阅读短文，根据短文内容从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。
I had never been much interested in sports. I had tried playing tennis, swimming and running but found nothing I liked. But 10 years ago, I found the right kind of exercise--- 41 .
Why did I start walking? At the age of twenty, my doctor told me I had a serious illness and 42 not live longer. I was so 43 then. I spent all of my life worrying. The doctor suggested that I should 44 . I didn’t listen at first. 45 , after several months, I began to get the meaning of the doctor’s words. While I was walking, I began to 46 flowers. I would stop and enjoy their beauty. I 47 found that I had missed the most beautiful part of life--- flowers, falling leaves, snow-covered houses. I had been wasting time worrying about 48 .
Now I’m 35, and I don’t worry any more about 49 may happen, Worry only makes me miss the good things in 50 . I want to say hello to everything because I’m living a new life.
A．skating B．fishing C．riding D．walking
A．must B．need C．may D．should
A．happy B．worried C．excited D．bored
A．take more exercise B．watch more TV C．play computer games less D．have enough sleep
A．If B．So C．Unless D．However
A．notice B．water C．pick D．plant
A．usually B．early C．quickly D．normally
A．pressure B．death C．study D．work
A．what B．when C．why D．where
A．season B．life C．book D．family
Freshmen in high school can be cruel and we certainly were to a young man named Matt who was in my class.We teased（取笑） him about his .He was at least fifty pounds overweight.He felt the pain of being the last one to play basketball or football.Matt will always remember the endless that were played on him.
One day he sat near me in gym class.Someone him and he fell on me and knocked my foot quite .With the whole class watching，I chose to fight in order to keep my image intact (not spoiled).I , “C’mon, Matt, let’s fight!” He said he didn’t want to.But he had to come toward me with his fists（拳头）in the .I bloodied his nose with one hit and the class went .Just then the gym teacher walked into the room.He saw us fighting and he us out to the running track.
He followed us with a on his face and said, “I want you two guys to go out there and run that mile holding each other’s hands.” The exploded into laughter.The two of us felt beyond belief, but Matt and I went out to the track and ran our mile — hand in hand.
At some point during the of our run, I remember looking over at him, with blood trickling（滴） from his nose and his weight him down.I suddenly realized that here was a(n) , not all that different from myself.We both each other and began to laugh.In time we became good friends.
Going around that track, hand in hand, I no longer saw Matt as fat or .He was a human being.I found it after I was told to go hand in hand with someone for only one mile.For the rest of my I have never so much as raised a hand against another person.
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Don’t let Aurora’s small stature（身材）fool you—her spirit is strong. She is one of 140 chickens from a farm. When we saved her, she was tiny and sick and it seemed that she would survive. Having never got the right , many of the chickens were sick and some died.
At a young age, Aurora and her sisters and brothers were by their mom. Luckily, another mother their care. Aurora seemed the last to food and attention. She grew at a much slower than her brothers and sisters. Everything seemed her.
At the young age of seven months, Aurora had lost two moms and was to find a place with the other chickens.
Aurora found comfort with an old chicken named Margaret, staying under her wings during the cold nights, Margaret was so old that a few months later she died. Aurora, in her own way, thinks of Margaret. Every evening, you will find her in the spot where she kept Margaret company. when the other chickens try to her away, Aurora comes back.
As Aurora grew, we became at her love to simply live. Nothing her.
So remember, when life seems so that you can’t take it, think of Aurora. She has lost two moms, watched her sisters and brothers die, and from serious illnesses. Yet she enjoys the small, sweet life has offered—safety, food, warmth and good friendships.
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As the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of relaxation. Once you are in the habit of rushing through life, being ______ from morning till night, it is hard to _________ down. But relaxation is necessary for a healthy mind and body.
Stress is a ______ part of everyday life and there is no way to avoid it. However, it is not the bad thing that is often supposed to be. A ________ amount of stress is important to provide motivation and give ______ to life. It is only when the stress gets out of control that it can lead to poor performance and ________ health.
The amount of stress a person can _________ depends very much on the individual. Some people are not afraid of stress, and such characters are obviously chief material for managerial responsibilities (经营责任). Others lose heart at the __________ of unusual difficulties. When exposed to stress, in whatever form, we react both chemically and __________.
In fact, we make a choice between “fright and fight”. And in more __________ days the choices made the difference between life and ________. The crises we meet today are _______ to be so extreme, but however __________ the stress is, it requires the same response. It is when such a reaction lasts long, through continued exposure to stress, that ________ becomes endangered. Such serious conditions as high blood pressure and heart diseases have established links with _______. Since we cannot remove stress from our lives (it would be unwise to do even if we could), we need to find ways to deal with it.
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Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so that I decided to write an article about her.
I Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meted her to talk about her career. She and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday. When I 45, I was scared out of my mind. I I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.
I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “ Can you tell me…” I soon realized that Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The was almost unbearable. I struggled for days draft after draft. Finally I put my manuscript（手稿）into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.
It didn’t take long. My manuscript . How stupid of me! I thought. How could I in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer. Five years later, I was moving to California, While cleaning my apartment, I the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in .
Dear Ms Profit,
Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need some materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to your story soon.
Shocked, it took me a long time to . Fear of rejection cost me dearly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and a chance of having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of enjoyable writing. Today, I have become a full-time writer. my experience, I learned a very important lesson: You can’t to doubt yourself.
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A compare B. struggleC. compete D. survive
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Accept life as it is.I learned how to do it from my father._______, he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was _______and ill.
My father was ______a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness _______ all that away.Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day.Even talking is ______.One night, I went to visit him with my sisters.We started _______about life, and I told them about one of my ______.I said that we must very often give things up _______we grow --- our youth, our beauty, our friends --- but it always _______that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place.Then suddenly my father _______up.He said, “But, Peter, I gave up _______! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I couldn’t think of anything to say.__ ____, he answered his own question: “I _______the love of my family,” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.
I was also _______by his words.After that, when I began to feel irritated (愤怒的) at someone, I ____remember his words and become ______.If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be______to give up my small irritations.In this _______, I learned the power of acceptance from my father.
Sometimes I _______what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy.For now, though, I am grateful for this one _______.
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