I can never remember feeling good about myself. From the time I was a little child I always felt nobody ___1_____ me—not my parents, my brothers, my sisters, nobody. I never had any friends, anyone I could tell everything to. I liked to ____2_____ friends, but nobody seemed to care for me. I also had a lot of problems with my _____3_______. Until grade nine I was a head taller than everybody else. My classmates always called me names like Pole or Long-Legs. I felt the others were ____4_____ me.

  Things weren't much better at home. The only way I could _____5_____ my problems when I was a little child was to cry a lot. My mother didn't quite ____6____ my feelings and the _____7_____ annoyed(使生气)her and made her nervous.

  Nobody in the family ever made an effort to understand me or even to talk to me. My family isn't exactly what you'd call warm. There's never any expression of _____8______. I'm sixteen and I can't remember my mother or father ever kissing us.

  Things started getting really bad in high school. I changed schools. In the old school ______9______ I didn't have any friends, I still had classmates to go out with; in the new school I had no one. At that age everybody's in groups. I felt out of it. I tried, but I couldn't _____10______ with the others. I didn't like them. I thought something was wrong with me. They thought I was strange.

1.A. talked      B. liked       C. spoke to     D. told

2.A. have      B. make       C. find       D. meet

3.A. weight     B. name       C. height      D. study

4.A. shouting to   B. playing with     C. agreeing with    D. laughing at

5.A. look at     B. deal with        C. work out     D. meet with

6.A. understand   B. hear             C. learn         D. like

7.A. shouting    B. laughing     C. talking      D. crying

8.A. smile     B. voice      C. anger      D. love

9.A. even though   B. since      C. because     D. as though

10.A. study     B. speak      C. walk       D. get on


For six hours we shot through the landscape of the Karoo desert in South Africa. Just rocks
and sand and baking sun. Knowing our journey was ending, Daniel and I just wanted to remember all we had seen and done. He used a camera. I used words. I had already finished three notebooks and was into the fourth, a beautiful leather notebook I’d bought in a market in Mozambique.
Southern Africa was full of stories. And visions. We were almost drunk on sensations. The roaring of the water at Victoria Falls, the impossible silence of the Okavango Delta in Botswana . And then the other things: dogs in the streets, whole families in Soweto living in one room, a kilometre from clean water.
As we drove towards the setting sun, a quietness fell over us. The road was empty -- we  hadn’t seen another car for hours. And as I drove, something caught my eye, something moving   next to me. I glanced in the mirror of the car; I glanced sideways to the right, and that was when I saw them. Next to us, by the side of the road, thirty, forty wild horses were racing the car, a cloud of dust rising behind them -- brown, muscular horses almost close enough to touch them, to   smell their hot breath. I didn’t know how long they had been there next to us.
I shouted to Dan: “Look!”, but he was in a deep sleep, his camera lying useless by his feet.   They raced the car for a few seconds, then disappeared far behind us, a memory of heroic forms   in the red landscape. When Daniel woke up an hour later I told him what had happened.
“Wild horses?” he said. “Why didn’t you wake me up?”
“I tried. But they were gone after a few seconds.”
“Are you sure you didn’t dream it?”
“You were the one who was sleeping!”
Typical, he said. “The best photos are the ones we never take.”
We checked into a dusty hotel and slept the sleep of the dead.
【小题1】 During their journey in Africa, the two travelers______.

A.made friends with local residents
B.complained about the poor living conditions
C.enjoyed the sunset in the Karoo desert most
D.recorded their experiences in different ways
【小题2】 What did Daniel think when he woke up and was told what had happened?
A.He always missed out on the best thing.
B.He had already taken beautiful pictures.
C.A sound sleep was more important.
D.The next trip would be better.
【小题3】 What is the passage mainly about?
A.How to view wildlife in Africa.
B.Running into wildlife in Africa.
C.Tourist attractions in southern Africa.
D.Possible dangers of travelling in the desert.

For six hours we shot through the landscape of the Karoo desert in South Africa. Just rocks

and sand and baking sun. Knowing our journey was ending, Daniel and I just wanted to remember all we had seen and done. He used a camera. I used words. I had already finished three notebooks and was into the fourth, a beautiful leather notebook I’d bought in a market in Mozambique.

