Practice 1 Directions: Read the texts from a newspaper article in which five people talk about where they played when they were children. For questions 1 to 5, match the name of each people (1 to 5) to one of the statements (A to G) given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. Peter: My favorite childhood play area was the back garden. Back in the days when I was growing up on a large housing estate, the ‘goals’ would be a pair of garage doors or two jackets laid out in the garden. I would spend hours kicking a ball about with my dad, learning how to control, dribble or kick it. Simon: The playground was quite small The floor was covered with flat bricks and there were many that were cracked or broken or missing, and a few weeds struggled through. It was totally enclosed on one side by the school and on the other by high brick walls. It was more like a prison yard--on top of the walls was a layer of concrete into which pieces of broken glass had been stuck. After school was finished my friends and I would climb a lamppost outside the school and sit on top of the wall, slowly breaking off the bits of glass. Alan: I come from an area of terraced houses, pavements and streets. There were no gardens. My first school was Prince’s Street Primary and the room in which I received my first lessons had large, folding glass doors that opened onto a small playground that had grass, bushes and flowers. My amazement at seeing these items, which are normal to most of the world, has stayed with me all my life. Nick: I was strictly forbidden from the obvious playground--a long, overgrown ditch running through waste ground, mainly built to take away the rain. It was irresistible to us local schoolchildren. Its charm, compared with the surrounding tennis courts, football pitches and farmland, was purely because it was out of bounds. That area was truly where I grew up, more than in the rest of the little town’s correct and neat suburbia, where my house was. Julle: Unitl I was twelve I was brought up on airforce camps and each camp had a small playground in the middle of the houses. It was always a great meeting place and I remember sitting with my friends on the swings many evenings until dark. You would often go out and swing for hours until someone else came out. I always liked swinging. Now match each of the people (1 to 5) to the appropriate statement. Note: there are two extra statements. Statements
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1.A 主要意思是说作者童年的时候最喜欢做的是在自己家的后花园跟爸爸踢球,球门很简陋。对照七个选项,只有A的选项与文意一致。 2.F 文章讲的是一个简陋的小操场,高墙上有碎玻璃片。作者写到“After school was finished my friends and I would climb a lamppost outside the school and sit on top of the wall,slowly breaking off the bits of glass. ”所以操场是不安全的。再对照七个选项,也只有F项与文意相符。 3.D 文章先说了自己住的地方很拥挤,没有花园。然后写到自己的小学、小学教室外面的小操场,后面又说“My amazement at seeing these items…has stayed with me all my life”,意思就是说自己的童年是在教室周围度过的,故选D。 4.G 文章第四段讲自己成长的地方是被禁去的露天操场--水沟,又提到说水沟周围有网球场、足球场等体育设施,故选G。 5.C 最后一段文章最后一句说“I always liked swinging”,意思就是说作者喜欢“the feeling of flying”,故选C。