第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
As she lay there in the hospital bed, I stared at her sunken face. Her mouth hung open and a moan (呻吟) escaped every so often, an old woman well beyond her 71 years. In four months this is what she has become—daily exercising, strong willed, world traveling women has been eaten from the inside out by cancer. Four months! It is a shock that’s difficult for me to wrap my brain around. It makes me want to tell everyone I love them.
