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【題目】Some years ago, writing in my diary used to be a usual activity. I would return from school and spend the expected half hour recording the day’s event, feelings, and impressions in my little blue diary. I did not really need to express my emotions by way of words, but I gained a certain satisfaction from seeing my experiences forever recorded on paper. After all, isn’t accumulating memories a way of preserving the past?

When I was thirteen years old, I went on a long journey on foot in a great valley, well-equipped with pens, a diary, and a camera. During the trip, I was busy recording every incident, name and place I came across. I felt proud to be spending my time productively, dutifully preserving for future generations a detailed description of my travels. On my last night there, I wandered out of my tent, diary in hand. The sky was clear and lit by the glare of the moon, and the walls of the valley looked threatening behind their screen of shadows. I automatically took out my pen….

At that point, I understood that nothing I wrote could ever match or replace the few seconds I allowed myself to experience the dramatic beauty of the valley. All I remembered of the previous few days were the dull characterizations I had set down in my diary.

Now, I only write in my diary when I need to write down a special thought or feeling. I still love to record ideas and quotations that strike me in books, or observations that are particularly meaningful. I take pictures, but not very often—only of objects I find really beautiful. I’m no longer blindly satisfied with having something to remember when I grow old. I realize that life will simply pass me by if I stay behind the camera, busy preserving the present so as to live it in the future.

I don’t want to wake up one day and have nothing but a pile of pictures and notes. Maybe I won’t have as many exact representations of people and places; maybe I’ll forget certain facts, but at least the experiences will always remain inside me. I don’t live to make memories—I just live, and the memories form. themselves.

【1】Beforetheageofthirteen,theauthorregardedkeepingadiaryasawayof________________.

A. observingherschoolroutine

B. expressinghersatisfaction

C. impressingherclassmates

D. preservingherhistory

【2】Whatcausedachangeintheauthor’sunderstandingofkeepingadiary?

A. Adullnightonthejourney.

B. Thebeautyofthegreatvalley.

C. Astrikingquotationfromabook.

D. Herconcernsforfuturegenerations.

【3】Theauthorcomestorealizethattoliveameaningfullifeis_________________.

A. toexperienceit B. tolivethepresentinthefuture

C. tomakememories D. togiveaccuraterepresentationsofit

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】A

【解析】這是一篇富有生活哲理的記敘文。作者小時候喜歡寫日記，每天忙著把“現(xiàn)在”記錄在本子上。但她13歲時的一次經(jīng)歷使她意識到，我們應(yīng)該學會享受而不是記錄“現(xiàn)在”，“活著不是為了記憶”。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。由文章第一段的最后一句話“After all, isn't accumulating memories a way of preserving the past？”可知，我認為通過看過去經(jīng)歷的記錄是保存過去的一種方式，故選D項。

【2】細節(jié)理解題。由第三段的第一句話“At that point, I understood that nothing I wrote could ever match or replace the few seconds I allowed myself to experience the dramatic beauty of the valley.”可知，山谷的美讓我意識到?jīng)]有什么能比得上讓自己去體驗美。故選B項。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。由最后一段的最后一句“I don't live to make memories...I just live，and the memories form themselves”可知A項正確，C項不正確；由第四段最后一句“I realize that life will simply pass me by if I stay behind the camera，busy preserving the present so as to live it in the future.”可知B項錯誤。由最后一段第二句話“Maybe I won't have as many exact representations of people and places；maybe I'll forget certain facts，but at least the experiences will always remain inside me.”可知D項錯誤。最后一段作者說，“也許我會忘了一些事實，但至少，這些經(jīng)歷將一直在我的腦海里”。這就是主人公對生活的感悟：把握現(xiàn)在，感受今天；生活，重在感受而不是為了回憶而記憶。答案　為A。