56. The purpose of this passage is ______.
[A] to describe Jiggins' Health Habit
[B] to introduce some advice to keep one healthy and live longer
[C] to describe Jiggins' effect on a whole generation of young men
[D] to tell people proper time they should get up to keep themselves fit and healthy

57. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the sentence “If he could, then he tried some other way until he found one that he couldn't do” ?
[A] Jiggins never knew what he was doing.
[B] Jiggins felt that being healthy must involve hard work.
[C] Jiggins was very healthy.
[D] Jiggins never ate lunch.

58. The author's attitude towards Jiggins is ______.
[A] ironic.
[B] approved
[C] resentful
[D] sympathetic

59. “Take your chance on unpolluted air” means the author ______.
[A] agreed with Jiggins about the dangers of polluted air
[B] thought that people like Jiggins were too concerned about the purity of the air they breathed
[C] thought people should breathe polluted and unpolluted air by turns.
[D] thought people should try every possible means to breathe unpolluted air

60. The tone of the passage is ______.
[A]humorous.     [B]sad.     [C]serious.     [D]formal.

Passage Four

BEXLEY, Ohio—of all the places I have dreamed of visiting, I have been lucky enough to visit most. And yet the place that had been most on my mind always seems an impossible destination. Not because it is remote; it is not that for a journey to central Ohio. Not because it is expensive, either; money was not even a factor.
But it remained unlikely, because people just don't do things like this. What I wanted to do was go back to the house in which I grew up; not just look at it from a car driving by, but spend time there, visit it, remember it as it was. Several families have lived there since my own family moved away; often I had thought about what would happen if I just showed up unannounced some day, but I always rejected that as fantasy. This time , though, I did it. I didn't have the nerve to simply knock on the door. But I found out the names of the people who now live in the house—Stanley and Elaine Shayne and their children—and I wrote them a letter asking if they'd mind. The Shayne family couldn't have been more understanding; they let me know that it was OK for me to be there (they even put a “Welcome Home” sign on the big tree in the front yard), and for the better part of three days, I lived at 2722 Bryden Road again.

It was jarring, moving, weird. Think about what it would be like if you were turned loose (不受拘束) in the house where you grew up. You would find that it had been redecorated several times as families had moved in and out; you would find strangers living in the rooms you always associated with your parents and brothers and sisters. Everything would be different, yet everything would be the same. One moment you would feel a thousand miles away. The next you would feel as if you had never left. It would be confusing and exhilarating and happy and sad, all at the same time.

My visit was all of those things. I found myself climbing the front stairs countless times, looking into bedrooms, sitting on the front stoop waiting for the paperboy to arrive. The Shaynes got used to me soon enough; they had their meals, and talked in the living rooms or the backyard, and just allowed me to have the run of the place.

I went to my old room, and the boy who lives there now was lying on his bed listening to music. What a feeling. That might have been me in there when I was his age, but now I was standing in the doorway, an observer, almost afraid to step inside.
In the upstairs hallway was a little cranny built into the wall to hold a telephone. I had forgotten about it completely, but seeing it again took me back to all the nights I had pulled the cord into my own room and locked the door for privacy. And sure enough, on this evening the phone had been pulled away, and was locked in one of the children's bedrooms.

The interior of the house looked completely different, but every few minutes I would come across a touch (a decoration that adds personal feeling)that almost made me shiver. The front door, for example, it had been painted and refinished, but when I went to open it, the knob and latch felt so familiar in my hand; I looked at them, and although I hadn't thought about them in years, I knew immediately that they were the same ones.

And the wooden banister that runs up the stairway and then curves around next to the bedrooms—as I walked I found myself letting my hand glide across the top of it, and I realize that this was a habit I had ever since I was a child. Everywhere I turned there was something like that; the bath rooms had been refurbished and decorated, but in the children's bathroom the old-fashioned heater was still built into the wall beneath the window; you wouldn't imagine that something like that would affect you, but believe me, it does.

The house seemed very small to me. Which is inevitable, I guess; when you are growing up, your house is your whole world, and once your world becomes the real world itself, one building can never seem quite so imposing again. As I stood at the top of the stairs I realized that, of course, there was nothing inherently romantic in this structure; it was just one house on one block in one small city.

Still, when the three days were over, I had a feeling of satisfaction that is hard to describe. I hope, someday, the people in the Shayne family will look back on their years at 2722 Bryden Road with the same warmth and joy that I do; and I hope, if they ever get the urge to come back, they won't too shy to ask, and that the people who live there in that future summer will not be too protective of their privacy to say yes.

Because I can promise them this: It may not be the most lavish vacation they will ever spend, but it will surely be one of the best.

61. The author writes this story to ______.
[A] revisit his childhood home
[B] describe a moving experience
[C] show how much has changed in his home town
[D] share the Shayne's unusual experiences

62. The author feels that the Shayne family is ______.
[A] warm and sharing
[B] very different from his own family
[C] inherently romantic
[D] very private about their lives

63. Which of the following statements best expresses the author's attitude about his experience?
[A] One can never recapture the memories of youth.
[B] Seeing the changes in one's childhood home brings a longing to stay there.
[C] Returning to one's childhood home carries with it mixed emotions.
[D] It is difficult to recapture one's childhood emotions during a short visit home.

64. The author believes that ______.
[A] places may change yet maintain a familiar spirit
[B] one should never see strangers living in one's childhood home
[C] as things age, they lose their original spirit
[D] changes in a house spoil its charm

65. The author believes that ______.
[A] families need to protect their privacy
[B] compared with youth of years ago, today’s teenagers experience different home environments
[C] one's childhood home represents a very small portion of one's world
[D] strangers can often show great understanding