After my husband Paul was diagnosed with lung cancer, he said, “It’s going to be OK.” And I remember answering back, “Yes. We just don’t know what OK means yet.”
Paul and I met as medical students at Yale. I fell in love with him as I watched the ________he took with his patients. He later told me he fell in love with me when he saw me ________ over an EKG(心电图) of a heart that had ________ beating. We didn’t know it yet, but we were learning how to ________ suffering together.
I lived with Paul’s illness for 22 months. I’ve always thought of myself as a caregiver, and attending to Paul ________ what that meant. As physicians, we were in a good ________ to understand and even ________ the diagnosis. We weren’t angry about it, luckily, ________ we’d seen so many patients in ________ situations, and we knew that ________ is a part of life. But it's one thing to know that; it was a very ________ experience to actually live with the sadness and ________ of a serious illness.
As a poem says, “Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is sewn with its color.” For me that poem ________ my love for Paul, and a new strength that came from loving and losing him. When Paul said, “It’s going to be OK,” that didn’t mean that we could ________ his illness. ________, we learned to accept both joy and sadness at the same time because we are all born and we all die. ________ ourselves in the full range of experience—living and dying, love and ________—is what we get to do. When we approach suffering together and choose not to ________ it, our lives don’t shrink; they ________. Our job isn’t to fight fate, but to help each other ________. That’s how we make it OK, even when it’s not.
1.A. control B. test C. notice D. care
2.A. whisper B. watch C. cry D. think
3.A. ceased B. rejected C. delayed D. missed
4.A. stand B. approach C. assess D. contain
5.A. transformed B. deepened C. refreshed D. enlarged
6.A. status B. will C. knowledge D. position
7.A. cure B. accept C. fight D. rid
8.A. because B. once C. providing D. until
9.A. stable B. virtual C. impressive D. disastrous
10.A. love B. cancer C. death D. devotion
11.A. different B. unforgettable C. reluctant D. terrifying
12.A. prevention B. risk C. uncertainty D. influence
13.A. brings forward B. figures out C. sets out D. calls up
14.A. confirm B. resist C. cure D. relieve
15.A. Instead B. Therefore C. However D. Moreover
16.A. Burying B. Involving C. Employing D. Enjoying
17.A. divorce B. struggle C. loss D. disagreement
18.A. hide from B. laugh at C. get over D. wipe out
19.A. survive B. expand C. switch D. continue
20.A. away B. over C. up D. through
高三英语完形填空中等难度题
After my husband Paul was diagnosed with lung cancer, he said, “It’s going to be OK.” And I remember answering back, “Yes. We just don’t know what OK means yet.”
Paul and I met as medical students at Yale. I fell in love with him as I watched the ________he took with his patients. He later told me he fell in love with me when he saw me ________ over an EKG(心电图) of a heart that had ________ beating. We didn’t know it yet, but we were learning how to ________ suffering together.
I lived with Paul’s illness for 22 months. I’ve always thought of myself as a caregiver, and attending to Paul ________ what that meant. As physicians, we were in a good ________ to understand and even ________ the diagnosis. We weren’t angry about it, luckily, ________ we’d seen so many patients in ________ situations, and we knew that ________ is a part of life. But it's one thing to know that; it was a very ________ experience to actually live with the sadness and ________ of a serious illness.
As a poem says, “Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is sewn with its color.” For me that poem ________ my love for Paul, and a new strength that came from loving and losing him. When Paul said, “It’s going to be OK,” that didn’t mean that we could ________ his illness. ________, we learned to accept both joy and sadness at the same time because we are all born and we all die. ________ ourselves in the full range of experience—living and dying, love and ________—is what we get to do. When we approach suffering together and choose not to ________ it, our lives don’t shrink; they ________. Our job isn’t to fight fate, but to help each other ________. That’s how we make it OK, even when it’s not.
