My wife and I had just finished the 150-mile trip home from our daughter’s college. It was the first time in our life that we would __36__ for any length of time. We wondered how other people had __37__ it.
Later in bed, I __38__ the time I started college. My father had driven me, too. My mother had to stay home to keep the __39__ from getting into the crops. I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to __40__ college.
The truck was slow, and I was glad. I didn’t want to get to the city __41__. I shook hands with my father in the truck and he didn’t say a word. But I knew he was going to make a little __42__. He finally said, “I never went to college and __43__ of your brothers did. I can’t say don’t do this or that, because everything is __44__ and I don’t know what is going to come up, but I think things will __45__. When you get a job, be sure to be honest and work hard.” I knew that soon I would be __46__ in the big town and I would be __47__ the life home.
Then my father __48__ the Bible that he had read so often. I knew that he would miss it but I must __49__ it. He just said, “This can help you __50__ you will let it.”
When I finished school I took the Bible __51__ to my father. But he said he wanted me to __52__ it.
Now, too often, I remember. It would have been so __53__ to give it to my daughter when she got out of the car. But I didn’t. My father could give me only a Bible, but now I don’t really believe that I gave her half as __54__ as my father gave me. So the next morning I __55__ up the book and sent it to her. I wrote a note “This can help you.” I said, “if you will let it.”

【小题1】
A.worryB.separateC.stayD.travel
【小题2】
A.leftB.stoodC.enjoyedD.tried
【小题3】
A.wastedB.spentC.rememberedD.killed
【小题4】
A.policemenB.workersC.cattleD.birds
【小题5】
A.graduate fromB.go away toC.set outD.set up
【小题6】
A.very lateB.far awayC.too soonD.once again
【小题7】
A.speechB.livingC.promiseD.progress
【小题8】
A.someB.oneC.noneD.all
【小题9】
A.impossibleB.differentC.difficultD.favorite
【小题10】
A.work outB.die outC.hold outD.break out
【小题11】
A.happyB.aloneC.freeD.lost
【小题12】
A.losingB.spendingC.missingD.living
【小题13】
A.brought aboutB.brought outC.brought upD.brought down
【小题14】
A.refuseB.markC.followD.take
【小题15】
A.ifB.unlessC.butD.though
【小题16】
A.downB.upC.backD.away
【小题17】
A.keepB.returnC.postD.sell
【小题18】
A.popularB.strangeC.readyD.nice
【小题19】
A.muchB.manyC.farD.good
【小题20】
A.setB.turnedC.gaveD.wrapped

When I was a boy, I belonged to the Boy Scouts(童子军),so I used to go camping every summer, and once something happened which I have never been able to explain.
We were camping in a place above a river. After arriving, we all rushed down to the river and had a swim. Standing by the river, we noticed that it was surrounded by cliffs (悬崖).If someone wanted to reach the river at this point, he had to walk past our camp.
Several days later, the scoutmaster had to be away for a day. That afternoon, we had supper early. We were sitting round the fire, eating and talking, when a man walked past and went down towards the river. We all felt that this man looked very strange, but, because each of us was afraid of looking very stupid, no one said anything.
We ate rather slowly, taking as long as possible. After finishing, we collected our plates together so that we could take them to the river where we always washed them.  But no one moved towards the river, we stood looking at each other ashamed. Then all shouting at once, we began talking about the man who had walked past us. We agreed how strange he looked and we wondered what he could be doing by the river. We knew that he could only return by passing through our camp.
An hour passed. Then one of the boys suggested we should creep(悄悄移动)down by the river so that we could see what the man was doing. Moving very slowly and keeping in the shadow, we crept down towards the bank. One boy climbed a tree so that he could see everything clearly. He called to us that there was no one there, so we ran down to the bank, looking everywhere carefully. We could not understand where the man had gone.
When it got dark, we went back to our camp feeling bewildered. We told the scoutmaster what had happened in the evening. Smiling, he doubted that we had seen the man, but finally suggested we go and look again. We did, but there was no one there.
Many years have passed, but I still remember it as if it were yesterday. What did we see? I do not know.
【小题1】The writer in the text mainly tells us _________.

A.the story of his childhoodB.a strange camping experience
C.about a stranger by the riverD.about a good place for camping
【小题2】Why did the boys eat their supper slowly?
A.They wanted to delay going to the river bank.
B.They were waiting for their scoutmaster.
C.They had a supper earlier than usual.
D.They were talking while eating.
【小题3】The underlined word “bewildered” in the text probably means _________.
A.ashamedB.nervous
C.unable to understandD.eager to know something
【小题4】When he heard what had happened, the scoutmaster __________.
A.realized who the man was
B.started to worry about the man
C.went back to look for the can
D.felt it hard to believe the boys
【小题5】The writer still remembers the event because________.
A.the boys acted foolishly
B.the camping place is beautiful
C.there has been no explanation for the event
D.he particularly enjoyed his camping that summer.

