完形填空。 Start Today 'What can you do when you have done nothing but mess up your whole  life  long?' These were the words I heard when I 1 the TV the other day. They were coming  from one of  the  talk shows 2 are so popular on TV  these days.  I started  to  turn the channel but  the words  I had 3 made me stop  for a moment.  I 4 the speaker of  them. He couldn't have been more  than 18 years old, but already he was writing off (认为……已失败) his life as a useless waste. I wanted to shout at him:' You're not 5 yet!' It is 6 sad that so many people cannot get beyond (摆脱) their pasts and live 7 the present. There are so many people like that talk show guest. There are people still  in  their  teen years 8 that their lives are over. There are people in their twenties who already think they have 9 the boat to success and happiness. Th ere are people in their thirties and forties who sit around complaining that life has passed them by.  I want  to shout  to  them all:' Wake up! You're still 1 0 ! What have you done today?' If you want a happy  life, you can't dwell on (细想、纠缠于) your past 11 . If you want joy and love  in your life, you have  to choose  them  today. God gives us a new chance at  life every  time we wake up in the morning. It is up to us to seize it. Today 12 be  the beginning of a new  life for each of us. We can choose  joy right now. We can share love today. We can  live  in delight starting at this moment. It doesn't matter how hard our past has been. Our present can be full of joy and our future can be full of 13 .  It doesn't matter  if we are eight 14 eighty--we can still make our  lives 15 . Life isn't over until your last heartbeat. Start today, then, to make your heart beat with joy, love, and light. (     ) 1. A. turned down (     ) 2. A. when (     ) 3. A. heard (     ) 4. A. looked up (     ) 5. A. death (     ) 6. A. so (     ) 7. A. at (     ) 8. A. think (     ) 9. A. taken (     ) 10. A.alive (     ) 11. A. mistake (     ) 12. A. must (     ) 13. A. pain (     ) 14. A. and (     ) 15. A. wonder B. turned off B. that B. found B. looked after B. dead B. so a B. with B. thinking B. caught B. living B. mistakes B. mustn't B. happiness B. to B. wondering C. turned on C. one C. seen C. looked for C. die C. such C. in C. thinks C. missed C. lively C. wrong C. can't C. sadness C. or C. wondered D. turned up D. what D. listened to D. looked at D. died D. such a D. to D. to think D. lost D. lovely D. ideas D. can D. challenge D. between D. wonderful