About 43 years ago, I spotted an advertisement in the paper for the YMCA wildness program. I was 15 and wanted to do something different. My first experience was a boat trip. I still have the images of sunrises and sunsets with all beautiful colors on Lake of the Woods.
As a teenager, I didn’t know that I was having the best adventure a teenager could have. Even now I can feel the cold water dripping down my arm as we sat in the boat pulling the paddles awkardly through running water. It was my first experience in a boat and my arms became tired after many hours of paddling.
We stopped for lunch in the boat by assembling all the boats together. Our guide handed out chocolate, cheese and dried meat.
At night, it was time to camp at our site picked out by our guide. There we learned to start campfires and cook some of our meals. This is where I felt in love with noodles. It was wonderful to share simple meals over the fire and talk with new friends. We cleaned up our mess and put up our tents and slept on the ground. We learned to carry the heavy packs to our next destination. I developed a sense of accomplishment and had arm muscles after that trip.
There were no phones , makeup, hair dryers...just us and the bush. We came from different backgrounds with different personalities and we all had to work together as a group.
I liked the boat trip so much that I joined the “Survival” trip the next year. I kept a journal from that second trip and often go back to it.
1. Where did the author experience his first boat trip in the wild?(No more than 5 words)2. What did the author think of his/her first boat trip?(No more than 10words)
3. What does the underlined word “assembling” in paragraph 3 probably mean?(1 word)
4. What did the author learn to do from the camp of the first boat trip?(no more than 10 words)
5. What do you think of a trip without phones?(no more than 20words)
1. What does the woman say about her honeymoon?
| A．She met with bad weather. |
| B．She didn't take any pictures. |
| C．She spent a lot of time queuing. |
| A．He went diving. |
| B．He played beach volleyball. |
| C．He stayed in the hotel all day. |
| A．Teach him to ski. |
| B．Spend Christmas with his family. |
| C．Go to Switzerland together |
