(2013·东北三省四市联合诊断考试)I had a bad habit of skipping to the last pages of a book.I just wanted to see how it ended ____ I was still in the middle of it. This habit ____ first my mom，then my friends, and ____ even my own daughter. Often my ____ wouldn't be limited just to the books I read but also to what others were ____ as well.Then one day my daughter told me in anger, “Dad, please just read a book one ___ at a time like everyone else！” At times I didn't ___ this bad habit to just books either.I also tried to skip ahead in my own life and ____ out what to do months and even years from now ____ enjoying each day at present. Although I knew that the ____ of my life wasn't done yet and that I had many pages ___ to go, I still couldn't control my burning desire to write the ____ of it halfway through.Time and again, I would ____ jump ahead and try to solve every potential problem before it happened. Life，____，doesn't work like that.It loves to ____ us，and you never know what new problems, changes, or opportunities each new day will ____. Recently when I found myself living in the ____ again，I felt a voice that gently told me I needed to “live one day at a time”. When I heard those words, I ____，turned the book of my life back to the ____ page, and thanked God for today. Each of us has to ____ the book of life line by line，moment by moment and trust that our story will be brought to its perfect end.
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小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:B
小题6:A
小题7:D
小题8:B
小题9:C
小题10:A
小题11:B
小题12:C
小题13:C
小题14:D
小题15:A
小题16:B
小题17:B
小题18:D
小题19:D
小题20:A
本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。作者通过讲述自己的经历让我们明白：每个人都应该过好当下的每一天，一行一行地谱写人生这本书。
小题1:解析 根据上文“I had a bad habit of skipping to the last pages of a book.”可推知，当一本书读到一半时，作者就想要知道结局是怎么样的。while“在……期间，当……的时候”，符合语境。答案 C
小题2:解析 根据下文“Then one day my daughter told me in anger”可知，作者的这个坏习惯激怒了(annoyed)很多人。答案 B
小题3:解析 根据上文提到“first...then...”可知，作者最后(finally)甚至惹恼了自己的女儿。答案 D
小题4:解析 作者的“没耐心”不但表现在自己看书上，而且对别人读的书也是如此。答案 A
小题5:解析 参见上题解析。答案 B
小题6:解析 根据倒数第二段中的“‘live one day at a time'”及最后一段中的“Each of us has to __20__ the book of life line by line”可知，女儿希望父亲看书时能像别人一样一页一页地看下去。答案 A
小题7:解析 根据下文中的“I also tried to skip ahead in my own life”可知，作者的坏习惯不只局限(limit)在看书方面，也体现在他的生活上。故选D项。答案 D
小题8:解析 作者在生活中喜欢跳跃前进，总是试图搞清楚从现在起未来几个月甚至几年之后要做的事情，而不是享受现在的每一天，故选B。figure out“弄懂，搞清楚”。答案 B
小题9:解析 参见上题解析。instead of“代替，而不是”。答案 C
小题10:解析 根据空后的“that I had many pages __11__ to go”可知，这里作者将生活比作了一本书。答案 A
小题11:解析 作者人生的这本书还没写完，还“剩下”很多页要写。答案 B
小题12:解析 根据前文可知，作者在看书时总喜欢看到一半就想知道结尾，而对于自己人生的这本书，虽然还没有写完，但作者已迫不及待想要写出结局。故选C项。答案 C
小题13: 解析 根据下文“Life，__14__，doesn't work like that.”可推知，作者总是在每一个潜在的问题还没发生时就尝试解决它，所以这是愚蠢的。答案 C
小题14: 解析 该空承接上文，表示转折，“然而，生活并不像我们想象的那样运转”，故选D项。答案 D
小题15:解析 从下文中的“you never know what new problems，changes or opportunities each new day will __16__”可知，生活总是使我们感到很惊讶。答案 A
小题16: 解析 生活中的每个新的一天总会给我们带来(bring)不同的问题、改变和机会。 答案 B
小题17:解析 根据上文，作者在生活中总是想要搞清楚未来几个月甚至几年的事情，即生活在“未来”，由此可推断答案为B。答案 B
小题18:解析 此时作者已经明白了生活要一天天地过，所以他释然地笑了。答案 D
小题19:解析 当内心的声音提醒作者要过好每一天时，他把他人生的这本书翻回到正确的(right)那一页。答案 D
小题20:解析 根据上文中的“to write the __12__ of it halfway through”可知答案。答案 A