二、完形填空。(共 15 小题;每小题 1 分,计 15 分)
It was the first day of school. I had a new classmate, an old lady with a warm smile.
She said, “Hi, young man! I'm Rose. I'm 87 years old. Can I give you a hug?”
I said 1
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, “Of course!”
“Why are you in college(大学) 2
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such an age?” I asked.
She joked, “I'm here to meet a 3
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husband, get married, have children, and then travel around the world.”
“Seriously?” I said.
“I always 4
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of having a college education. Now I'm getting one!” she told me.
After a year, Rose became popular. She easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the attention from 5
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.
At the end of the term, we invited Rose to 6
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at our party. I'll never forget what she taught 7
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.
“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow 8
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because we stop playing. Here are the 9
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of staying young. You have to laugh and find humour every 10
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. You've got to have a dream. When you 11
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your dreams, you die(死亡)!” she said.
“There is a big 12
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between growing old and growing up. Anybody can grow old. That doesn't take any talent(天赋) or ability,” she added. “But to 13
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, you have to find the chance in change. Try to have no regrets(遗憾). We usually don't have regrets for what we did, but for 14
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we did not do.”
Finally we graduated(毕业) from the college with Rose. One week 15
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graduation(毕业), she died peacefully in her sleep. She taught us by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.
