第二节：七选五（共5小题，每小题2分，共10分）?
Tips for cooking on a Tight Schedule
From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often: ability, money, and time.
  36  Money is a topic I’ll save for another day. So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen. Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule:
1. Think ahead. The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I’m already hungry and there is nothing ready to eat. So think ahead of the coming week. When will you have time to cook? Do you have the right materials already?  37  
2. Make your time worth it. When you do find time to cook a meal, make the most of it and save yourself time later on. Are you making one loaf of bread?   38    it takes around the same amount of time to make more of something. So save yourself the effort for a future meal.
3.  39   This may surprise you, but one of the best tools for making cooking worth your time is experimentation. It gives you the chance to hit upon new ideas and recipes that can work well with your appetite and schedule. The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.
Hopefully that gives you a good start.   40   And don’t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!
A. Try new things. 
B. Ability is easily improved.
C. Make three or four instead.
D. Understand your food better.
E. Cooking is a burden for many people.
F. Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden.
G. A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.

第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：完形填空(共20小题，每小1.5分,满分30分)
“I can't believe you tell people your age，”my friend said.
Hey, I don't   41  . Really. In fact, I love my age, because every single birthday means   42   than just presents and cakes.
The day I heard the word “  43  ” spoken by my doctor, my life turned upside down. The cancer had spread to my lymph nodes (淋巴结). I learned at 32 to   44   death.
There were a lot of   45  to stick around — a husband of 12 years that I loved a whole lot and three beautiful children who gave me daily   46   in their love and handmade gifts that hung on the hospital wall.
However, I'm   47   for cancer. Does that sound crazy? I wouldn't wish it on   48   and I don't want to go through it again but it was a(n)  49  . It helped me to   50   every single day. It forced me to   51   my life seriously. Things that were once   52   seemed foolish. It let me pursue the desires of my heart,  53  my wallet. It gave me the ability to see life as fragile, not one day promised.
When I hit my fifth year of survival, I   54   my job to write full time. I decided not to write one more word about anything that didn't   55   to me. Cancer taught me not to let the opportunities of your heart pass you by  56   we are not promised “one day” or “someday”．
You see, life has become a series of   57  . Last month, I celebrated my 13th year of survival and embraced my 44th birthday. Next month, Richard and I will celebrate our 24th anniversary. My three young children now are all   58   their own dreams, because my cancer taught them too. 
Do I mind telling my age?  59   I'm 44! I'm thankful for all 10 gray hairs. When I look in the mirror and notice the so­called “wrinkles”，I know they are opportunities. Every line was placed there by a smile that creased (使起皱纹) my face — an experience, large or small, that came from living this gift called   60  .
41．A. mind    B. pretend              C. agree     D. understand
42．A. other    B. rather  C. more     D. less
43．A. news    B. death C. disease     D. cancer
44．A. face    B. accept C. reduce     D. understand
45．A. obstacles    B. reasons C. members    D. patients
46．A. advice    B. promise C. strength    D. attention
47．A. thankful   B. hopeful C. responsible    D. prepared
48．A. nobody    B. everybody C. someone    D. anybody
49．A. memory    B. practice C. teacher     D. enemy
50．A. treasure    B. spend C. overcome   D. calculate
51．A. come to    B. make use of C. think about    D. get on
52．A. available    B. impossible C. distant     D. important
53．A. as well as    B. instead of C. regardless of   D. except for
54．A. hated    B. imagined C. completed    D. quit
55．A. apply    B. explain C. matter     D. appear
56．A. because    B. while C. if     D. although
57．A. stories    B. parties C. struggles    D. celebrations
58．A. running into    B. running after C. coming across    D. coming true
59．A. Absolutely not B. Maybe not C. Of course    D. Not exactly
60．A. dream    B. love C. life     D. expectation
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