“If Mum finds that I’m going to the beach, I’ll be in trouble.” I said to myself.

I walked   51   and tried not to make any noise. A few minutes later, I got out of the house and started   52   to the bus stop quickly. After half an hour, I was at the   53   with my friends, Jimmy and Bobby. We began to play volleyball   54  . Suddenly, Bobby   55   the ball too hard and it flew into the sea. I thought my swimming skill was   56   , so I decided to get the ball.

I jumped into the water and started swimming   57   the ball. However, after about ten minutes, I got cramp （抽筋）in my leg and I   58   swim. I tried hard to control (控制) my body and after several minutes I   59  . I began to swim back to the beach. But soon I felt too   60   to swim any further.

Luckily, a boat soon reached and   61   me. When I woke up, I was in a(n)   62   . After a few minutes, my parents walked in with angry and   63   faces. They were angry with me for my going out of the house   64   they were glad because the doctor said I was not badly hurt.

I will never forget that terrible   65   and never want to do it again.

(   ) 51. A. quickly         B. easily         C. loudly            D. slowly

(   ) 52. A. walking        B. driving        C. running           D. riding

(   ) 53. A. house         B. beach          C . station           D. school

(   ) 54. A. angrily        B. sadly          C. quietly            D. happily

(   ) 55. A. held          B. threw          C. hit               D. caught

(   ) 56. A. good         B. poor           C. new              D. kind

(   ) 57. A. over          B. towards (朝着)  C. under             D. with

(   ) 58. A. needn’t       B. must           C. couldn’t           D. could

(   ) 59. A. failed        B. lost            C. hurt               D. succeeded

(   ) 60. A. lazy         B. tired           C. short              D. strong

(   ) 61. A. missed       B. saved          C. followed           D. left

(   ) 62. A. hospital      B. shop           C. boat               D. office

(   ) 63. A. excited      B. relaxed         C. worried            D. bored

(   ) 64. A. and         B. so             C. or                 D. but

(   ) 65. A. experience   B. news           C. matter             D. story

Some people have very good memories and can easily learn quite long poem（诗歌）by heart. Some people have  51  memories and can only  52  things that they have said again and again.

The  53  English writer Charles Dickens said that he could walk down  54   street in London and then tell you the name of every shop on  55  sides of the street. Great men in the world have wonderful memories.

A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns  56 language by remembering what he hears  57  he is a small child. Some children live with their parents in foreign countries and they seem  58  two languages as  59  as one. In school it is not so easy to learn foreign languages  60  students have little time  61   it and they are busy with other subjects as well.

A man's mind is quite like a camera but it  62  photos of what we see and it can also take photos of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photo  63  a camera there is much work  64  before the photo is finished and ready to show to our friends.  65  the same way there is much work to do before we can keep a picture forever in our mind.

1. A. wonderful     B. better           C. poor         D. badly

2.A. speak          B. study            C. know         D. remember

3.A. nice           B. beautiful        C. famous       D. kind

4.A. any            B. some         C. many         D. the

5.A. every          B. each         C. both         D. all

6.A. her            B. his          C. one’s        D. their

7.A. when           B. since            C. if               D. as soon as

8.A. to keep        B. to get           C. to learn     D. to take

9. A. badly         B. hard         C. easily           D. happily

10.A. because       B. why          C. what         D. when

11.A. like          B. for          C. to           D. in

12.A. leaves            B. takes            C. gets         D. receives

13. A. in               B. by           C. with         D. through

14. A. to do            B. to have      C. to start         D. to stay

15.A. In                B. On           C. With         D. As