When I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. My parents took me by train or by car to a hotel by the   26  . All day, I seem to remember, I played on the sands with strange   27   children. We made houses and gardens, and   28   the tide destroy them. When the tide went out, we climbed over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.
In those days the sun seemed to shine always   29  and the water was always warm. Sometimes we left beach and walked in the country,   30  ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were sweets in one’s pockets or good places where one could   31   ice creams. Each day seemed a life-time.
 32  I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good  holiday is much the same as it was.  I   33    like the sun and warm sand and the sound of   34   beating (拍打) the rocks. I no longer wish to   35   any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets.   36   , I still love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.
Sometimes I  37   what my ideal(理想的) holiday will be like when I am  old .  38   I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about  39  who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves  40  on too many ices creams.

A．sea B．lake C．mountain D．river

A．moved B．excited C．anxious D．nervous

A．made B．brought C．watched D．heard

A．gently B．hardly C．brightly D．carefully

A．in need of B．in search of C．in place of D．in praise of

A．sell B．make C．buy D．offer

A．When B．Although C．If D．But

A．almost B．perhaps C．still D．often

A．waves B．wind C．hands D．feet

A．destroy B．fix C．use D．build

A．But B．However C．Otherwise D．Besides

A．wonder B．feel C．understand D．believe

A．All B．Each C．Both D．Every

A．girls B．boys C．children D．grown-ups

A．happy B．tired C．sad D．sick