辽宁省葫芦岛市2014--2015学年高二下学期市五校协作体期中考试 英语试题
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （共15题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A,B,C,D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
As a good mother to three children, I have tried never to let my passion stand in the way of being a good parent．
I no longer consider myself the center of the universe．I show up．I listen．I try to laugh．I am a good friend to my husband．I have tried to make marriage vows （誓言）mean what they say．I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me．Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today．
So here's what I want to tell you today: Get a life．A real life, not a desire of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house．
Get a life in which you are not alone．Find people you love, and who love you．And remember that love is not leisure; it is work．Pick up the phone．Send an e-mail．Write a letter．And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted．
It's so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours and our minutes．It's so easy to exist instead of to live．I learned to live many years ago．Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all．And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all．
I learned to love the journey, not the destination．I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally．And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned．
By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face．Learn to be happy．If you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived．
21．It can be inferred from the passage that ．
A．the author didn't try her best to work well
B．the author spent all her time caring for her children
C．the author is a success in personal life
D．the author likes traveling very much
22．How did the author form her view of life?
A．Through social experience． B．By learning from her friends．
C．From her children and husband． D．Through an unfortunate experience．
