2014高考英语完形填空预演复习训练（5）及答案
【陕西省西安市第一中学2014高考英语二模试题】
完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A,B,C,D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的
最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
When I was 17，I read a quote that went something like：“If you l ive each day as if it were your last，someday you’11 most certainly be right．”It made a deep 26 on me．and since then, for the past 33 years，I have 27 in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life， 28 I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a 29 ，I know I need to change something．
Remembering that I’ll be 30 soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big 31 in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death， 32 only what is truly important
About a year ago I was 33 with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs 34 order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die．I 35 with that diagnosis all day． 36 ，at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is 37 with surgery．I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
38 wants to die．Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there And yet death is the
