As a child, I used to hang about with my friends in the woods. “The woods” was our part-time  _____, 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 of airy _____. It’s  _____ 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  ____ “away from his desk”. For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just a(n)  ____ to do whatever we feel like for a while.
We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring. Exploring was a more  _____ idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be  _____ about explorers. Our explorations, ____, seemed to have less system than the historic ki: something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, _____ blackberries, digging in what we were briefly  _____ was an Italian burial mound(古坟).
Often we got “lost” and had to climb a tree to find out  _____ we were. If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be  _____: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to  _____ weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything  _____ other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited _____ --- tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.
It was in a tree, too, ____ our days of fooling around in the woods came to a（n）  ____. By then some of us has reached seventh grade and had begun the  _____ ride of adolescence. 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  _____ to all three of us at the same time that we were really  rather_____ to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.

A．dream B．address C．school D．happiness

A．acceptance B．anger C．depression D．surprise

A．popular B．same C．similar D．unknown

A．still B．just C．ever D．even

A．result B．aim C．excuse D．cause

A．difficult B．active C．strange D．popular

A．mostly B．traditionally C．rarely D．equally

A．otherwise B．though C．therefore D．and

A．planting B．searching C．picking D．carrying

A．reminded B．warned C．convinced D．persuaded

A．how B．what C．where D．who

A．controversial B．skeptical C．lucky D．guilt

A．hold B．lift C．carry D．gain

A．among B．over C．besides D．except

A．permanently B．occasionally C．regularly D．cautiously

A．what B．how C．where D．that

A．effect B．conclusion C．end D．agreement

A．relaxing B．rough C．spiritual D．considerate

A．hit B．referred C．turned D．occurred

A．naughty B．ugly C．big D．lazy