1.A. control B. test C. notice D. care
2.A. whisper B. watch C. cry D. think
3.A. ceased B. rejected C. delayed D. missed
4.A. stand B. approach C. assess D. contain
5.A. transformed B. deepened C. refreshed D. enlarged
6.A. status B. will C. knowledge D. position
7.A. cure B. accept C. fight D. rid
8.A. because B. once C. providing D. until
9.A. stable B. virtual C. impressive D. disastrous
10.A. love B. cancer C. death D. devotion
11.A. different B. unforgettable C. reluctant D. terrifying
12.A. prevention B. risk C. uncertainty D. influence
13.A. brings forward B. figures out C. sets out D. calls up
14.A. confirm B. resist C. cure D. relieve
15.A. Instead B. Therefore C. However D. Moreover
16.A. Burying B. Involving C. Employing D. Enjoying
17.A. divorce B. struggle C. loss D. disagreement
18.A. hide from B. laugh at C. get over D. wipe out
19.A. survive B. expand C. switch D. continue
20.A. away B. over C. up D. through
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I was diagnosed with cancer in September 2005, after discovering a small lump in my neck. All seemed well after the lump had been removed. However, a follow-up blood test revealed that the cancer had spread. I underwent chemotherapy(化疗), and within four months I lost nearly 20kg, all my hair and energy.
I got a tentative all-clear(解除警报)two days after my 28 the birthday. To me, it signaled a new start, and I couldn’t wait to get on with my life. The doctors told me that it would be months before I could get back to my old activity levels, but I just didn’t want to accept this. I wanted to be normal again –now, not in six months.
So I started by simply walking around Edinburgh. Each day I would get home four or five hours later feeling like I had run a marathon. After less than six weeks, I half-ran, half-crawled up Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh. I spent the next couple of days in bed recovering, but soon after that I was back in the gym.
My diet had never been great before I fell ill --- I was a real vegetable-phobe(厌恶蔬菜的人)， and to some extent I still am. Nowadays, though, I make myself eat more natural foods. I have discovered that a good blender and a slow-cooker help make foods I don’t like bearable.
When one suffers a physical setback, emotional support from others is important. Still, there are things only you can do for yourself; at the end of the day, you are the one going through it. I went back to work, and now have started a company to take my passion for health and fitness forward. I believe that what holds most people back is a poor mental attitude and lack of determination. You can achieve whatever you want; you just have to work hard at it.
1.What do we learn about the author from the passage?
A. He was diagnosed with cancer after a regular blood test.
B. He got back in the gym two days after his 28th birthday.
C. His doctors asked him not to do any kind of exercise for six months.
D. He wanted to recover from his illness as soon as possible.
2. How did the author change his diet?
A. He started eating more natural foods.
B. He began to like eating vegetables.
C. He learned to cook by himself.
D. He liked eating the foods he hadn’t liked before.
3. Based on the last paragraph, the author thinks that_________.
A. the help and support of others are useless to sick people
B. people can’t be mentally unprepared to decide things
C. people should do everything by themselves
D. hard-working people get what they want
4.The author thinks the main thing in life is _______.
A. optimism B. calmness
C. passion D. honesty
5.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Life Depends on Exercise
B. Perseverance Is the Key to Success
C. How I Bear Cancer
D. How to Overcome Cancer
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Eleven years ago, the world I was familiar with ended. My _______ was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Over the course of seven months, Bill went from_______ me at tennis to needing my help to go to the bathroom.
It was the_______ time of my life. Maybe not_______. But it was certainly the time when I felt most alive. I _______ that a flat tire or the small complaints of a child with the sniffles (抽鼻子)_______ in comparison with the beauty of sudden laughter, the night sky, the _______ of a bakery. I found I could _______ myself to see more beauty.
