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　　As a teenager, I felt I was always letting people down. I was rebellious （反叛的）on the outside,___1___on the inside I wanted people to ___2____me.

　　Once I left home to hitchhike（搭便車(chē)）to California with my friend Penelope. The trip wasn't ____3___, and there were many times I didn't feel safe. One situation in particular ___4____ me grateful to still be alive. When I returned home, I was not so outwardly（表面地）different.

　　I was happy to be home. But then I noticed that Penelope, who was____5____with us, was wearing my clothes. And my ____6____seemed to like her better than me. I wondered if I would be __7___if I weren't there. I told my mom, and she explained that ___8___Penelope was a lovely girl, no one could ___9___me. I pointed out,”She is more patient and is heater than I have ever been.” My mom said these were wonderful ___10____,but I was the only person who could fill my ___11____. She made me realize that even with my____12_____——and they were many ——I was a loved member of the family who couldn't be replaced.

　　I became a searcher,___13___who I was and what made me unique（獨(dú)特的）. My____14___of myself was changing. I wanted a solid base to start from. I started to resist（抵制）pressure to ___15___in ways that I didn't like any more, and I ___16___who I really was. I came to feel much more ____17___that no one can ever take my place.

　　Each of us ____18____ a unique place in the world. You are special, no matter what others say or what you may think. So ____19___ about being replaced. You ___20___ be.

The Museum of Childhood is Australia’s most comprehensive collection of childhood items including toys, dolls, infant and school material.

Housed in a modern facility（設(shè)施）, the displays reflect Australian childhood experience over time including play, child rearing(=raising),orphanage(孤兒院)childhood and home, school and war time experience.

There are many hands-on exhibits and education sessions including the famous” lesson” in the 1920s One Teacher Bush Classroom.

The Museum also hosts national touring exhibitions and conducts special activities on Sundays and school holidays(ring for details).

Open: Tuesday—Friday 10am—4pm,Sunday 10am—4:30pm,or by arrangement.

Special activities on Sundays as advertise.

Closed: Public holidays,16 December—18 January.

Location: Edith Cowan University campus, Bay Road, Claremont(take bus 208 and alight at the Bay Road and Princessinter section. The Museum is 15 minutes’ walk from Claremont.

1.On_______ you can stay at Museum until half past four.

2.If you want to attend a special activity, you’d better come on________.

3.The underlined word” alight “most probably means________.

4.The main purpose of the Museum of Childhood is to__________.

把下列詞組譯成漢語(yǔ)：

1.on purpose

2.devote to

3.be sentenced to

4.suffer from

5.dig out

短語(yǔ)英漢互譯（共10小題，每小題1分，滿(mǎn)分10分）

1.on the contrary                      2.cut down                      

3.as for                                   4.cheer up                      

5.now that                                 6.盛裝，打扮                   

7.阻止，制止                       8.偶然，無(wú)意間                         

9.出發(fā)，動(dòng)身                       10.撫養(yǎng)，培養(yǎng)                  

When I was 17，I read a quote that went something like：“If you live each day as if it were your last，someday you’ll most certainly be right” It made a deep   1 on me, and since then, for the past 33 years，I have  2 in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life，  3 I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a 4 ，I know I need to change something．
Remembering that I’ll be   5  soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big 6 in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death，  7 only what is truly important.
About a year ago I was  8 with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs  9 order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die．I  10 with that diagnosis all day．  11 ，at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is  12 with surgery．I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
 13 wants to die．Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all  14 ．No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of   15 ．It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to   16  for the new．Right now the new is you．But someday not too  17  from now，you will gradually become the old and be cleared away．Sorry to be so dramatic，but it is quite true.
Your time is  18 ，so don’t waste it living someone else’s 1ife．Don’t be  19 by dogma (教條) —which is living with the results of other people’s thinking．Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner   20 ．And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart.