单选题
When my doctor told me the results of all the tests, I was sure my illness was fatal and certain that I was going to die. One of my first
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was that I would be leaving behind me so much that was unfinished. I told my friends that the
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on my tombstone should read: "Grade of Incomplete." That
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my life, and I regretted my delays and excuses. I wished that I had more time to do it all over again the right way. But deep inside I felt such a wish was useless. I imagined no recourse but to spend my remaining months in a gradual state of
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, too weak, too sick and too absorbed in my dying to do much else. I cried a lot and felt very sorry for myself.
After the operation to remove the tumor, my surgeon told me that I was cured. At first, I didn"t believe him. I thought he was humouring me, stringing me alone because he wanted me to be happy in my final months.
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, though, I began to believe that he was telling me the truth and that I did indeed have a life ahead of me. Because I didn"t want my
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simply to become a bad memory, I started to change the way I ran my life. I finished the photography project that summer. Then I applied for matriculation at my local college in the fall. Within a year I had chosen
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I"m still working on getting that degree. Most important of all, my children and I took that
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we"d always talked about. We took another one in the winter, too. At the end of five years I realized that I had rebuilt my life"s patterns. And now each day is more fulfilling than
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That"s something I couldn"t say before the day that cancer
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.
【答案解析】[解析] 考词语的搭配和形近词的辨析。四个选项只有C项inscription“碑文，墓志铭”与tombstone搭配。与后文“Grade of Incomplete”即碑文内容相对应。description描述。prescription药方。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 句意：墓志铭概括了我的一生，我为自己曾经的拖沓和借口感到后悔。前面讲墓志铭为Grade of Incomplete，可以说墓志铭的内容正是对作者以前人生的简要总结。A选项sum up“总结，概括”是正确答案。选项B和C均指“结束”，不与墓志铭搭配，故两项均不合适。D选项shorten“缩短”不合常理，墓志铭不会缩短人的一生。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 句意：我想不到任何求助对象，只是在一种逐渐颓废的状态下度过我生命的最后几个月；我极度虚弱，病得很严重，满脑子都是我要死去的想法，以至于什么事情都不想做。根据常识，一个人面临死亡而无能为力时，自暴自弃，自甘堕落是可以理解的做法。D选项deterioration“堕落，颓废，恶化”符合题意。corrosion“腐蚀，侵蚀”，permeation“渗入”和intervention“干涉，干预”与too weak，too sick and too absorbed in my dying to do much else表达的悲观情感不一致，为干扰项。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 四个选项中，只有A选项gradually“逐渐地”表示时间，且在时间先后上与“At first”自然衔接起来，故选项A是正确答案。选项B中by and large“总的来说，大体而言”，C项incidentally“顺便提及地，偶然地”和D项by accident“偶然地”置于空格处不能表达时间上顺序，不合逻辑。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 句意：因为我不希望我的劫后余生仅仅成为一段痛苦的回忆，我开始改变生活方式。前面部分作者主要讨论了自己如何死里逃生，以及劫后余生的经历对其以后人生的积极影响。关键词为“a bad memory”，故B选项“与死神擦肩而过，遭遇死亡”为正确答案。A选项experience为中性词，无法与前面痛苦的回忆相呼应。regret“遗憾”与hospitalization“住院治疗”不符合语境。