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【英语卷（解析）·2015届重庆市巴蜀中学高三上学期第一次模拟考试（201501）】请阅读下面两篇短文，掌握大意，然后从36~55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
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On my way to work every day, I drive down a street lined with pine trees. One tree in particular 36 my attention. It must have suffered some 37 . Part of its trunk grew nearly parallel to the ground, and then in an effort to 38 its own course of life, the trunk took a 90 degree turn 39 to stand tall and stretch toward the sun.
Each day as I drove by, I saw this bent but determined tree and I would be 40 . It was a reminder to me that 41 I may not have had the best start in life, I could change 42 in the parts of my life at any time.
I was planning to stop one day to get a perfect 43 of my kindred-spirit (志趣相同的) tree. But that week I was busy. After that week, I still didn’t take any action. Every time I drove by the tree I would 44 myself, “Tomorrow, I’ll stop tomorrow to take one.” Then one day, as I drove by “my” tree, I glanced over, and much to my 45 , I found a sawed-off stump (树桩) where that tree had stood. I had 46 my plan until “tomorrow” and tomorrow proved to be too 47 .
What have you been putting off? What would you do today if you knew you would 48 have the opportunity to do it again? Why not do those things that you have been putting off until tomorrow?
36. A. caught B. paid C. fixed D. escaped
