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 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.

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

4. How does the author feel about his childhood?

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

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

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    This morning I was about to go to school after breakfast when suddenly

I found there was something wrong with Tom ,  ______ is my                  1.__________

younger brother. He ______（躺） on the floor and blood came out      2.__________

of his leg. _______（看到）this, I was so scared that I ran to the        3 .__________

telephone immediately,  t_________ to call 120. Unfortunately,             4.__________

the telephone didn’t work without any r_________. I had to run                  5.__________

out of the house to find help from our neighbors. At that time I saw

Mrs Smith, a lady living next door. Since she was p   _（非常）         6.__________

old and not good at h__________, she couldn’t catch                    7.__________

_____I was shouting about. I had no                                        8.__________

________ but to run to a public telephone booth and made                 9.__________

an emergency call right away. Before long an ambulance came            

as fast as it __________ in time. My brother was sent to                  10.__________

the hospital at last.

Experts say that Longtan hydropower project, China’s third largest, will be _________ great help to _______ flood control and improving condition for shipping.

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

—— I really appreciate you looking after my baby when we were away for my friend’s wedding yesterday.

—— _______________.

A．Don’t mention it.                        B．Please don’t be so thankful

C．With pleasure                           D．All right

Bungee jumping is an adventurous sport, popular with young adults, __ courage matters more than strength.

A．where         B．that           C．of  which        D．whose

— What are you going to do next?

—To write a science story about outer space ___ by Science and Technology Press.
A．published           B．being published         C．to be published         D．publishing

—Haven't I told you that I like the beef well done?

—Yes, but I _____ it longer than I usually do.
A．was cooking              B．will cook               C．cooked                  D．had cooked

---I'm going to Guilin next week. Do you have anything ____ there?

---No, but thank you all the same.

A．to be taken              B．to take            C．taking             D．taken

It is suggested that a study plan _____ right now.

A．is made               B．is to be made            C．be made              D．had been made

On arrival, the famous movie star found himself ______ by the enthusiastic fans.

A．to be surrounded                 B．surrounded       

C．being surrounded                D．having surrounded