Ⅰ.完形填空(建议用时17′)
[2016·河北阶段检测]Years ago, I would wake up two or three times each night because of terrible pains. Having watched my father die of cancer, I __1__ that I also had a cancer. So I went to a clinic. A doctor examined me, gave me some medicine and cleared my mind of __2__ that I had a cancer. He suggested I should relax. After hearing these words, I felt __3__ and acted on the doctor's __4__. One day while I was looking over an accumulation of old __5__ on matters that were past and gone, I threw them into the wastebasket one by one. __6__ I stopped and said to myself, “Bill, why don't you do the __7__ thing with your worries that you are doing with these notes？” That idea gave me immediate __8__—gave me the feeling of a weight being lifted from me. From that day, I have made it a(n) __9__ to throw into the wastebasket all the __10__ that I can no longer do anything about.
Then one day while my wife was wiping the dishes happily, another idea __11__ to me. I thought, “Look, Bill, how __12__ your wife is. Had she thought of washing the pile of dirty dishes like a barn these years, she would have been __13__ by the thought. The reason my wife doesn't __14__ washing the dishes now is that she washes only one day's dishes at a time.” I saw what my __15__ was. I was trying to wash today's dishes and yesterday's dishes and __16__ the dishes that weren't dirty yet.
I saw how __17__ I was. I used to stand in front of people, telling other people how to live, yet I myself was leading a tense, worried, hurried existence. I felt __18__ of myself. Worries don't __19__ me any more. I now throw yesterday's anxieties into the wastebasket, and I have __20__ trying to wash tomorrow's dirty dishes today.
作者曾经生活得过度紧张，夜不能寐，甚至怀疑自己得了绝症，
但他最终通过观察生活细节悟出了让自己生活轻松、充实的办法。
1．A.declared B．feared C．acknowledged D．confirmed
答案：B 上文提到作者过去常常晚上因剧烈疼痛而醒来两、三次及目睹了他的父亲因癌症去世，所以担心自己也会患上癌症。
2．A.dissatisfaction B．misfortune C．doubt D．threat
答案：C 医生给作者检查、开了药并消除了作者的疑虑。 3．A.relieved
B．optimistic
C．content D．depressed
答案：A 作者听了医生的话以后，知道自己没得癌症可推断出作者心里感到了宽慰并且依照医生的建议行事。
4．A.opinions B．experience C．promises D．advice 答案：D 参考上题解析。 5．A.books B．papers C．notes D．clothes
答案：C 依据下文第7空后的doing with these notes提示可知此处填notes。
6．A.Suddenly B．Gradually C．Eventually D．Obviously
答案：A 作者前面一个接一个地扔掉便条，然后突然停下来并对自己说。
7．A.meaningful C．important
B．same
D．unique
答案：B 由下文提到的作者要扔掉自己的麻烦问题可知，这里是要做和扔掉便条一样的事情。
8．A.anxiety B．confusion C．strength D．inspiration
答案：D 作者的这个想法给了自己灵感，同时使自己有一种如释重负的感觉。
9．A.rule
B．order D．plan
C．difference
答案：A 从那天起，作者就养成了一个习惯。 10．A.habits B．achievements C．failures D．problems
答案：D 根据上文第7空后提到了your worries可知，这里是扔掉所有的麻烦。
11．A.returned B．happened C．occurred D．appealed
答案：C 一天，作者在看到他的妻子快乐地洗盘子时，突然有一个想法。
12．A.determined B．pleased C．surprised D．puzzled
答案：B 从前面的作者妻子快乐地洗盘子可知这里是高兴的。 13．A.encouraged B．disappointed C．defeated D．surprised
答案：C 如果想到会洗堆得像仓库一样大的脏盘子时，她一定会被这个想法击垮的。
14．A.enjoy B．mind
高中英语人教版 必修4 unit 3 taste of English humour解析
