27、During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape. When I traveled across to the other side of the island （島嶼）, I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, “Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day.”

So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole （洞） in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe （獨木舟）. Next, I had to get it down to the sea．How silly I was! Why didn’t I think before I began work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn’t move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn’t move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.

That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea．The island was my home now, not my prison, and I was just happy to be alive.  A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.

My life was still busy from morning to night. There were always things to do or to make. I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange, it is true, but they kept me dry in the rain.

I kept food and tools （工具） at both my houses, and also wild goats （山羊）. There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to take food from me, and soon I had goats’ milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my corn （玉米） fields. And so many years went by.

1. The purpose of making a canoe on the island was to _____________.

A．escape in it                     B．get to the other side of the island

C．use it for food                         D．go around the island

2. To survive, the writer did the following EXCEPT _____________.

A．keeping goats for milk            B．making clothes from animal skins

C．working in the cornfields         D．going fishing in the sea

3. Why didn’t the writer use his first canoe?

A．Because it was too small for a long journey.  

B．Because it was too heavy to get down to the sea.

C．Because there was something wrong with it.

D．Because the writer was busy building a second house.

4. From the story, we can learn that _____________.

A．the writer tried to make his stay comfortable on the island

B．the writer had nothing to do on the wild island

C．the writer tried to escape in the second canoe, but failed

D．the writer was in prison on the island, losing his freedom

26、There are over 800 boarding （寄宿） schools in the UK with students from home and foreign countries. Boarding schools started hundreds of years ago in the country. But the earliest boarding schools were set up for white, rich boys only. Now both boys and girls can go to boarding schools from the age of 7 to 18.

What to do

In the UK, boarding schools have three terms in a school year, with about 13 weeks in each term. Students study and live together. They can’t go outside if they are not allowed to. In some schools, each student has his or her subject plan. Besides the usual classrooms and laboratories, the boarding schools have lots of other facilities for their students, including music rooms, boats, swimming pools, cinemas and theatres. Most boarding schools have a “l(fā)ight out” time. So when it’s time to go to bed, all the lights in the bedrooms are turned off. There are house-masters to take care of students all the time, especially after school hours.

What to wear

Nearly all students at boarding schools wear a school uniform. Boys usually wear a shirt and a tie, and girls wear a white blouse, sometimes also a tie and a skirt. As students get older, the rules become less strict.

In the UK, boarding schools provide students with delicious food. They can choose to have a full English breakfast or simply bread. They can also choose between a meal with no meat and another meal at lunch and dinner. And there is always self-service for salad （沙拉）, other side dishes and a dessert. Students can also make themselves something to eat at any time in a kitchen, or drink tea or have a snack between meals.

1. Which of the following is TRUE according to （根據(jù)） the passage?

A．Only white children were allowed to attend the earliest boarding schools.

B．Students in a boarding school are looked after only after school hours.

C．As students get older, the rules about wearing school uniforms become stricter.

D．Students can have different activities in a boarding school.

2. Which is the best title for the last paragraph?

A．What to eat      B．When to eat           C．Where to eat          D．How to eat

3. The underlined word ‘facilities’ means _____________.

A．教師          B．設(shè)施                   C．活動                   D．課程