阅读理解
I am a good mother to three children.I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being
a good parent.
I no longer consider myself the center of the universe.I show up.I listen.I try to laugh.I am a good
friend to my husband.I have tried to make marriage vows(誓约) mean what they say.I am a good friend
to my friends, and they to me.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 a desire of the next promotion(提升),
the bigger paycheck and the larger house.
Get a life in which you are not alone.Find people you love, and who love you.And remember that love
is not leisure(休闲) but work.Pick up the phone.Send an email.Write a letter.And realize that life is the
best thing and that you have 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 of
living.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 I learned from it is
what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination.I learned to look at all the good in 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
telling others what I had learned.
By telling them this:read in the backyard with the sun on your face.Learn to be happy.And think of life
as 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 social experience.
B. By learning from her friends.
C. Through an unfortunate experience.
D. From her children and husband.
3. By the underlined sentence "It is so easy to exist instead of living." in the fifth paragraph, the author
really means that people tend to________.
A. make a living rather than live a real life
B. work rather than enjoy life
C. waste a lot in life
D. forget the most important lesson in life
4. It can be inferred from the passage that________.
A. the author is a success in personal life
B. the author doesn't try her best to work well
C. the author spends all her time caring for her children
D. the author likes traveling very much
