专题13 散文精选类-备战2019年中考英语提分必背美文100篇

海伦 • 凯勤作为一个盲聋哑的残疾人，祈望拥有三天的光明去感受这个世界，使她熟悉身边的一切，她想看到的事物实在是太多太多了，然而这却只是一个很美很美的梦。 Three Days to See(Excerpts) ①All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. ②But always we were interested in discovering just how the hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not criminals whose 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? ③Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule 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 constan