In the days after Bill’s diagnosis and brain surgery, being his caregiver _______ me to find clinical trials and talk to different oncologists, which gave me a sense of________. In the later days, it meant being fully present for almost every moment. During his last weekend, a relative________ him. I noticed that she’d changed her appearance, and not in a good way. It was the kind of thought I’d ________ keep to myself. Just then, Bill ________ exactly what I’d been thinking, in that ruthlessly (鲁莽地) truthful way he had, and I found myself________ out loud.
“I could live with this man forever, even________ as much care as he does,” I thought. However, he would be dead in four________!
Eleven years later, I still try to be the ________ I became during those seven months. I try to be a little more ________ and generous, a little more grateful for the small __________ in life. It was my husband’s last, best __________ to me.
1.A.child B.husband C.father D.brother
2.A.teaching B.encouraging C.beating D.hugging
3.A.best B.worst C.hardest D.longest
4.A.correctly B.exactly C.fortunately D.fluently
5.A.discovered B.figured C.confirmed D.hoped
6.A.changed B.expanded C.appeared D.faded
7.A.tastes B.sales C.smells D.noises
8.A.persuade B.force C.command D.train
9.A.allowed B.required C.requested D.forbade
10.A.security B.dignity C.purpose D.humor
11.A.comforted B.visited C.inspected D.invited
12.A.regularly B.currently C.usually D.occasionally
13.A.announced B.repeated C.yelled D.voiced
14.A.laughing B.smiling C.crying D.breaking
15.A.declining B.accepting C.claiming D.needing
16.A.days B.weeks C.months D.years
17.A.caregiver B.person C.advisor D.nurse
18.A.demanding B.promising C.forgiving D.living
19.A.complaints B.points C.talks D.moments
20.A.gift B.lesson C.memory D.information
高三英语完形填空简单题查看答案及解析
He was diagnosed with cancer last month, but he carried on with his work ______ nothing had happened.
| A．even thought | B．as if | C．so that | D．in case |
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
It wasn’t until he was diagnosed with cancer ______ he realized the significance of health.
A. when B. that C. which D. what
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When 45-year-old Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (胰腺癌), he chose to focus on living rather than dying. As a computer science _______ at Carnegie Mellon University, Pausch was selected to deliver a “last lecture”. This well-known and popular campus _________ allowed professors to share worldly _________ with all the students in this school as if they were dying and had one last lecture to give.
The only _________ in Pausch’s case is that Pausch really was dying, a fact that only _________ him more rather than discouraging him. He delivered his last lecture, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, on Sept. 18, 2007, in the _________ McConomy Auditorium (大礼堂).
Pausch began by sharing his boyhood dreams, some of which he had achieved and others he hadn’t. He _________ the importance of having dreams and how anyone can still learn a lot by reaching for those dreams, _________ they don’t always succeed. He shared the values and lessons through experience, which he hoped to _________ to others: honesty, hard work, gratitude.
Pausch’s last lecture __________ a great deal of praise and attention __________ it even became a YouTube __________, and in October 2007, he __________ a version on The Oprah Winfrey Show. He __________ the lecture into a book by the same name, which __________ became a best-seller. Readers were deeply __________ by the book’s description of Pausch’s lifelong philosophy and the way it revealed the fundamental __________ of his motivation to live on一his three young children.
Randy Pausch __________ on July 25, 2008, but his __________ still lives on in the recorded lecture and his book. He __________ to motivate us all by encouraging us to never give up on our childhood dreams.
