题目内容：

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项选项的标号涂黑。

Every day on the way to work I drive down a street lined with pine trees. One tree in particular ____ my attention. It must have suffered some severe ____. Part of its trunk grew nearly parallel(平行) to the ground, and then in an effort to ____ its own course of life, the trunk took a 90 degree turn ____ to stand tall and stretch（伸展） toward the sun.

This tree became a ____ for me. Each day as I drove by, I saw this bent but determined tree and I would be ____. It was a reminder to me that ____ I may not have had the best start in life, I could change ____ in the paths of my life at any time.

I was planning to stop one day to get a perfect ____ of my kindred-spirit(志趣相同的) tree. But that week I was ____. After that busy week, I still didn’t take any action. Every time I drove by the tree I ____ tell myself, “Tomorrow, I’ll stop tomorrow to take one.” Then one day, as I drove by, I glanced over and, much to my ____, I found a lonely sawed-off stump(树桩) ____ the symbolic tree had stood. It was gone! I had ____ my plan until “tomorrow” and tomorrow proved to be too ____.

A picture of a tree is not of great ____. But my lesson rang through clearly ____ I found out one of my colleagues had been diagnosed with stage-four cancer. He may no longer have many ____.

What have you been putting off? What would you do if you knew you would ____ have the opportunity to do it again? Why not do those things ____ that you have been putting off until tomorrow?

1.A. paid       B. fixed        C. caught       D. escaped

2.A. damage      B. influence   C. experience   D. defeat

3.A. follow     B. change       C. design       D. imagine

4.A. applying   B. attempting   C. happening     D. learning

5.A. shelter    B. signal       C. symbol       D. sign

6.A. interested B. satisfied   C. encouraged   D. educated

7.A. even if    B. as if        C. in case      D. if only

8.A. purpose     B. plan        C. mind         D. direction

9.A. glance    B. picture       C. view           D. knowledge

10.A. spared   B. occupied      C. worried        D. bored

11.A. could    B. would         C. should         D. might

12.A. pleasure B. surprise      C. delight       D. relief

13.A. where   B. which         C. what          D. when

14.A. taken off  B. cut off    C. put off       D. called off

15.A. far      B. busy          C. empty          D. late

16.A. benefit  B. achievement C. value          D. disappointment

17.A. when     B. before       C. because       D. unless

18.A. lives   B. opportunities C. lessons        D. tomorrows

19.A. surely   B. never         C. ever           D. almost

20.A. at times B. from time to time C. at one time D. in time