1 . My side of the Mountain is a novel about a boy called Sam Gribley. 14-year-old Sam Gribley lives in his family’s crowded New York apartment. Unsatisfied with the situation, Sam plans to run away to his great-grandfather’s abandoned farm in the woods near the small town of Delhi.
Sam’s father allows it. He strongly believes Sam will come back once he realizes what it’s like－to live without things like electricity and running water.
Then a bus takes Sam to Delhi. Sam uses fire to enlarge a tree’s inside and makes it his home. To seek food, he makes traps. While checking his traps, Sam spots a falcon hunting for animals. Wanting a falcon to help hunt, Sam studies falconry at the town’s library. He camps for days to track down the falcon’s nest. After finally piecing together its location, he steals a baby falcon and manages to train it to hunt for him. As winter approaches, Sam kills a deer for its skin and roasts deer meat for food.
Spring arrives. Matt, a teenager reporter, arrives at Sam’s tree house. Matt wants to write about Sam’s life on the Gribley farm and spends a week with Sam. Matt is very excited to be there while Sam is suddenly sad. Matt’s coming reminds him too much of life in New York City. There are his close friends and family members who were once around him, accompanying him, listening to him and talking to him.
In June, Sam’s father announces that the entire family is moving to the farm. Sam is happy but also upset. It is end of freedom.
My side of the Mountain is called “a pleasant flight from civilization, written with real feeling for the woods”. By 1998, the book had been translated into numerous foreign languages, and visitors to Delhi often ask to see the farm where the novel is set.
1. How does Sam’s father find the life on an abandoned farm?| A．Boring. | B．Colorful. | C．Inconvenient. | D．Satisfying. |
| A．Losing contact with his friends. | B．Missing his friends and family. |
| C．Having no opportunity to read Matt’s report. | D．Realizing that his freedom comes to an end. |
| A．It was published in 1998. | B．It is well recognized and popular. |
| C．It records Sam’s lonely growth process. | D．It features simple words and real plots. |
| A．Sam is unsatisfied to live with his family. |
| B．Sam is against his father’s will to live in the woods. |
| C．Sam is ignorant about survival in the wild. |
| D．Sam is eager for freedom, independence and adventure. |
