And so for three days and nights. No difference—just the same thing. But the next day I went exploring around the island. I was boss of it; it all belonged to me, and I wanted to know all about it; but mainly I wanted to spend the time. I found plenty of strawberries and green summer grapes; and the green blackberries were just beginning to show.
Well, I went fooling along in the deep woods till I judged I wasn't far from the foot of the island. I had my gun along, but I had shot nothing; it was for protection. About this time I almost stepped on a good-sized snake, and it moved quietly and smoothly through the grass and flowers, and I after it, trying to get a shot at it. I clipped along, and all of a sudden I bounded right on to the ashes of a camp fire t hat was still smoking.
My heart jumped up among my lungs. I never waited for to look further, but uncocked my gun and went sneaking back on my tiptoes as fast as I could. Every now and then I stopped a second among the thick leaves and listened, but my breath came so hard that I couldn't hear anything else. I moved quietly along another piece further, then listened again; and so on, and so on. If I see a stump (树桩) , I took it for a man; if I stepped on a stick and broke it, it made me feel like a person had cut one of my breaths in two and I only got half, and the short half, too.
There was no time to be fooling around. When getting to the camp, I got all my traps into my canoe again to have them out of sight. I put out the fire and threw the ashes around to look like an old last year's camp, and then climbed a tree.
I suppose I was up for two hours; but I didn't see or hear anything—I only thought I heard and saw as much as a thousand things. Well, I couldn't stay up there forever; so at last I got down, but I kept in the thick woods and on the lookout all the time. All I could get to eat was berries and what was left over from breakfast.
56. The underlined part “put in time” in the second paragraph probably means
A. kill the time B. take the time C. employ the time D. waste the time
57. Why did the boy always carry gun with him wherever he went?
A. To show off his gun. B. To play with it for fun.
C. To protect himself. D. To hunt some animals for food.
58. How did the boy feel when he saw the ashes of a camp fire that was still smoking?
A. Surprised. B. Excited. C. Frightened. D. Puzzled.
59. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The boy brought with himself a tent.
B. The boy felt a bit lonely on the island.
C. The boy was surely the only person on the island at that time.
D. The boy might be bitten by some animal when the story happened.
B
Africa is home to a wide variety of religions and cultures, and this colorful variety is reflected in its diverse and colorful weddings traditions.
If any one wedding tradition might be said to be indicative of the African continent it would be the importance of family. An African wedding is, more than anything, the bringing together of two people as a single family, or the combining of two families or even the mixture of two tribes into one family unit. The concept of family is one of the unifying ideas of the African continent.
There are more than l, 000 cultural units in Africa and each culture, each tribe has its own wedding and marriage traditions, many of which can trace their origins back hundreds or even thousands of years.
Depending on which part of Africa you are in, wedding ceremonies can be elaborate, some lasting many days. Often huge ceremonies are held during which many couples are united at the same time.
In Sudan and other areas along the Nile, a man must pay his wife's family in sheep or cattle for the loss of their daughter's labor in support of the family. A wife may cost a man as many as 30 to 40 head of cattle. Often it is difficult to pay the family yet still have enough cattle left to support his new wife.
In Somalia a man is allowed to have as many as four wives if he can support them all, and it is not uncommon for a girl to be engaged before she is even born.
Bright festive colors, song, dance, and music are vital elements of many African wedding ceremonies. Common to all wedding ceremonies is the concept of transitioning (过渡) between childhood and adulthood. In any African cultures children are encouraged to marry as young as 13 to 15 years of age, as soon as they have reached physical adulthood.
Divorce is rare in African marriages. Problems in a marriage are often discussed with both families and solutions found. Often entire villagers join in to help a couple find solutions to their problems and keep a marriage from failing.
Marriage is sacred (神圣的) the world over, and that is definitely true in Africa, no matter which region or which culture you come from, and no matter what your religious beliefs. In fact, many cultures have a special totem (图腾) that is designed to remind a couple that cultural and tribal differences must be allowed for in order to make a marriage succeed. X k b 1 .c o m
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