Question

In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet (长尾鹦鹉) on my finger, I wanted to show Perky

  41   the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird   42   out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my   43  , Perky flew off. The extremely large, blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue   44   and suddenly he was gone, clipped (夹住) wings and all.

Kathy managed to   45   me. With fake optimism, she even tried to reassure (使安心) me that Perky would find a new   46  . But I was far too clever to   47   that such a thing was possible.

Decades later, I watched my own   48   growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the   49   of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the   50   of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed to   51   the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog.   52   Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and   53   that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.

“The best thing   54   Sweetie Pie,” he said, “was the   55   we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just   56   down and landed on my finger.”

When I was finally able to   57  , we examined the amazing evidence. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all   58  . It seems our two families had been   59   long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, “You were   60  ! Perky lived!”

 

41．A．what	B．how	C．which	D．where
42．A．food	B．nest	C．friend	D．family
43．A．joy	B．horror	C．disappointment	D．satisfaction
44．A．pleasure	B．sadness	C．treasure	D．sense
45．A．forgive	B．comfort	C．help	D．delight
46．A．parent	B．home	C．master	D．life
47．A．imagine	B．suppose	C．doubt	D．believe
48．A．birds	B．happiness	C．worries	D．children
49．A．parents	B．birds	C．interests	D．games
50．A．first	B．best	C．last	D．happiest
51．A．catch	B．find	C．buy	D．have
52．A．Suddenly	B．Fortunately	C．Then	D．However
53．A．announced	B．said	C．told	D．hoped
54．A．in	B．about	C．of	D．on
55．A．day	B．place	C．way	D．story
56．A．floated	B．dived	C．settled	D．went
57．A．think	B．speak	C．interrupt	D．explain
58．A．came up	B．turned up	C．turned out	D．matched up
59．A．known	B．fastened	C．connected	D．introduced
60．A．right	B．wrong	C．silly	D．mad

Answer 1

41―45 ACBCA             46―50 BDDAB            51―55 DCABC                   56―60 ABDCA