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Driving to a friend's house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just
above my friend's rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that
most city people, myself included, usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living-in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then.
It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of
northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water.
Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to
its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in
them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well
of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibreglass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers,
electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before
long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the
mountains and perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my
trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night
and touch the moon.
1. The best 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 modem life
2. The writer felt sorry for himself because _____.
A. there was too many pollution
B. he failed to see the fullest moon
C. he didn't adapt to modern inventions
D. there were many accidents on the road
3. What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?
A. No modem equipment.
B. Complete silence.
C. The nice moonlight.
D. The high mountains.
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 modem life
C. explain that people have less 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 modem people to learn to live
D. want to communicate longing for modern life
