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All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long

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问题     All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.
    Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets?
    Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent role to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of "Eat, drink, and be merry". But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.
    In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
    Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
选项 A、To prove that life is full of twist and turns.
B、To raise a question to us, regarding the author’s topic.
C、To persuade us not to do anything illegal.
D、To highlight the importance of health.
答案B
解析 考查首段的写作目的。做这种题目不可以就事论事，要从全篇的整体去考虑，放在篇章中去分析作者的写作目的，否则就会出现以偏概全的分析，比如A只是看到了作者提到的主人公遇到意外就说是为了证明生活充满坎坷(twist and turns)；C项只看到作者提到了罪犯condemned criminals就认为是劝读者守法；D项只看到原文提到的情况包括病危的人，就说是倡导健康的重要，都是属于这种类型的错误；作者的真正目的在二段首句可以看到“Such stories set us thinking，wondering...”直接阐明了作者的目的，举的各种例子和进行的铺垫，都是为了提起我们的思考，进而转入文章主题的讨论。
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