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’11 most certainly be right．”It made a deep  36 on me．and since then。for the  past 33 years，I have  37 in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life， 38  I want to do what I am about to do today?”And whenever the answer has been“No”for too many days in a  39 ，I know I need to change something．
Remembering that I’ll be  40 soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big  41 in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death，  42 only what is truly important
About a year ago I was  43  with cancer My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs  44 order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die．I  45  with that diagnosis all day．  46  ，at last an advanced test showed that i。。t was a very rare cancer that is  47 with surgery．I had the surgery and I’m fine now
 48 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  49 ．No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of  50 ．It is life's change agent It clears out the old to  51  for the new．Right now the new is you．but someday not too  52 from n6w，you will．gradually’become the old and be cleared away．Sorry to be so dramatic，but it is quite true．
Your time is  53 ，so don’t waste it living，someone else’s 1ife．Don’t be  54  by dogma（教条） —which is living with the results of other people’s thinking．Don’t let the noise of others’opinions drown out your own inner  55 ．And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart
36．A．impression        B．curse              C． decision                  D．joke
37．A．seen              B．looked            C．found              D．1ost
38．A．would             B．should            C．might               D．could
39．A．hurry              B．1ine              C．moment             D．row
40．A．successful          B．rich              C．dead             D．frustrated
41．A．apologies          B．fortune           C．impressions          D．choices
42．A．proving           B．leaving            C．confirming         D．telling
43．A．diagnosed          B．cured            C．treated              D．round
44．A．on                B．for              C． in                D．at
45．A．met               B．got              C．did                       D．1ived
46．A．However          B．But              C．Therefore         D．So
47．A．incurable          B．curable              C．fatal              D．changeable
48．A．Anyone           B．Someone         C．No one           D．Everyone
49．A．want             B．avoid             C．share            D．escape
50．A．destination        B．1ife              C．science            D．disease
51．A．make up             B．make for          C．make our          D．make wav
52．A．distant             B．short               C．long              D．away   
53．A．1imited            B．rare               C．enough           D．1ost
54．A．wasted              B．cheated            C．excited            D．trapped
55．A．voice               B．love              C．direction          D．confusion