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Ever wonder what President  George “Dubya” Bush will be doing once he leaves the White House? Well.we wondered too and voted for him to run a hot dog stand.in the city that never sleeps New York!

Life’s tough in the Stone Age.Fortunately our man Sam has got your brain to help him out! He’s got to find food,make weapons,survive tigers,and keep his girlfriend Lucy happy! So let’s get prehistoric and help Sam in this crazy adventure.

Hit the snow slopes with this snowboarding game.Perform special skills on your snowboard to collect points.Pump air into your stride by timing your jumps carefully while negotiating 3 killer kickers.Whatever you do — Have fun!

Add logic,fun and load of color and what do you get? The crazy cube!  And we promise you, it’s the craziest cube you’ll come across this side of the universe.Rack your brains crazy in this totally addicting puzzle game and beat the colored cube!

Put your hard hat on…because we’re going under construction! This addictive puzzle game will have you constructing for hours! Build beautiful towers using colorful building blocks.

Fight to conquer the universe in this strategic space simulation game.Play as a space commander and protect your imperial star base from enemies.Become the most powerful air force and fulfill your one and only mission:complete space dominance!
请阅读以下的人员资料,然后匹配人员与相关游戏。
【小题1】Sammy is a girl with a logical mind.She would like to play the kind of games that can not only practice her intelligence but Call challenge her memory as well.
【小题2】Amy has always been interested in politics and loves to play jokes on politicians.As a result,any game that concerns government officials would interest her.
【小题3】Jack is a student who is keen on architecture.He has problem in concentrating himself on a piece of work.He hopes to find a game that can suit his interest and help him focus his mind on it.
【小题4】William is a sports fan who would like to take up extreme sports.But he isn’t allowed to try such kind of dangerous sport,SO he could only find some relevant games to play.
【小题5】Teddy is a film lover.After seeing the film The Star Wars,he imagined that he could one day be a commander,leading his soldiers to protect his planet from being invaded.

As you dash outdoors in the middle of winter, you might make it halfway down the block before realizing that your ears are freezing because you forgot your hat.

Now, scientists have shown that even though you’ve had an apparent memory lapse(丧失), your brain never forgot what you should have done.

Memory works mainly by association. For example, as you try to remember where you left your keys, you might recall you last had them in the living room, which reminds you that there was an ad for soap on television, which reminds you that you need soap, and so on. And then, as you’re heading out of the door to buy soap, you remember that your keys are on the kitchen counter. Your brain knew where the keys were all along. It just took a round-about way to get there.

Now, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies are studying associative memory in monkeys to figure out just how this complicated process works.

First, the researchers trained a group of monkeys to remember arbitrary(任意的) pairs of symbols. The researchers showed the monkeys one symbol(cold weather) and then gave them the choice of two other symbols, one of which (a hat) would be associated with the first. A correct choice would earn them a sip of their favorite juice.

Most of the monkeys performed the test perfectly, but one kept making mistakes.

“We wondered what happened in the brain when the monkey made the wrong choice, although it apparently learned the right pairing of symbols,” said study leader Thomas Albright.

Albright and his team observed signals from the nerve cells in the monkey’s inferior temporal cortex (ITC), an area of its brain used for visual pattern recognition and for storing this type of memory.

As the monkey was deciding which symbol to choose, about a quarter of the activity in the ITC was due to the choice behavior.

Meanwhile, more than half the activity was in a different group of nerve cells, which scientists believe represent the monkey’s memory of the correct symbol pairing, and surprisingly, these cells continued to work well even when the monkey chose the wrong symbol.

“In this sense, the cells ‘knew’ more than the monkeys let on in their behavior,” Albright said. “Thus, behavior may vary, but knowledge endures.”

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Your brain remembers what you forget.

B. Activity is a round-about way to memory.  

C. Monkeys have better memory than us.

D. Your brain may forget something, but not always.

2. The example of the keys and soap is given to explain the relationship between _______.

A. memory and our daily life            B. memory and television ads

C. memory and association               D. memory lapse and human brain

3.The researchers believe the monkey that made the wrong choice ________.

A. had some trouble with its nerve system             B. failed to see the objects well

C. had the worst memory                 D. also knew the correct answer

4. The underlined word “endures” may be best replaced by __________.

A. increases        B. remains      C. disappears       D. improves

 

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