将死去，是帮我做出人生中许多重大抉择的最重要的工具。
41．make choices意为做出选择。
42．此处为结果状语。因为几乎所有的一切在死亡面前都会消失殆尽，留下的是真正重要的东西。
43．be diagnosed with．．．诊断出得……病。
44．in order妥当的，有序的。医生劝我回家，安排后事，这是医生让病人等死的婉言。
45．live with接受或容忍某现象。此句意为诊断结果让我想了一整天。
46．前后句为转折关系，however是副词。
47．从后句可知，作者患得是一种非常罕见的、可以用手术治愈的癌症，后来治好了
48．没有人愿意死，即使人们想上天堂，也不会为了去那里而死。
49．但是死亡是我们每个人共同的归宿，无人幸免。
50．从后句可知答案。死亡很可能是生命惟一最好的发明。它是生命变化更替的推动力。agent可指使某事发生的施动者。如：the agent of his own ruin他自我毁灭的根源。
51．make way（for sb）让某人通过，给某人让路。此句意为死亡破旧立新
52．你们现在是新人，但是不久的将来，你们会慢慢变老．然后被清除掉。
53．你们的时间很有限，所以不要把时间浪费在重复他人的生活上。
54．be trapped by／in sth．陷入困境，被……束缚。此句意为不要受教条的束缚，因为那就意味着你依据别人的思想在生活。
55．不要让他人喋喋不休的意见淹没掉你自己内心的声音。