In their country August 31st is a national holiday,________ everybody dances in the streets.

A.which         B.as        C.when          D.because

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.

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

   A. avoid doing their schoolwork

   B. play gold and other sports

   C. spend their free time

   D. keep away from their parents

What can we infer from Paragraph 2?

   A. The author explored in the woods aimlessly.

   B. Human history is not the result of exploration.

   C. Exploration should be a systematic activity.

   D. The activities in the woods were well planned.The author explored in the woods aimlessly.

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

   A. doubtful

   B. calm

   C. serious

   D. optimistic

How does the author feel about his childhood?

   A. Long and unforgettable.

   B. Lonely but memorable.

   C. Boring and meaningless.

   D. Happy but short.

—Mom, Tom asked me to play football with him. Shall I go out now?

—______. Be careful and don’t play in the street.

A. Yes,you will  B. With pleasure   C. Of course not   D. Sure

Every year, a great many visitors come to visit the temple ______ the 12th century, ______ has brought a large income.

   A. dating from; which                   B. dated from; which

   C. which dates from; that        D. which dated from; which

.The invention of_________ paper was a great contribution to________human civilization.

A.a;a                            B.the;the                      C./;/                             D.the;/

Linda’s parents died when she was a baby and was _________by her aunt.

A.brought out               B.raised up                   C.grown up                  D.brought up

We did not expect the plan we had made very carefully for them ______ so coldly.

A.refused                            B.to refuse                    C.to be refused              D.refusing

I have nothing to be done，so I can help you with your lessons.

—Oh,Mary!You should do your work instead of sitting here watching TV.?

—__________?

A.That’s not a very good idea.?

B.TV produces good influence on children.?

C.What makes you say that??

D.You said TV was educational.?

— I suppose I’ll have to ask someone else to see me off .

    — I’m afraid so . I would see you off if I      ,but I       .

A. would ; won’t     B. could ; can’t   C. might ; needn’t    D. should ; mustn’t