Driving to a friend's house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of

Driving to a friend's house on arecent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just abovemy friend’s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking aboutwhat a pity it was that most city people? Myself included? Usually miss sights likethis because we spend most of our lives indoors.

Myfriend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moonmeant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.

Iknow the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to themountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forestrest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires(篝火) outside every night, andindoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during ourtrip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a lightshone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest placesI have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the fullmoon, which struck me deeply.  

Todayour lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We havetelevisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens andair-conditioners, cars, computers.

Strugglingthrough traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spentindoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. ThereI will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains. I may becomean old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out mylife in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silentnight and touch the moon.

1. Thebest title for the passage would be______.

A.Touched by the moon

B.The pleasures of modern life

C.A bottomless well of silence

D.Break away from modern life 

2. The writer felt sorry for himself because________.

A.there was too much pollution

B.he seldom enjoyed the fullest moon outsides

C.he didn’t adapt to modern inventions

D.there were too many accidents on the road

3.What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle ofnorthern India?

A.No modern equipment      B. Complete silence.

C.The nice moonlight        D. The highmountains

4. Modern things (Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to______.

A.show that the writer likes city life very much

B.tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life

C.explain that people have fewer chances to enjoy nature

D.show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them

5. The author wrote the passage to_______.

A. express the feeling of returning to nature

B. show the love for the moonlight

C. advise modern people to learn to live

D. want to share the idea of longing formodern life

试题答案

【答案】

1.A2.B3.C4.C5.A

【解析】略