Mr North is now old and very forgetful. One summer day, he decided to   1   his grandchildren to a seaside town for a holiday. The town was about a three hours train ride   2  . In order to make the holiday more   3   for his grandchildren, he kept the name of the town a  4  . But when they arrived at the station, the door man had forgotten the   5   of the town himself.  6  a friend of  7  was at the station at that time. He helped to take care of the  8  while Mr North went back home to find out   9   he was going.

Mr North was   10   to see Mr North again so soon. But she wins pleased when she understood   11   he come back. She wrote the name of the   12   on a piece of paper and sent her hushed off. Then some   13   later, she was greatly surprised to see Mr North outside 14  . What was the matter now? Mr North had forgotten   15   he had left the children.

1.     A. take      B. give       C. have         D. make

2.     A. farther    B. away       C. over         D. off

3.     A. interested  B. careful     C. interesting    D. excited

4.     A. report     B. present    C. lesson        D. secret

5.     A. people     B. road      C. way          D. name

6.     A. Luckily    B. Surely     C. Finally        D. Usually

7.     A. his        B. him       C. himself        D. wife

8.     A. Tickets    B. children    C. train          D. name

9.     A. when      B. where     C. how          D. whether

10.     A. happy     B. angry      C. surprised      D. sorry

11.     A. as         B. because    C. why          D. how

12.     A. friend      B. town      C. station        D. children

13.     A. months     B. weeks      C. minutes      D. days

14.     A. soon       B. more       C. again         D. too

15.     A. who        B. where     C. when          D. whether

Mr Ellis is very old. He has seen many changes in his hometown.

He knows that things are different now. But he never forgets the old days. He likes to talk about them. He often talks about his favorite birds , the robins (一种小鸟---鸫).“When I was a boy, these houses were not here. There were wide fields and tall trees. Every spring the robins would come. Thousands of them would fly up to the north from the south. They spent the winter in the south. Some would build their nests(巢) in the trees near our houses. Then people started to cut down trees, and built more houses. The robins stopped coming. They couldn’t build their nests near our houses because there were no trees.”

“ Now there are too many houses and too many roads. There are no places for the robins. They don’t come any more.”

62.Mr Ellis often talks about__________.

A. his old house      B. the old days    C. his life now      D. his family

63.The robins spent the winter in__________.

A.the south         B.the west        C.the north          D.the east

64.__________ built the nests in the trees.

A.Mr Ellis        B.Some people       C.The robins      D.Some dogs

65.From the passage we can know that___________.

A.Mr Ellis likes his new life now.

B.there were many houses there in the old days.

C.the robins can make houses without trees.

D.Mr Ellis is not happy with the changes there.