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 friends 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 is 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 Indian 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(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 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.

The author and his friends were often out in the woods to _______.

     A.spend their free time               B.play golf and other sports

     C.avoid doing their schoolwork  D.keep away from their parents

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.

The underlined word “skeptical” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.

     A.calm       B.doubtful   C.serious      D.optimistic

How does the author feel about his childhood?

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

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

Everyone wants to win a first-place blue ribbon, to be the best in something. Even kids in Kindergarten want that blue ribbon. In sports, I was never a blue-ribbon person. In a race, I was always  36 . In baseball I was likely to be  37  on the head or drop the ball. During the spring of my kindergarten year, our class had a field trip to a park in a town about twenty miles away. Making that drive now is no big  38  but when you’re six and you’ve lived in a town of 300 people all your life, going to a big town of a couple of thousand people is really something.

I don’t remember too much about it. But there was one that I will never forget —the __39__ race. The parents tied our feet together. One little boy got me for a  40  . He was the second most   41 boy in our class so he usually won at everything and I knew that with me tied to him he didn’t have a chance. And I’m sure he knew he was in trouble. The gun sounded and we were off. Some couples were falling and stumbling all around us,  42   we stayed on our feet and made it to the other side.  43  , when we turned around and headed back for home, we were in the lead! Only one couple had a chance to win, and they were a good several yards behind us.

A few feet from the finish line, disaster struck: I tripped and fell. We were   44  enough that my partner could have easily dragged me across the finish line and won. But he didn’t. Instead he stopped,   45   down and helped me up — just at the other couple crossed the finish line. As a result, we received a small red ribbon for coming in second.

I still remember that moment when the young boy decided that helping a friend get on her feet was more important than winning a blue ribbon. And 13 years later, I still have that little ribbon because it’s a   46   that a friend like this boy is one who really   47  .  

1.                A.last            B.first            C.quick D.successful

 

2.                A.touched        B.felt            C.hit   D.beaten

 

3.                A.question        B.event          C.one  D.deal

 

4.                A.one-legged      B.two-legged      C.three-legged   D.four-legged

 

5.                A.partner         B.helper          C.supporter D.competitor

 

6.                A.tallest          B.youngest        C.athletic   D.handsome

 

7.                A.but            B.therefore       C.however  D.and

 

8.                A.Obviously       B.Unbelievably     C.Secretly  D.Undoubtedly

 

9.                A.strong          B.brave          C.clever    D.close

 

10.               A.lay            B.slowed         C.moved    D.reached

 

11.               A.warning        B.reminder       C.gift   D.notice

 

12.               A.depends        B.counts         C.supports   D.worthy

 

 

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