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【题目】As a child, I used to hang about with my friends in the woods. “The woods” was our part-time _____, destination, purpose and excuse. If I went to a friend’s house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, he’s out in the woods,” with a tone of airy _____. It’s _____ 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 ____ “away from his desk”. For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just a(n) ____ to do whatever we feel like for a while.

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

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

It was in a tree, too, ____ our days of fooling around in the woods came to a（n） ____. By then some of us has reached seventh grade and had begun the _____ ride of adolescence. 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 _____ to all three of us at the same time that we were really rather_____ to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.

【1】A.dream B. address C. school D. happiness

【2】A. acceptance B. anger C. depression D. surprise

【3】A. popular B.same C. similar D. unknown

【4】A.still B. just C. ever D. even

【5】A.result B.aim C. excuse D. cause

【6】A.difficult B.active C. strange D. popular

【7】A. mostly B. traditionally C. rarely D. equally

【8】A.otherwise B. though C.therefore D.and

【9】A. planting B. searching C. picking D. carrying

【10】A. reminded B. warned C. convinced D. persuaded

【11】A. how B.what C. where D. who

【12】A.controversial B. skeptical C.lucky D.guilt

【13】A. hold B. lift C. carry D. gain

【14】A. among B. over C.besides D. except

【15】A. permanently B.occasionally C. regularly D. cautiously

【16】A. what B. how C. where D. that

【17】A. effect B. conclusion C. end D.agreement

【18】A. relaxing B. rough C. spiritual D. considerate

【19】A.hit B.referred C.turned D. occurred

【20】A. naughty B. ugly C. big D. lazy

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】C

【4】D

【5】C

【6】D

【7】A

【8】B

【9】C

【10】D

【11】C

【12】B

【13】A

【14】D

【15】C

【16】D

【17】C

【18】B

【19】D

【20】C

【解析】本文描述了小时侯玩耍的“树林”对与“我”和朋友们的意义。主要讲述了我们在“树林”中所从事的活动——探索，以及之后随着年龄的增长，不再去那里的过程。

【1】考查名词辨析和上下文理解。A.dream 梦想，B. address地址，C. school学校，D. happiness快乐, 根据下文的destination, purpose and excuse.可知这里是指树林是我们兼职的地址，故选B。

【2】考查名词辨析和上下文理解。A. acceptance接受，B. anger生气，C. depression沮丧，D. surprise惊讶, 根据下文It’s _____ to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me可知妈妈是接受的语气，故选A。

【3】考查形容词辨析和上下文理解。这句话的意思是：这就和人们说某人在高尔夫球场的语气相似，A. popular流行的，B.same同样的，C. similar相似的，D. unknown不为人知的,故选C。

【4】考查副词辨析和上下文理解。A.still仍然，B. just 仅仅，C. ever曾经，D. even甚至，这里表示递进关系,故选D。

【5】考查名词辨析和上下文理解。这句话的意思是：到树林里面只是我们的借口，A.result结果，B.aim目的，C. excuse借口，D. cause起因，故选C。

【6】考查形容词辨析和上下文理解。这句话的意思是：以前探索的想法要比现在受欢迎，A.difficult 困难的，B.active积极的，C. strange奇怪的，D. popular受欢迎的,故选D。

【7】考查副词辨析和上下文理解。这句话的意思是：历史上似乎大部分是关于开拓者的，A. mostly大部分，主要的，B. traditionally传统地， C. rarely罕见地，D. equally平等地,故选A。

【8】考查副词辨析和上下文理解。这句话的意思是：然而，我们的探索没有以前的人那么系统，.A.otherwise否则，B. though虽然，C.therefore 因此，D.and并且,故选B。

【9】考查动词辨析和上下文理解。 A. planting种，B. searching搜寻，C. picking采摘， D. carrying携带,这里表示采摘黑莓，故选C。

【10】考查动词辨析和上下文理解。这句话的意思是：我们挖掘一个被说服是意大利古墓的东西. A. suggested 建议，B. warned警告，C. convinced相信，D. persuaded说服,故选D。

【11】考查疑问词辨析和上下文理解。这句话的意思是：当我们迷路了，我们会爬上一棵树，看看我们在哪里.A. how怎么，B.what 什么，C. where哪里，D. who谁,故选C。

【12】考查形容词辨析和上下文理解。 A.controversial 有争议的的，B. skeptical怀疑的，C.lucky幸运的，D.guilt 有罪的，内疚的, 根据下文the topmost branches are usually too skinny to ___48__ weight,可知对这种说法要怀疑，故选B。

【13】考查动词辨析和上下文理解。这句话的意思是： 顶部的树枝太细了不能承担重量，A. hold承受，B. lift 举起，C. carry携带，运送，D. gain增加 ,故选A。

【14】考查介词辨析和上下文理解。这句话的意思是：除了树什么也没有，A. among在……之间，B. over在……上面，C.besides 除了…（还有）， D. except除了…（没有），故选D。

【15】考查副词辨析和上下文理解。这句话的意思是：有四五棵树是我们经常去的，A. permanently永久地，B.occasionally偶尔地，C. regularly 经常地， D. cautiously谨慎地,故选C。

【16】考查强调句和上下文理解。这是强调句， 使用It is+强调部分+that…,故选D。

【17】考查名词辨析和上下文理解。这句话的意思是：我们在树林里面玩耍的日子也是在树枝上结束的，A. effect影响，B. conclusion结果，C. end结尾， D.agreement协议,come to an end结束，故选C。

【18】考查形容词辨析和上下文理解。这句话的意思是： 我们开始了困难的青年人之旅，A. relaxing放松的，B. rough粗糙的，崎岖不平的； 粗鲁的； 狂暴的，汹涌的，C. spiritual精神的，D. considerate 考虑周到的,故选B。

【19】考查动词辨析和上下文理解。这句话的意思是：突然我们三个同时想起我们太大了不能爬树了， occurred to sb,使某人想起，故选D。

【20】考查名词辨析和上下文理解。根据Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.可知作者和朋友都长大了，A. naughty调皮的，B. ugly丑陋的，C. big大的，D. lazy懒惰的，故选C。