“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush is an old (say). (三)根据括号内所给的提示翻译下列句子.——青夏教育精英家教网—

“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush is an old (say). (三)根据括号内所给的提示翻译下列句子. 【查看更多】

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     Proverbs are quite common in spoken English. We don't normally put them in a composition or a letter.
Sometimes it is helpful if you know what common proverbs mean. Here are a few examples.
     1) "Once bitten, twice shy." If a dog bites me, I shall be twice as careful in future when I see it. This
proverb is also used to apply to many things and not only to dogs. If you have been cheated at a shop, you
will not go the same shop again.
     2) "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." If I am a hunter, trying to catch birds, it is better to
catch one than to see two birds in a bush but not able to catch them. Thus this means that what you have
already got is better than the chance of being able to get something bigger in future.
     3) "Too many cooks spoil the broth (soup)". When too many people do something, they get in each other's
way and do a bad job.
     4) "To pour oil on troubled waters" is to try to calm things down. Oil is lighter than water. If a ship is in
trouble at sea, another ship may come to help it. The second ship can send small boats to rescue people.
However, it may first pour oil on the sea to make the sea less rough.
     5) "Don't be a dog in a manger( 槽 )" means " Don't be selfish." In a stable ( 马房 ), the manger is the
place where the horse's food is put. Sometimes a dog will sleep in the manger and bark when a horse comes
to get its food. The dog does want to eat the lay in the manger but it will not let the horse eat it.
     6) "He is sitting on the fence" means that somebody will not say whether he is in favor of a plan or against
it. He is sitting on a fence between two opposing sides, perhaps waiting to see which side will win.
     7) "He who pays the piper calls the tune." A piper is a musician. The man who employs or pays a musician
can say what tunes the man will play. Thus this means that if a man provides the money for a plan, he can say
how it will be carried out.
     8) "You can't get blood out of a stone" means that you cannot get something from a person who has not
got any of the things you want. e. g. you cannot get a million dollars from a poor man.

1. Peter has a bicycle which is much too small for him but he does not want to let his younger brother
ride on it. His mother is angry and says to him: ______.

A. You can't get blood out of a stone
B. Don't be a dog in a manger
C. The early bird gets the worm
D. To pour oil on troubled waters

2. Mr. Wang paid for a new school. Some people didn't like the design of the school but they
didn't argue with Mr. Wang because ______.

A. he was sitting on the fence
B. once bitten, twice shy
C. he who pays the piper calls the tune
D. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

3. Mrs. Lin wanted to buy a new dress. