71.
What can we infer from the passage?
A. Active learning is less important.
B. Passive learning is not found among
scholars.
C. Active learning occurs more frequently.
D. Passive learning may not be reliable.
E
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(语气)
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(探索). 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 has reached
seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence(青春期).
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 were 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.
