四、(2025·镇江市句容期中)完形填空。
Living on the island, I never stopped thinking about leaving it. So I decided to make myself a boat. I
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a big tree, and then began to make a long hole in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine boat. Next, I had to get it down to the sea. How
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I was! Why didn't I think before I began to work? Of course, the boat was too heavy. I couldn't move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn't move. I was very
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for a long time after that.
That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a
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boat, but I did not try to go away in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and
I did not want to die in the
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. 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 boat on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second
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there, so I had two homes.
My life was still busy from morning to night. There were always things to do or to
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. I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange,
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they kept me dry in the rain.
I kept food and tools at both my houses, and also wild goats. There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences（栅栏）to
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them in. They learnt to take food from me, and soon I had goat milk to
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every day. I also worked hard in my cornfields. And so many years went by.
1. A. picked up B. cut down C. looked at D. took away
2. A. clever B. cool C. stupid D. young
3. A. sad B. busy C. happy D. free
4. A. newer B. longer C. brighter D. smaller
5. A. sea B. hospital C. forest D. desert
6. A. family B. house C. room D. village
7. A. buy B. play C. eat D. make
8. A. or B. so C. but D. and
9. A. help B. keep C. cause D. allow
10. A. drink B. sell C. make D. buy
