[简答题]Our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide. We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no expense to preserve life. But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live. A day or an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited. Our life is a brief span measuring some seventy or eighty years in all. But nearly one third of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be spent over our meals; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merrymaking; some in watching over the sickbeds of our nearest and dearest relatives. Now if all these years were to be reduced from the term over which our life extends, we shall find about twenty or thirty years at our disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can never willingly waste a single moment of his life.

[简答题]Our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide. We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no expense to preserve life. But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live. A day or an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited. Our life is a brief span measuring some seventy or eighty years in all. But nearly one third of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be spent over our meals; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merrymaking; some in watching over the sickbeds of our nearest and dearest relatives. Now if all these years were to be reduced from the term over which our life extends, we shall find about twenty or thirty years at our disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can never willingly waste a single moment of his life.

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Interruption, more surely than anything else, kills conversation. The best of talkers interrupt (1) in conversation. However, the (2) interruption of the habitual interrupter and the unintentional, conscious interruption of the (3) talker are two very different things. All habitual interrupters are totally unaware that they continually (4) speeches of their converses and literally knock their very words back (5) their mouths.
Inability to (6) is responsible for one phase of interruption to conversation. It is the (7) eye that tells one’s words have not been heard. "The person next to you must be (8) by my conversation, for it is going into one of his ears and out of the other," said a talker to an inattentive dinner-companion whose absent-minded and (9) replies had been snapping the thread of the thought (10) it grew intolerable.
Because it often (11)
A. for
B. to
C. with
D. on