【正文】 er the border, always that little bit further to go. And what did the extra miles cost us? Nothing.We were not pletely uninterested in culture. But this was a first holiday without parents, as it was for most other InterRailers, and in organizing our own timetable we left out everything except the most available sights. This was the chance to escape the guided tour, an opportunity to do something different. I took great pride in the fact that, in many places, all I could be bothered to see was the view from the station. We were just there to get by, and to have good time doing so. In this we were no different from most of the other InterRailers with whom we shared passage floors, food and water, money and music.The excitement of travel es from the sudden reality of somewhere that was previously just a name. It is as if the city in which you arrive never actually existed until the train pulls in at the station and you are able to see it with your own tired eyes for the first time.59. At the end of his first trip, the writer said “Never again” because_______. A. he fell ill B. he disliked trains C. he was tired from the journey D. he had lost money60. What does the writer mean by “this way of looking at life” in Paragraph 3? A. Worrying about your clothes. B. Throwing unwanted things away. C. Behaving in an antisocial way. D. Looking after your possessions.61. Why did the writer originally buy an InterRail ticket? A. To get to one place cheaply. B. To meet other young people. C. To see a lot of famous places. D. To go on a tour of Europe.62. What the writer liked about traveling without his parents was that________. A. he could see more interesting places B. he could spend more time sightseeing C. he could stay away from home longer D. he could make his own decisions63. What does “it” in the last sentence of Paragraph 6 refer to? A. A name. B. The city. C. The train. D. The station.CTwo skulls found in Africa have been identified as the oldest human remains known to science. The fossilized(化石) bones found in 1967 were originally thought to be 130,000 years old. But a redating of rock layers near those which yielded the fossils showed they are actually about 195,000 years oldfrom the time modern humans appeared. The skulls, known as Omo I and II, push back the known presence of Homo sapiens (現代人) in Africa by 40,000 years. The previous oldest Homo sapiens skulls, dated to between 154,000 and 160,000 years old, were found near a village called Herto in the afar region of eastern Ethiopia. Omo I and II were unearthed by famous paleontologist Richard Leakey along the Omo River in southern Ethiopia, near the town of Kibish. Omo I’s more modern features led to disagreement among experts over whether they were the same age. The rocks in which they were found show they are, said an Australian archaeologist Prof. Ian McDougall, who made the discovery. He told scientific journal “Nature”: “Omo I and Omo II are relatively securely dated to 195,000 years old, making them the oldest anatomically modern human fossils yet recovered”64. By which means could scientists tell the age of fossils they have found? A. The bones of the fossils. B. The place where they were found. C. The history of humans. D. Identifying the rock layers of the fossils.65. How many years older have modern humans bee by the new discovery? A. 130,000. B. 40,000. C. 195,000. D. Between 154,000 and 160,000.66. Which of the following statements are NOT true according to the passage? A. The new discovery of the skulls and the research proved the modern humans might have started in Africa. B. Prof. Ian McDougall thought Omo I and II were the oldest human fossils discovered.C. Prof. Ian McDougall discovered that Omo I and II were not the same age. D. Omo I and II were discovered in southern Ethiopia. DIn the lumberyard (木材廠) by the lake, where trees from the woods were turned into boards for construction work, there was an old brick building two floors high, and all around the outside walls were heaped great piles of soft sawdust(鋸木屑). There were many of these golden mountains of dust covering that part of the yard right down to the blue lake. That afternoon, bored with having nothing else to do, all the fellows followed Michael up the ladder to the roof of the old building and they sat with their legs hanging over the edge looking out across the lake. Suddenly Michael said, “I dare you to jump down,” and without thinking about it, he pushed himself off the roof and fell on the sawdust where he lay rolling around and laughing. “I dare you all!” he shouted. “You’re all cowards(膽小鬼),” he said, encouraging them to follow him. Still laughing, he watched them looking down from the roof, whitefaced and hesitant, and then one by one they jumped and got up grinning (咧嘴笑) with relief.In the hot afternoon sunlight they all lay on the sawdus