Question

I am discovering that many people want, above all else, to live life fully. But sometimes the past prohibits our living and enjoying life to the utmost in the present.

A school teacher (1)______ his room a few minutes early and (2)______ a mealworm laboriously crawling along the floor. It had somehow been (3)______. The back part of the worm was dead and dried up, but still attached to the (4)______, living part by just a thin thread.

As the teacher (5)______ the strange sight of a poor worm (6)______ its dead half across the floor, a little girl ran in and noticed it there. Picking it up, she said, oh, Oscar, when are you going to (7)______ that dead part so you can really live?

What a marvelous (8)______ for all of us! When are we going to lose that dead part so we can really live? When are we going to let go of past pain so we can live (9)______? When are we going to drop the baggage of needless guilt so we can (10)______ life? When are we going to let go of that past resentment so we can know peace?

Have you been dragging something that is dead and gone around with you? Are you ready to lose that dead part so you can really live?

1. A. entered                 B. left                           C. rushed                     D. slipped

2. A. saw               B. searched                   C. noticed                     D. found

3. A. killed                    B. injured               C. hurt                         D. damage

4. A. behind                  B. middle               C. head                        D. front

5. A. studied                 B. researched              C. took                         D. learned

6. A. pushing         B. taking                C. pulling               D. bringing

7. A. lose               B. miss                         C. cut                          D. place

8. A. problem         B. question                   C. doubt                       D. puzzle

9. A. happily                 B. sadly                        C. joyfully                    D. fully

10. A. live                     B. enjoy                        C. experience         D. treasure

Answer 1

【解題導語】本文是一篇夾敘夾議的文章，主要通過分析生活中的一個現象，得出一個人生哲理：生活中我們要善于放棄包袱，輕裝上陣，這樣我們才能生活得精彩、充實。

【新詞鏈接】  above all   首先，尤其是，最重要的是

              let go of sb. / sth.  把某人(某物)放開，松開手

【試題解析】

1. A   老師在提前進入(enter)教室時發現了一條米蟲在吃力地爬行，拖著已經死去的殘軀。

2. C   老師此時是不經意地注意到，所以用notice。

3. B   米蟲還在爬，所以不能用dead，只是受傷了，要用injured; 而hurt通常指心靈上的傷害。

4. D   蟲的后半個部位已經死了，干了，依附在它身體的前部（front）。

5. A   老師在觀察這個現象，這個觀察帶有一定的研究（study）性。

6. C   與前文相呼應，這個蟲子拖著（pulling）死去的身體部分在爬行。

7. A   “要活命就得放棄死去的部分�！币虼诉@個死去的部分就成了累贅，loss這里帶有放棄的意思。miss“錯過”，cut“切下”，place“放置”，均與句子意思不符。

8. B   這個問題恰恰也是值得我們思考的問題，需要回答的問題通常用question表示。

9. D   我們把過去的痛苦忘掉，才能生活得精彩、充實（full）。

10. C  只有我們把不必要的負疚的包袱放掉，才能更好地體驗（experience）生活。