（2010•江苏模拟）
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 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 wanted to tell you today：Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion, the bigger pay-check…
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. 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 to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, and something that changed my life in ways that, 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 try 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 it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.
1. It can be inferred from the passage that_____.
A. the author is a success in personal life
B. the author didn’t try her best to work well
C. the author spent all her time caring for her children
D. the author likes traveling very much
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 to live” 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 lessons in life
4. What’s the author’s attitude towards work?
A. Do it well to serve others.
B. Earn enough money to make life better.
C. Try your best to get higher position and pay.
D. Don’t let it affect your real life.
（2010•贵州模拟）完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When Nancy Lubin got $5,000 from her great-grandfather, she never once considered taking a vacation or paying off student loans with it. 36 , the 24-year-old New York University law student began thinking about the clothing 37 faced by the typical low-income woman：“If she goes for a job interview 38 dressed, she won’t get the job.” Lubin says，“But without a job, she can’t 39 good clothing.”
A few weeks later, Lubin 40 Dress for Success and began searching for clothing and volunteers. She asked women to donate（捐献）used business clothes that were 41 in good condition. She asked members of diet centres to give away clothes that no longer 42. At first Lubin stored the clothes in her one-bedroom apartment. Finally she found 43 in a Greenwich Village church basement（地下室）,which now 44 as the organization’s main office.
Today, when women arrive at shelters and job training programmes—they 45 a suit, shoes, a bag, stockings and jewllery, and self-confidence as well. Some are trying to enter the work 46 after being on welfare（福利）for years.
_47 Dress for Seccess helped its first client a year and a half ago, more than 1,000 women have received suits—and many have been given 48 . Yarit Polanco was rencently hired 49 a law-firm office manager. “Because of Dress for Success, I made a good 50 ,”she says.
Donations are now 51 in, including jewellery，6,000 pairs of trousers and 40,000 worth of handbags. Broadcast journalists have given suits. And Lubin, who has put her 52 on hold is opening Dress for Success 53 in other cities.
“So many women have clothes lying around that they’ll never 54 again,”says a volunteer. “Nancy’s _55__ is so simple, yet so important to the women who benefit from it.”
36. A. Anyway B. Instead C. Fortunately D. Meanwhile
1.A. situation B. shops C. pollution D. position
2.A. particularly B. easily C. beautifully D. poorly
3.A. make B. find C. wear D. afford
4. A. reached B. called C. founded D. built
5. A. only B. already C. almost D. still
6. A. demand B. remain C. fit D. need
7.A. space B. support C. tailors D. methods
8. A. regards B. serves C. looks D. lies
9.A. buy B. sell C. receive D. watch
10.A. office B. industry C. wealth D. force
11. A. When B. Once C. Although D. Since
12.A. trousers B. jewels C. jobs D. success
13.A. as B. for C. to D. into
14. A. impression B. work C. place D. progress
15. A. giving B. pouring C. showing D. leading
16.A. own business B. new project C. law career D. personal time
17. A. competitions B. trades C. races D. branches
18.A. wear B. have C. donate D. mind
19. A. problem B. belief C. idea D. office
（2010·利津模拟）The talk between the two leaders aimed at ending the long _____of
war between the two countries.
A. sense B. case C. state D. condition
（2010·宝鸡模拟） After watching the movie Avadar, Mary lay in bed with her eyes_______ open while all her family were_______asleep.
A．widely；soundly B．wider；soundly C．widely；sound D．wide；sound
（2010·南京模拟）—We will take the conditions into careful consideration _______ you have attached to this contract.
—Thanks. Hope for further cooperation.
A. as B. which C. where D. what
（2010·云南名校5月联考）______ the danger from enemy action, people had to deal with a
severe shortage of food, clothing, fuel, and almost everything.
A. As soon as B. As long as C. As far as D. As well as