1.A.student B.engineer C.professor D.programmer
2.A.tradition B.atmosphere C.principle D.system
3.A.success B.fortune C.courage D.wisdom
4.A.difference B.challenge C.dilemma D.contradiction
5.A.convinced B.inspired C.surprised D.bothered
6.A.distributed B.packed C.covered D.blocked
7.A.illustrated B.suspected C.adjusted D.realized
8.A.only if B.in case C.so that D.even if
9.A.turn over B.hand in C.pass on D.give out
10.A.allocated B.appreciated C.received D.reflected
11.A.but B.and C.or D.so
12.A.hit B.symbol C.comment D.advertisement
13.A.invested B.announced C.regulated D.presented
14.A.turned B.divided C.expanded D.classified
15.A.frequently B.gradually C.quickly D.formally
16.A.distracted B.impressed C.amused D.worried
17.A.effect B.theory C.source D.standard
18.A.died away B.died off C.passed out D.passed away
19.A.voice B.status C.quality D.appearance
20.A.promises B.continues C.deserves D.determines
高三英语完形填空困难题查看答案及解析
I once had a friend that was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and the news that he might only live up to six months was a great shock to him, his family, and his friends. However, in spite of the serious illness, he was initially determined to look into all available treatments that might cure or extend his life. I think that when you find yourself in such situations, you tend to look up every possible way for hope of saving your life.
As months went on and his health grew worse, I noticed an unexpected change in attitude that came over him. He had also been a happy person with a cheerful personality, but rather than give in to discouragement and self-pity, he took comfort in God and humanity. His talks focused on others rather than himself, and he spoke of the afterlife as something he was prepared for, believing that his concerned ancestors, including his mother and father, were there waiting for him.
During the last few months, weeks, and days of his life, he was kindly cared for by family, friends, his loving wife, who looked after both his physical and emotional needs, and workers from a local hospice (安养院) came to the home to regulate his medication and provide any other needed support. He didn't complain about his fate, and he willingly allowed others to serve him.
Indeed, one might think why God allows death and suffering in our world, but for me, such experiences taught me to value family more and kindness for others. You often can't learn these important attributes in the lap of luxury, and perhaps, such an experience is the greatest and final gift the illness can give those left behind.
1.What did the man do after he first learned of his illness?
A. He was operated on immediately.
B. He retired from his job.
C. He researched cancer treatments.
D. He felt sad, doing nothing.
2.What was the man's main source of comfort after several months with the disease?
A. His family and friends.
B. His belief in humanity.
C. His doctors’ encouragement.
D. The care from others.
3.What did the author learn from his friend’s story?
A. Giving more respect to friends.
B. Extending life as possible.
C. Caring for yourself and enjoying luxury.
D. Getting comfort from God.
4.What does the author mainly want to tell?
A. All people will face death, and thus, we must prepare for it spiritually.
B. Our characters can be strengthened by such an unpleasant situation.
C. Families provide the best support system during such a crisis.
D. People should help those who have got serious illness.
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I once had a friend that was diagnosed with terminal cancer（晚期癌症）, and the news that he might only live up to six months was a great shock to him, his family, and his friends．However, in spite of the serious illness, he was initially determined to look into all available treatments that might cure or extend his life．I think that when you find yourself in such situations, you tend to look up every possible way for hope of saving your life．
As months went on and his health grew worse, I noticed an unexpected change in attitude that came over him．He had also been a happy person with a cheerful personality, but rather than give in to discouragement and self-pity, he took comfort in God and humanity（人性）．His talks focused on others rather than himself, and he spoke of the afterlife as something he was prepared for, believing that his concerned ancestors, including his mother and father, were there waiting for him．
During the last few months, weeks, and days of his life, he was kindly cared for by family, friends, his loving wife, who looked after both his physical and emotional needs, and workers from a local hospice （安养院） came to the home to regulate（调节） his medication （药）and provide any other needed support．He didn't complain about his fate, and he willingly allowed others to serve him．
Indeed, one might think why God allows death and suffering in our world, but for me, such experiences taught me to value family more and kindness for others．You often can't learn these important attributes（属性）in the lap of luxury（处在优裕舒适的环境中）, and perhaps, such an experience is the greatest and final gift the illness can give those left behind．
1.Which word can best describe the man's initial（最初的） reaction as soon as he was diagnosed with cancer?
A．Satisfied． B．Sad C．Surprised D．Concerned．
2.What did the man do after he first learned of his illness?
A．He was operated on immediately．
B．He researched cancer treatments．
C．He retired from his job
D．He felt sad, doing nothing．
3.What was the man's main source of comfort after several months with the disease?
