1 . Everyday on the way to work I drive down a street lined with pine trees. One tree in particular_______my attention. It must have suffered some _______ Part of its trunk grew nearly parallel to the ground, and then in an effort to _______ its own course of life. The trunk took a 90-degree turn _______ to stand tall and stretch toward the sun.
This tree became a_______for me. Each day as I drove by, I saw this bent but determined tree and I would be _______. It was a reminder to me that _______I may not have had the best start in life, I could change_______in the parts of my life at any time.
I was planning to stop one day to get a perfect _______of my kindred-spirit (志趣相同) tree. But that week I was________. After that busy week, I still didn't take any action. Every time I drove by the tree I would________myself, "Tomorrow, I'll stop tomorrow to take one. " Then one day, as I ________ by "my" tree, I glanced over, and much to my________,I found a sawed-off stump (树桩) where that symbolic tree had stood. Gone. I had________my plan until "tomorrow" and tomorrow proved to be too ________ .
A picture of a tree is not of great ________. But my lesson rang through clearly ________ I found out one of my colleagues had been________with stage-four cancer. He may no longer have many ________.
What have you been putting off? What would you do today if you knew you would ________ have the opportunity to do it again? Why not do those things now that you have been putting off until tomorrow?
1. A.paid | B.caught | C.fixed | D.escaped |
2. A.damage | B.sadness | C.experience | D.influence |
3. A.change | B.design | C.continue | D.imagine |
4. A.applying | B.learning | C.happening | D.attempting |
5. A.symbol | B.sign | C.signal | D.shelter |
6. A.interested | B.satisfied | C.encouraged | D.educated |
7. A.as if | B.even if | C.in case | D.if only |
8. A.purpose | B.plan | C.habit | D.direction |
9. A.look | B.view | C.picture | D.knowledge |
10. A.busy | B.free | C.worried | D.bored |
11. 12. A.walked | B.drove | C.rode | D.ran |
13. A.happiness | B.pleasure | C.regret | D.astonishment |
14. A.taken off | B.cut off | C.put off | D.called off |
15. 16. A.value | B.achievement | C.fun | D.disappointment |
17. A.before | B.when | C.because | D.unless |
18. A.linked | B.combined | C.provided | D.diagnosed |
19. A.lives | B.tomorrows | C.lessons | D.opportunities |
20. A.ever | B.almost | C.never | D.surely |