When I was 17，I read a quote that went something like：“If you live each day as if it were your last，someday you’ll most certainly be right” It made a deep 1 on me, and since then, for the past 33 years，I have 2 in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life， 3 I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a 4 ，I know I need to change something． Remembering that I’ll be 5 soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big 6 in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death， 7 only what is truly important. About a year ago I was 8 with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs 9 order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die．I 10 with that diagnosis all day． 11 ，at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is 12 with surgery．I had the surgery and I’m fine now. 13 wants to die．Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all 14 ．No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of 15 ．It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to 16 for the new．Right now the new is you．But someday not too 17 from now，you will gradually become the old and be cleared away．Sorry to be so dramatic，but it is quite true. Your time is 18 ，so don’t waste it living someone else’s 1ife．Don’t be 19 by dogma (教条) —which is living with the results of other people’s thinking．Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner 20 ．And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart. 小题1: A．joke B．curse C．decision D．impression 小题2: A．looked B．seen C．found D．1ost 小题3: A．might B．should C．would D．could 小题4: A．hurry B．1ine C．row D．moment 小题5: A．successful B．dead C．rich D．frustrated 小题6: A．choices B．fortune C．impressions D．apologies 小题7: A．proving B．confirming C．leaving D．telling 小题8: A．treated B．cured C．diagnosed D．round 小题9: A．on B．for C．at D．in 小题10: A．met B．1ived C．did D．got 小题11: A．But B．However C．Therefore D．So 小题12: A．incurable B．fatal C．curable D．changeable 小题13: A．No one B．Someone C．Anyone D．Everyone 小题14: A．want B．avoid C．escape D．share 小题15: A．destination B．science C．1ife D．disease 小题16: A．make up B．make way C．make our D．make for 小题17: A．distant B．long C．short D．away 小题18: A．enough B．rare C．limited D．1ost 小题19: A．wasted B．cheated C．excited D．trapped 小题20: A．love B．voice C．direction D．confusion