阅读下面材料, 从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
（A）
New York is 3 hours ahead of California,
but it does not make California slow.
Someone graduated at the age of 22,
but waited 5 years before finding a good job!
Someone became a CEO at 25,
and died at 50.
While another became a CEO at 50,
and lived to 90 years.
Someone is still single, while someone else got married.
Obama retires at 55,
but Trump starts at 70.
Absolutely（当然）everyone in this world works based on their Time Zone.
People around you might seem to ▲ you,
some might seem to behind you.
But everyone is running their own RACE, in their own TIME.
Don't envy them or mock（嘲笑）them.
They are in their TIME ZONE, and you are in yours!
Life is about waiting for the right moment to act.
So, RELAX.
You're not LATE.
You're not EARLY.
You are very much ON TIME, and in your TIME ZONE Destiny set up for you.
16. The passage is probably a ___________.
A. story B. poem C. diary D. drama
17. What is the writer's attitude to his life?
A. Life is about waiting for the right moment.
B. Life needs energy and courage.
C. Life if full of all kinds of smells.
D. Life needs kinds of chance.
18. The following phrase "___▲___" is the best for the blank（空白处）in the passage.
A. look at B. make fun of C. wait for D. go ahead of
BAD
（A）
New York is 3 hours ahead of California,
but it does not make California slow.
Someone graduated at the age of 22,
but waited 5 years before finding a good job!
Someone became a CEO at 25,
and died at 50.
While another became a CEO at 50,
and lived to 90 years.
Someone is still single, while someone else got married.
Obama retires at 55,
but Trump starts at 70.
Absolutely（当然）everyone in this world works based on their Time Zone.
People around you might seem to ▲ you,
some might seem to behind you.
But everyone is running their own RACE, in their own TIME.
Don't envy them or mock（嘲笑）them.
They are in their TIME ZONE, and you are in yours!
Life is about waiting for the right moment to act.
So, RELAX.
You're not LATE.
You're not EARLY.
You are very much ON TIME, and in your TIME ZONE Destiny set up for you.
16. The passage is probably a ___________.
A. story B. poem C. diary D. drama
17. What is the writer's attitude to his life?
A. Life is about waiting for the right moment.
B. Life needs energy and courage.
C. Life if full of all kinds of smells.
D. Life needs kinds of chance.
18. The following phrase "___▲___" is the best for the blank（空白处）in the passage.
A. look at B. make fun of C. wait for D. go ahead of
BAD
