It was the first day of school. I had a new classmate, a little old lady with a warm smile.
She said, “ Hi, young man! I’m Rose. I’m 87 years old. Can I give you a hug(拥抱)?”
I said
, “ Of course!”
“Why are you in college at
an age?” I asked.
She joked, “ I’m here to meet a
husband, get married, have children, and then travel around the world.”
“No, seriously,” I asked.
“ I always
of having a college education. Now I’m getting one!” she told me .
After a year, Rose became popular. She easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the attention from
.
At the end of the semester(学期) we invited Rose to
at our party. I’ll never foget what she
taught
.
“We do not stop playing becasuse we are old; we grow
because we stop playing. Here are the
of staying young. You have to laugh and find humour every_______. You’ve got to have a dream. When you
your dreams, you die!”she said.
“There is a big
between growing old and growing up. Anybody can grow old. That doesn’t take any talent or ability,” she added. “But to
, you have to find the chance in change. Have no regrets(遗憾). We usually don’t have regrets for what we did,
rather for things we did not do.”
Finally we graduated from the college with Rose. One week
graduation(毕业), she died peacefully in her sleep. She taught us by example that it’s never too late to be all you can possibly be.
| 小题1: | | A．slowly | B．happily | C．heavily | D．badly |
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| 小题4: | | A．hoped | B．wished | C．wanted | D．dreamed |
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| 小题5: | | A．another | B．the other | C．the others | D．others |
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| 小题6: | | A．say | B．speak | C．talk | D．discuss |
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| 小题9: | | A．stories | B．secrets | C．seasons | D．surveys |
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| 小题12: | | A．chance | B．change | C．difference | D．problem |
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| 小题13: | | A．stand up | B．grow up | C．grow old | D．keep healthy |
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| 小题14: | | A．because | B．so | C．though | D．but |
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| 小题15: | | A．in | B．after | C．during | D．before |
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