A．His family and friends． B．The care from others
C．His doctors’ encouragement． D．His belief in humanity．
4.What did the author learn from his friend’s story?
A．Getting comfort from God．
B．Extending life as possible．
C．Caring for yourself and enjoying luxury．
D．Giving more respect to friends
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I used to have a friend that was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and the news that he might only live up to six months was a great shock to him, his family, and his friends．However, in spite of the serious illness, he was initially determined to look into all available treatments that might cure or extend his life．I think that when you find yourself in such situations, you tend to look up every possible way for hope of saving your life．
With months going on and his health grew worse, I noticed an unexpected change in attitude that came over him．He had also been a happy person with a cheerful personality, but rather than give in to discouragement and self-pity, he took comfort in God and humanity．His talks focused on others rather than himself, and he spoke of the afterlife as something he was prepared for, believing that his concerned ancestors, including his mother and father, were there waiting for him．
In the last few months, weeks, and days of his life, he was kindly cared for by family, friends, his loving wife, who looked after both his physical and emotional needs, and workers from a local hospice （安养院） came to the home to regulate his medication and provide any other needed support．He didn't complain about his fate, and he willingly allowed others to serve him．Indeed, one might think why God allows death and suffering in our world, but for me, such experiences taught me to value family more and kindness for others．You often can't learn these important attributes in the lap of luxury, and perhaps, such an experience is the greatest and final gift the illness can give those left behind．
1.Which word can best describe the man's initial reaction as soon as he was diagnosed with cancer?
A．Astonished． B．Annoyed
C．Terrified． D．Confused．
2.What did the man do after he first learned of his illness?
A．He was operated on immediately．
B．He researched cancer treatments．
C．He retired from his job．
D．He felt sad, doing nothing．
3.What was the man's main source of comfort after several months with the disease?
A．His family and friends．
B．The care from others．
C．His doctors’ encouragement．
D．His belief in humanity．
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I once had a friend that was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and the news that he might only live up to six months was a great shock to him, his family, and his friends．However, in spite of the serious illness, he was initially（开始） determined to look into all available treatments that might cure or extend his life．I think that when you find yourself in such situations, you tend to look up every possible way for hope of saving your life．
As months went on and his health grew worse, I noticed an unexpected change in attitude that came over him．He had also been a happy person with a cheerful personality, but rather than give in to discouragement and self-pity, he took comfort in God and humanity（人性）．His talks focused on others rather than himself, and he spoke of the afterlife as something he was prepared for, believing that his concerned ancestors, including his mother and father, were there waiting for him．
During the last few months, weeks, and days of his life, he was kindly cared for by family, friends, his loving wife, who looked after both his physical and emotional needs, and workers from a local hospice （安养院） came to the home to regulate（调节） his medication （药）and provide any other needed support．He didn't complain about his fate, and he willingly allowed others to serve him．
Indeed, one might think why God allows death and suffering in our world, but for me, such experiences taught me to value family more and kindness for others．You often can't learn these important attributes（属性）in the lap of luxury（处在优裕舒适的环境中）, and perhaps, such an experience is the greatest and final gift the illness can give those left behind．
1.Which word can best describe the man's initial reaction as soon as he was diagnosed with cancer?
| A．Satisfied． | B．Sad | C．Surprised | D．Concerned． |
2.What did the man do after he first learned of his illness?
| A．He was operated on immediately． |
| B．He researched cancer treatments． |
| C．He retired from his job |
| D．He felt sad, doing nothing． |
3.What was the man's main source of comfort after several months with the disease?
| A．His family and friends． | B．The care from others |
| C．His doctors’ encouragement． | D．His belief in humanity． |
4.What did the author learn from his friend’s story?
| A．Getting comfort from God． |
| B．Extending life as possible． |
| C．Caring for yourself and enjoying luxury． |
| D．Giving more respect to friends |
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