We are going on a long train journey. Out of the windows, we can see cars running on nearby highways, children waving at a crossing, cattle grazing（吃草） on a distant hillside, smoke pouring from factories, village houses and city skylines.
But
36 in our minds is the final destination（目的地）. On a certain day at a certain hour, we will
37 into the station. Bands will be playing and flags
38 . Once we get there, so many wonderful dreams will
39 and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a(n)
40 jigsaw（拼圖） puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles（過道）, damning（詛咒） the minutes for waiting, waiting for the station.
“When we reach the
41 , that will be it!” We cry “When I am 18.” “When I
42 a new 450SL Mercedes Benz!” “When I put the
43 kid through college.” “When I have
44 off the debts!” “When I get a promotion（提升）.” “When I reach the age of retirement, I shall live
45 ever after!”
46 , we come to realize that there is no such station as we arrive at once and for all. The
47 joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It
48 leaves us behind.
“Cherish（珍視） the moment” is a good
49 . It is the burdens（負擔） of today that drive us to keep on
50 . And it is the regrets over yesterday that motivate（激發(fā)） us to overcome the
51 and look forward to the future.
So
52 pacing the aisles and counting the miles.
53 , climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot（赤腳） more
54 , swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived
55 we go along. The
station will come soon enough.
小題1:A hidden B faint C deep D buried
小題2:A pull B get C approach D arrive
小題3: A floating B waving C raising D shaking
小題4:A come up B come around C come out D come true
小題5:A divided B separated C completed D united
小題6:A station
B age C target D point
小題7:A borrow B buy C ord
er D rent
小題8:A first B best C last D eldest
小題9:A cut B left C taken D paid
小題10:A happily B fully C anxiously D freely
小題11:A Believe it or not B Sooner or later C Once again D All at once
小題12:A simple B basic C true D final
小題13:A eventually（最后） B accidentally C instantly D constantly
小題14:A motto（箴言） B sentence C concept D slogan（標語）
小題15:A pushing B trying C working D sticking
小題16:A effort B mistake C challenge D fault
小題17:A consider B stop C go on D plan on
小題18:A Besides B Thus C However D Instead
小題19:A often B gently C quickly D slowly
小題20:A if B unless C as D once
s he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a basketball and a walkman（隨身聽）. Mark stopped and helped the boy pick up these things. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry some of his things. As they walked, Mark knew that the boy’s name was Bill, that he loved computer games, basketball and history, and that he was having lots of troubles with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend.
understand that if I killed myself, I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you did a lot more. You saved my life.”