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Several years ago, while attending a communication course, I experienced a most unusual process. The instructor asked us to list ___1___ in our past that we felt ___2___ of, regretted, or incomplete about and read our lists aloud.
This seemed like a very ___3___ process, but there’ s always some ___4___soul in the crowd who will volunteer. The instructor then ___5___ that we find ways to ___6___ people, or take some action to right any wrong doings. I was seriously wondering how this could ever ___7___ my communication.
Then the man next to me raised his hand and volunteered this story: “Making my ___8___, I remembered an incident from high school. I grew up in a small town. There was a Sheriff ___9___ of us kids liked. One night, my two buddies and I decided to play a ___10___ on him.
After drinking a few beers, we climbed the tall water tank in the middle of the town, and wrote on the tank in bright red paint: Sheriff Brown is a s.o.b.(畜生). The next day, almost the whole town saw our glorious ___11___. Within two hours, Sheriff Brown had us in his office. My friends told the truth but I lied. No one ___12___ found out.”
“Nearly 20 years later, Sheriff Brown’s name ___13___ on my list. I didn’t even know if he was still ___14___. Last weekend, I dialed the information in my hometown and found there was a Roger Brown still listed. I tried his number. After a few ___15___, I heard, “Hello?” I said, “Sheriff Brown?” Paused. “Yes.” “Well, this is Jimmy Calkins.”
“And I want you to know that I did it?”Paused. “I knew it!” he yelled back. We had a good laugh and a ___16___ discussion. His closing words were: “Jimmy, I always felt bad for you ___17___ your buddies got it off their chest, but you were carrying it ___18___ all these years. I want to thank you for calling me...for your sake.”
Jimmy inspired me to ___19___ all 101 items on my list within two years, and I always remember what I learned from the course: It’s never too late to ___20___the past wrongdoings.
1. A. something        B. anything          C. somebody        D. anybody
2. A. ashamed         B. afraid            C. sure             D. proud
3. A. private          B. secret             C. interesting        D. funny
4. A. foolish         B. polite            C. simple           D. brave
5. A. expected          B. suggested          C. ordered           D. demanded
6. A. connect with      B. depend on        C. make apologize to   D. get along with
7. A. improve         B. continue          C. realize            D. keep
8. A. notes                    B. list                    C. plan                   D. stories
9. A. any               B. most             C. none             D. all
10. A. part                    B. game             C. trick             D. record
11. A. view           B. sign             C. attention          D. remark
12. A. also               B. even              C. still              D. ever
13. A. appears         B. considers          C. presents           D. remembers
14. A. angry         B. happy            C. doubtful         D. alive
15. A. words           B. rings             C. repeats           D. calls
16. A. cold                B. plain             C. nervous          D. lively
17. A. in case         B. so long as        C. unless             D. because
18. A. around           B. out                          C. on               D. away
19. A. build up        B. make up          C. clear up          D. give up
20. A. regret           B. forgive          C. right            D. punish

阅读下面短文,用英语简要回答文后所给的五个问题,并写在答题卡规定位置。

(注意:每题答案不超过10个单词)

Last year I worked in Nepalfor three months. When I had a few days off, I decided to go into the jungle(丛林). I asked a Nepalese guide, Kamal Rai, to go with me.

We started our trip at six in the morning with two elephants carrying our things. It was hot, but Kamal made me wear shoes and trousers to protect me from snakes. In the jungle there was a lot of wildlife, but we were trying to find tigers. We climbed onto the elephants’ backs to see better. However, it is unusual to find tigers in the afternoon because they sleep in the daytime.

Then, in the distance, we saw a tiger, and Kamal told me to be very quiet. We moved nearer and found a dead deer. This was the tiger’s lunch! Suddenly, I started to feel very frightened.

Then the tiger jumped out suddenly, about five hundred kilos and four meters long. It caught Kamal’s leg between its teeth, but I managed to pull Kamal away. One of our elephants ran at the tiger and made it go back into the grass, so we quickly ran away to let the tiger eat its lunch. That night it was impossible to sleep!

1.Where did the writer want to go during the days off?

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2.When did they start their trip?

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3.Why did they climb onto the elephants’ backs?

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4.What did they find when they moved nearer?

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5.Who drove the tiger away?

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As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. “The woods” was our part-time address, destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friends house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, he’s out in the woods, ” with a tone(语气) of airy acceptance. It is similar to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I’m looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even “away from his desk.” For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while.

We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring(探索). Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Indian burial mound.

Often we got “lost” and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited regularly—tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.

It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us had reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence(青春期). In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that we really were rather big to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.

1.The author and his friends were often out in the woods to _______.

     A. spend their free time

         B. play golf and other sports

     C. avoid doing their schoolwork

         D. keep away from their parents

2.What can we infer from Paragraph 2 ?

     A. The activities in the woods were well planned.

     B. Human history is not the result of exploration.

     C. Exploration should be a systematic activity.

     D. The author explored in the woods aimlessly.

3.The underlined word “skeptical” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.

               A. calm  B. doubtfu  C. serious  D. optimistic

4.How does the author feel about his childhood?

     A. Happy but short.  B. Lonely but memorable.

     C. Boring and meaningless  D. Long and unforgettable.

 

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