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1、新课标最新版新课标最新版 2014 届高考英语三轮阅读理解精编冲刺模拟卷届高考英语三轮阅读理解精编冲刺模拟卷A 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 days events, feelings, and impressions in my little blue diary. I did not really need to express my emoti
2、ons by way of words, but I gained a certain satisfaction from seeing my experiences forever recorded on paper. After all, isnt 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, wellequipped with pens, a diary, and a
3、 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 w
4、as 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
5、 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 parti
6、cularly meaningful. I take pictures, but not very oftenonly of objects I find really beautiful. Im 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 th
7、e future. I dont want to wake up one day and have nothing but a pile of pictures and notes. Maybe I wont have as many exact representations of people and places; maybe Ill forget certain facts, but at least the experiences will always remain inside me. I dont live to make memoriesI just live, and th
8、e memories form themselves. 56Before the age of thirteen, the author regarded keeping a diary as a way of _ Aobserving her school routine Bexpressing her satisfaction Cimpressing her classmates Dpreserving her history 57What caused a change in the authors understanding of keeping a diary? AA dull ni
9、ght on the journey. BThe beauty of the great valley. CA striking quotation from a book. DHer concerns for future generations. 58What does the author put in her diary now? ANotes and beautiful pictures. BSpecial thoughts and feelings. CDetailed accounts of daily activities. DDescriptions of unforgett
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