完形填空。      I came to India about ten years ago to find a village in which I could live and write. However, it was
many months before I    1  down happily in this Himalayan village.
      I    2   alot oftimelooking for the     3    village. Yet no such thing exists.      4    were quite different. But
the villages I stayed in had much in     5    -dirt,poverty, no      6     . Often the villagers themselves were
     7     about why I had come. I had      8    my work as a political newspaperwriter      9      my ideas had
changed. I had    10  to believe that what was happening in the    11   World was more important than
anything else. But to understand how three quaqters ofthe   12  peoplelive,and how their      13    might
affect ours,lfelt that I first had to try and      14    their way of life.
         15    I chose a mountain village because it was a little      16     than those in the plains.  I took the bus
from town along a bumpy(崎岖) road.  Then came a    17    down a steep path to the river. After that I
began the climb into the hills. WheneverI stopped to   18  my breath, I saw a beautiful     19  . After several
 hours" walk the      20    came into sight.

(     )1. A. settled       (     )2. A. spared       (     )3. A. high         (     )4. A. Clouds       (     )5. A. surprise     (     )6. A. education     (     )7. A. disappointed (     )8. A. taken away   (     )9. A. because       (     )10. A. refused     (     )11.A. Fourth       (     )12.A. continent"s   (     )13. A. past         (     )14. A. share       (     )15. A. In fact     (     )16. A. easier       (     )17. A. walk         (     )18. A. absorb       (     )19. A. bird         (     )20. A. house

B. stayed             B. took               B. typical           B. Houses             B. particular         B. food               B. delighted         B. put aside         B. although           B. decided           B. First             B. world"s           B. future             B. change             B. In the beginning   B. warmer             B. sail               B. hold               B. scene             B. mountain

C. lived         C. wasted         C. cold           C. Roads         C. reality       C. air           C. puzzled       C. put down       C. while         C. come           C. Second         C. region"s       C. position       C. adapt         C. In other words C. cooler         C. rest           C. stop           C. flower         C. village

D. wrote           D. offered         D. wet             D. Conditions     D. common         D. furniture       D. discouraged     D. taken down     D. before         D. failed         D. Third           D. country"s       D. politics       D. escape         D. In the end     D. noisier         D. fall           D. catch           D. tree           D. chimney