Earlier this morning I e-mailed an old friend, Mark. We have been out of touch for 12 years, but the
36 is a wonderful thing. Finding his e-mail address
37 less than a minute. He is working on his doctoral paper in western America.
Mark and I met at a summer
38 that we both attended. I went every year from the time I was 8 or 9 until I was 15. I don’t
39 exactly, but I think Mark was there for as many years as I was.
We lived close to each other and
40 saw each other around the campsite, but not often. Mostly we stayed together for a week or two in the
41 and wrote letters back and forth during the rest of the first few years. I still have all of his letters in a box somewhere. I come across them occasionally and
42 to sit down and read through them, but I never have. He was a
43 and precious friend to me, and I am deeply
44 that we have drifted so far apart.
Mark was a very kind and incredibly bright and funny
45 . He loved Monty Python — I mean he was a fanatic(狂热者), and could
46 entire movies from memory. He was one of those kids who
47 such a unique and powerful mind
48 they never quite fit into the main stream of life.
49 Mark, who I believe realized that, never seemed to care about it. When I knew that Mark was working on his
50 (on a highly intellectual and fairly mysterious and difficult topic), I thought, “Well yes, of course.” He is just where I would
51 him to be.
I wonder if he will write me back. I wonder if he will be
52 by where I am. I wonder whether he and I can be
53 again, or whether these years have left us with
54 in common. I wonder whether he can ever be the man I
55 , or only remain the boy I knew.
| 小题1: | | A．world | B．Internet | C．life | D．fax |
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| 小题2: | | A．cost | B．paid | C．took | D．spent |
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| 小题3: | | A．train | B．meeting | C．camp | D．holiday |
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| 小题4: | | A．remind | B．recall | C．remember | D．realize |
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| 小题5: | | A．occasionally | B．regularly | C．usually | D．commonly |
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| 小题6: | | A．neighborhood | B．group | C．holiday | D．summer |
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| 小题7: | | A．manage | B．advise | C．intend | D．prefer |
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| 小题8: | | A．likely | B．friendly | C．coldly | D．dear |
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| 小题9: | | A．regret | B．sorry | C．excited | D．satisfied |
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| 小题10: | | A．teenager | B．adult | C．reader | D．camper |
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| 小题11: | | A．see | B．recite | C．write | D．read |
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| 小题12: | | A．gained | B．had | C．got | D．deserved |
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| 小题14: | | A．Because | B．Though | C．Since | D．But |
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| 小题15: | | A．book | B．novel | C．paper | D．lesson |
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| 小题16: | | A．let | B．lead | C．expect | D．allow |
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| 小题17: | | A．shocked | B．surprised | C．disappointed | D．excited |
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| 小题18: | | A．classmates | B．partners | C．enemies | D．friends |
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| 小题19: | | A．everything | B．something | C．nothing | D．anything |
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| 小题20: | | A．value | B．know | C．dislike | D．admire |
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