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【题目】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 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 acceptance.It's 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.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 Italian 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.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 fiends were often out in the woods to .

A. spend their free time

B. play gold 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】How does the author feel about his childhood?

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

C. Boring and meaningless. D. Long and unforgettable.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】D

【3】A

【解析】文章主要讲述了作者小时候玩耍的树林对作者以及作者朋友们的意义。文章讲述了作者与朋友在树林中所从事的活动—探索，以及以后随着年龄的增长，不再去那片树林。

【1】细节理解题。根据“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.”还是孩子的时候，我和朋友们在树林里待很长时间。这片树林是我们课外休闲的地方，目的地，借口或托辞。可知作者与他的朋友们在小树林度过他们的闲暇时光。故选A。

【2】推理判断题。根据“Our explorations,though,seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way.”虽然我们的探索与历史上的相比不够系统：有些东西通常都是在沿途中突然出现的。可知，作者以及朋友们的探索是无目的的。故选D。

【3】推理判断题。根据“Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks,shooting frogs,picking blackberries,digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Italian burial mound.”我们待在树林里，投掷石块，射击青蛙，采摘黑莓，挖掘那些我们认为是意大利人的坟冢。可知作者与朋友们过得很愉快。根据“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.”在这片树林里，我们的休闲时光结束了，我们中的一些人上了七年级开始了青春期的坎坷。可知在树林中的时光又是短暂的。故选A。