I was brought up in a small town in the countryside. Growing up in the countryside offered lots of advantages for young people. The only problem was that we often got into trouble as we made up stories that we 1 out around town. I can remember a ridiculous 2 in particular.

  One day on the way back from school, we came up with the 3 idea to make out that we were pirates(海盗) looking for 4 . My best friend Tom said that he made out a 5 in the distance. We all ran to hide and 6 a number of rocks to use for ammunition(弹药)the ship as we got ready to put together our plan of 8   . We were ready to set off on our 9   . We 10 went along the path until we were face to face with our 11    ―the postman's truck!The postman was dropping off a package at Mrs Brown's house, so we 12 his truck. At that point, we 13 didn't have any idea about what we were going to do next. The radio was playing in the cab(驾驶室) ,so we 14 it down to discuss what we would do next. Jack was all for 15 the engine and getting away with the stolen 16  !Of course, we were just children,17 the idea of actually making off with a truck was too much for us to believe. We all broke out in 18 laughter at the thought of us driving down the road in this stolen postal truck. 19 for us,the postman came running towards us shouting, "What are you kids up to?" Of course, we all got out of that truck as quickly as we could and 20 down the road.

Many years have passed but the experience remains fresh in my memory. 

(   ) 1.A. acted   B. looked   C. carried   D. sent

(   ) 2.A. lesson   B. person   C. film   D. adventure

(   ) 3.A. boring   B. brilliant    C.common   D. dangerous

(   ) 4.A. continents   B. chances   C. treasures   D. towns

(   ) 5.A. truck   B. position   C. game   D. ship

(   ) 6.A. bought   B. discovered   C. gathered   D. threw

(   ) 7.A. with   B. in   C. beyond   D. against

(   ) 8.A. action   B. life   C. study   D. drive

(   ) 9.A. report   B. class   C. delivery   D. attack

(   ) 10.A. always   B. seldom   C. slowly   D. directly

(   ) 11.A. friend   B. enemy   C. task   D. house

(   ) 12.A. got off   B. got into   C. ran after   D. went behind

(   ) 13.A. hardly   B. nearly   C. roughly   D. really

(   ) 14.A. turned   B. took   C. got   D. put

(   ) 15.A. repairing   B. checking   C. protecting   D. starting

(   ) 16.A. mail   B. money   C. paper   D. ammunition

(   ) 17.A. because   B. unless   C. and   D. but

(   ) 18.A. nervous   B. pleasant   C. easy   D. painful

(   ) 19.A. Unluckily   B. Luckily   C. Happily   D. Strangely

(   ) 20.A. wandered   B. ran   C. drove   D. looked

  Modern inventions have speeded up people's lives amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour,aircraft cross the world inside a day,while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts(吹喊) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.

  All this saves time,but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind in another time zone. Again,spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, ac?cording to some scientists;too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains,a con?sequence we do not like to think about.

  However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.

  There was a time when some people's lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there;their lives went on at a much gentler pace,and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so,we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faced:they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern ma?chinery has freed people from that primitive existence.

(   ) 1. The new products become more and more time-saving because .

     A. our love of speed seems never ending

    B. time is limited

    C. the prices are increasing high

    D. the manufacturers boast a lot

(   ) 2. What does "the days" in Paragraph 3 refer to?

     A. Imaginary life    B. Simple life in the past

    C. Times of inventions    D. Time for constant activity

(   ) 3. What is the author's attitude towards the modern technology?

A. Critical    B. Objective    C. Optimistic    D. Negative

(   ) 4. What does the passage mainly discuss?

     A. The present and past times

    B. Machinery and human beings

    C. Imaginations and inventions

    D. Modern technology and its influence

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