5．How many people have I met who have told me about the book they have been planning to write but have never yet found the time？Far too many．
This is Life，all right，but we do treat it like a rehearsal（排演）and，unhappily，we do miss so many of its best moments．
We take jobs to stay alive and provide homes for our families，always making ourselves believe that this style of life is only a temporary（暫時的）state of affairs along the road to what we really want to do．Then，at 60or 65，we are suddenly given a clock and several grandchildren and we look back and realize that all those years waiting for Real Life to come along were in fact real life．
In America they have a saying much laughed at by the English："Have a nice day．"They speak slowly and seriously in their shops，hotels and sandwich bars．I think it is a wonderful phrase，making us remember，in effect，to enjoy the moment：to value this very day．
How often do we say to ourselves，"I'll take up horse-riding（or golf，or sailing）as soon as I get a greater job，"only to do none of those things when we do get the higher position．（職位）
When I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well-paid respectable job at Daily Telegraph to go and work for a small weekly newspaper．At the time I was surprised by his decision：Why was he in this completely abnormal（反常的）mental（精神）state？How could anyone turn his back on Fleet Street in central London for a small area in the countryside？I wanted to know．
Now when I am a little older and possibly wiser，I see the sense in it．In Fleet Street the man was under continual pressure．He lived in all unattractive London suburb（郊區(qū)）and he spent much of his life sitting on Southern Region trains to and back from his work．
48．The first paragraph of the passage tells us thatB．
A．we always try to find some time to write a book
B．we always make plans but seldom complete them
C．we always enjoy many of life's best moments
D．we always do what we really want to do
49．The underlined phrase"turn his back on"（Paragraph 6）most probably meansC．
A．leave for B．return to C．give up D．rely on
50．The man（Paragraph 6）left his first job became he wasB．
A．in an abnormal mental state
B．under too much pressure
C．not well-paid
D．not respected
51．What is probably the best title for the passage？C
A．Provide Homes for Our Family
B．Take Up Horse-Riding
C．Value This Very Day
D．Stay Alive．
分析 本文主要告訴我們在生活中要珍惜每一天，享受每一天．要去做自己想做的事情．
解答 48-51 BCBC
48 B 主旨題．由第一段they have been planning to write but have never yet found the time可知，許多人都告訴過作者正在計劃寫書但是沒有時間，可見這段意在揭露人們光說不做的現象．所以B項正確．
49 C 推斷題．由第六段第一句"When I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well-paid respectable job at Daily Telegraph to go and work for a small weekly newspaper"可得，作者認識的這個人放棄了在 Fleet Street 光鮮的工作而投奔了一個小報社，所以 turn his back on 應為"放棄"之意，故C項正確．A項"動身去…"，B項"返回…"，D項"依賴于…"，均不符合題意．故正確答案為C．
50 B 細節(jié)題．由最后一段第二句"In Fleet Street the man was under continual pressure"可知，在 Fleet Street 工作壓力太大，所以他辭職了，故正確答案為B．
51 C 主旨題．由第二段"This is Life，all right，but we do treat it like a rehearsal（排演） and，unhappily，we do miss so many of its best moments"可知，作者認為人們錯過了很多美好的時刻，應該珍惜每一天，后文舉例佐證這一觀點，所以C項正確．A項，撐起一個家是作者舉的一個例子，與主題無關，所以A項錯誤．B項，騎馬也是作者舉的一個例子，表現很多人想找到更好的工作之后再去享受生活，與主題無關，所以B項錯誤．D項，文中未提及，所以D項錯誤．故正確答案為C．
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