During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape. When I traveled across to the other side of the island (岛屿), I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, “Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day.”
So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole (洞) in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe (独木舟). Next, I had to get it down to the sea. How silly I was! Why didn’t I think before I began work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn’t move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn’t move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.
That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea. The island was my home now, not my prison, and I was just happy to be alive.  A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.
My life was still busy from morning to night. There were always things to do or to make. I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange, it is true, but they kept me dry in the rain.
I kept food and tools (工具) at both my houses, and also wild goats (山羊). There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to take food from me, and soon I had goats’ milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my corn (玉米) fields. And so many years went by.
【小题1】 The purpose of making a canoe on the island was to _____________.

During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape. When I traveled across to the other side of the island, I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, “Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day.”

So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe (独木舟). Next, I had to get it down to the sea. How silly I was! Why didn’t I think before I began work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn’t move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn’t move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.

That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea. The island was my home now, not my prison, and I was just happy to be alive. A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.

My life was still busy from morning to night. There were always things to do or to make. I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange, it is true, but they kept me dry in the rain.

I kept food and tools at both my houses, and also wild goats. There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to take food from me, and soon I had goats’ milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my corn fields. And so many years went by.

1.The purpose of making a canoe on the island was to _____________.

A. escape in it                             

B. get to the other side of the island

C. use it for food                           

D. go around the island

2.To survive, the writer _____________.

A. kept goats for milk                       

B. made clothes from animal skins 

C. worked in the cornfields                   

D. did all the above

3.Why didn’t the writer use his first canoe?

A. Because it was too small for a long journey.  

B. Because it was too heavy to get down to the sea.

C. Because there was something wrong with it.  

D. Because the writer was busy building a second house.

4.From the story, we can learn that _____________.

A. the writer tried to make his stay comfortable on the island  

B. the writer had nothing to do on the wild island

C. the writer tried to escape in the second canoe, but failed 

D. the writer was in prison on the island, losing his freedom

During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape. When I traveled across to the other side of the island, I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, “Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day.”

So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe (独木舟). Next, I had to get it down to the sea. How silly I was! Why didn’t I think before I began work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn’t move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn’t move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.

That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea. The island was my home now, not my prison, and I was just happy to be alive. A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.

My life was still busy from morning to night. There were always things to do or to make. I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange, it is true, but they kept me dry in the rain.

I kept food and tools at both my houses, and also wild goats. There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to take food from me, and soon I had goats’ milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my corn fields. And so many years went by.

1.The purpose of making a canoe on the island was to _____________.

A. escape in it                            

B. get to the other side of the island[来源

C. use it for food                          

D. go around the island

2.To survive, the writer _____________.

A. kept goats for milk                      

B. made clothes from animal skins 

 C. worked in the cornfields                          

D. did all the above

3.Why didn’t the writer use his first canoe?

A. Because it was too small for a long journey.  

B. Because it was too heavy to get down to the sea.

C. Because there was something wrong with it.  

D. Because the writer was busy building a second house.

4.From the story, we can learn that _____________.

A. the writer tried to make his stay comfortable on the island  

B. the writer had nothing to do on the wild island

C. the writer tried to escape in the second canoe, but failed 

D. the writer was in prison on the island, losing his freedom

During my last year of junior high school, our teacher, Mrs Debby, gave us a ____1___. I was a hard-working student and I did well in all subjects. I was ____2_____ that I had nailed this test and breezed through (轻松答完) the questions ___3____ I read the last one: ‘What is the ___4____ name of the woman who cleans the school?’

Of course I thought that ___5_____ have been a joke. I saw the cleaning woman every day. She was short and about 50 years old. She had dark hair. But ___6____ would I know her name? I had never talked with her before. In fact, I’d never ___7____ thought about talking to her. I looked at my paper and started to feel rather ___8____. Finally, I handed in my paper, leaving the last one____9___.

Before the quiz (随堂测验) ended, one student asked if the last question would be ___10___ in our grades. “Of course,” the teacher said, “In your life, you will meet many people. They are all ____11___. They deserve (理应得到) your attention and care, even if all you do is to____12___ and say hello.”

I’ve never___13____ that lesson. Everyone deserves my ___14_____ and I should get to know all of the people ___15____ work and live around me. That is, perhaps, the most important lesson of my life. I also later learned that the cleaning woman’s first name was Hannah.

1.                A．match          B．quiz            C．contest   D．game

2.                A．worried        B．excited         C．confident D．nervous

3.                A．until           B．when          C．after D．unless

4.                A．last            B．family          C．full  D．first

5.                A．might          B．must           C．could D．would

6.                A．what           B．when          C．how D．where

7.                A．just            B．nearly          C．even D．almost

8.                A．glad           B．guilty           C．surprised D．lucky

9.                A．unseen         B．unanswered     C．unnoticed D．unchosen

10.               A．counted        B．valued         C．amounted D．regarded

11.               A．patient         B．funny          C．important  D．necessary

12.               A．watch          B．smile          C．talk   D．feel

13.               A．dreamed       B．understood      C．realized   D．forgotten

14.               A．attention       B．love           C．forgiveness D．sorrow

15.               A．whose         B．who           C．which D．whom