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Ever since I was very small,I have had the sense that I ought to be somewhere else.I remember watching trains flash by and wishing I was on board.I remember going to the airport with my parents when I was 13 and reading the destinations board,seeing all the places that I could go to:Los Angeles,Chicago,London.But the trains passed by and the planes took off without me,so I wandered the world through books.I went to Victorian England in the pages of Middlemarch and A little Princess,and to St.Petersburg before the fall of the tsar （沙皇）with Anna Karenina.My home was in a pleasant place outside Philadelphia.But I really lived,somewhere else.I lived within the covers of books.In books I traveled,not only to other worlds,but into my own.I learned who I was and whom I wanted to be,what I might achieve,and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.I travel today in the way I once dreamed of traveling as a child---on airplanes and trains.And the irony is that I don’t care fir it very much.I am the sort of person who prefers to stay at home,surrounded by family,friends,books.The only thing I do like about traveling is the time on airplanes spent reading.It turns out that when my younger self thought of taking wing,she wanted only to let her spirit soar.Books are the plane,and the train,and the road.They are the real destinations,and the journey too.They are home.11.What did the writer do as a curious child?_______ A.She visited Victorian England and Tsarist Russia.B.She flew to Los Angeles,Chicago and London with her parents.C.She read all kinds of books.D.She spent lots of time traveling on trains.12.How does the author feel about travel today?_______ A.She doesn’t like it very much.B.She takes great pleasure in it.C.She feels tired of it.D.She feels as excited as when she was young.13.What did the author learn from books as a child?______ A .About many foreign places.B.About many historical figures.C.About the outside world as well as her own self.D.About the ironies of life.14.We can infer from the passage that when traveling by air,the author spends most of her time on the way _____.A.reading books B.resting herself C.imagining things D.letting her spirit soar 15.In this passage the author mainly talks about _____.A.the wonders of travel B.her growth from an innocent child to a learned woman C.the benefits of reading D.the difference between childhood dreams and life’s realities

he dreamed to somewhere else .