Southern Africa was full of stories. And visions. We were almost drunk on sensations. The roaring of the water at Victoria Falls, the impossible silence of the Okavango Delta in Botswana . And then the other things: dogs in the streets, whole families in Soweto living in one room, a kilometre from clean water.

As we drove towards the setting sun, a quietness fell over us. The road was empty -- we  hadn’t seen another car for hours. And as I drove, something caught my eye, something moving   next to me. I glanced in the mirror of the car; I glanced sideways to the right, and that was when I saw them. Next to us, by the side of the road, thirty, forty wild horses were racing the car, a cloud of dust rising behind them -- brown, muscular horses almost close enough to touch them, to   smell their hot breath. I didn’t know how long they had been there next to us.

I shouted to Dan: “Look!”, but he was in a deep sleep, his camera lying useless by his feet.   They raced the car for a few seconds, then disappeared far behind us, a memory of heroic forms   in the red landscape. When Daniel woke up an hour later I told him what had happened.

“Wild horses?” he said. “Why didn’t you wake me up?”

“I tried. But they were gone after a few seconds.”

“Are you sure you didn’t dream it?”

“You were the one who was sleeping!”

Typical, he said. “The best photos are the ones we never take.”

We checked into a dusty hotel and slept the sleep of the dead.

1. During their journey in Africa, the two travelers______.

A.made friends with local residents

B.complained about the poor living conditions

C.enjoyed the sunset in the Karoo desert most

D.recorded their experiences in different ways

2. What did Daniel think when he woke up and was told what had happened?

A.He always missed out on the best thing.

B.He had already taken beautiful pictures.

C.A sound sleep was more important.

D.The next trip would be better.

3. What is the passage mainly about?

A.How to view wildlife in Africa.

B.Running into wildlife in Africa.

C.Tourist attractions in southern Africa.

D.Possible dangers of travelling in the desert.

 

阅读理解。
     For six hours we shot through the landscape of the Karoo desert in South Africa. Just rocks and sand
and baking sun. Knowing our journey was ending, Daniel and I just wanted to remember all we had seen
and done. He used a camera. I used words. I had already finished three notebooks and was into the
fourth, a beautiful leather notebook I'd bought in a market in Mozambique.
     Southern Africa was full of stories. And visions. We were almost drunk on sensations. The roaring of
the water at Victoria Falls, the impossible silence of the Okavango Delta in Botswana. And then the other
things: dogs in the streets, whole families in Soweto living in one room, a kilometre from clean water.
      As we drove towards the setting sun, a quietness fell over us. The road was empty-we hadn't seen
another car for hours. And as I drove, something caught my eye, something moving next to me. I glanced
in the mirror of the car; I glanced sideways to the right, and that was when I saw them. Next to us, by the
side of the road, thirty, forty wild horses were racing the car, a cloud of dust rising behind them-brown,
muscular horses almost close enough to touch them, to smell their hot breath. I didn't know how long they had been there next to us.
     I shouted to Dan: "Look!", but he was in a deep sleep, his camera lying useless by his feet.
    They raced the car for a few seconds, then disappeared far behind us, a memory of heroic forms in the
red landscape. When Daniel woke up an hour later I told him what had happened.
     "Wild horses?" he said. "Why didn't you wake me up?"
     "I tried. But they were gone after a few seconds."
     "Are you sure you didn't dream it?"
     "You were the one who was sleeping!"
      'Typical, he said. "The best photos are the ones we never take."
      We checked into a dusty hotel and slept the sleep of the dead.
1. During their journey in Africa, the two travelers________
A. made friends with local residents  
B. complained about the poor living conditions
C. enjoyed the sunset in the Karoo desert most
D. recorded their experiences in different ways
2. What does the phrase "heroic forms" in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Racing cars.      
B. Wild horses.          
C. Eye-catching locals.  
D. Running dogs.
3. What did Daniel think when he woke up and was told what had happened?
A. He always missed out on the best thing.  
B. He had already taken beautiful pictures.
C. A sound sleep was more important.        
D. The next trip would be better.
4. What is 'the passage mainly about? 
A. How to view wildlife in Africa.            
B. Running into wildlife in Africa.
C. Tourist attractions in southern Africa.    
D. Possible dangers of travelling in the desert.

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