2017中考英语阅读理解训练：My Turn

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　　2017中考英语阅读理解训练：My Turn

　　One of the things I always believe is that no matter how bad something is , you can take something positive out of it . The one time I wasn?t sure of that was on September 11.

　　I usually wake up at 6:30 or 7:00 in the morning . That day , I happened to wake up earlier . I turned on the TV and I saw that a plane had crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center . My first reaction was that it was a terrible accident . Then I saw another plane fly into the South Tower and I realized that I was witnessing an act of terrorism.

　　My wife and I spent the day watching the terrible pictures over and over again . When I watched family members looking for their loved ones , the pain in their eyes was something I would never forget . I couldn?t understand how something this terrible could have happened . It wasn?t until a few weeks after September 11 that I began to see that perhaps some good did come from this tragedy . People seem different now , more understanding , more tolerant . Little things that seemed to be such a trouble before are no longer big things . Personally , I am more tolerant than I was . I realize life is too short , and too precious , to let myself get worried over small things . I?ve learned also that you can?t take things for granted . Things change in the blink of an eye . People go to work and don?t come back . One moment they?re living and the next minute they?re not . And , it doesn?t matter who you are , there is nothing you can do about it . We never know when our time here will be over , so we all need to make the most of every minute we have .

　　You try to learn from what happened . You can?t be used up by it . You can?t live by it . All you can do is just live .

　　注：crash 撞击 reaction 反应 witness 目击 tragedy 悲剧 tolerant 宽容的 precious 珍贵的 take … for granted 认为……是当然的

　　52. The word “positive ”in the passage probably means _________.

　　A. terrible

　　B. bad

　　C. good

　　D. real

　　53. What did the writer see after he turned on the TV that morning ?

　　A. A fire starting.

　　B. A plane flying.

　　C. A terrible accident.

　　D. An act of terrorism.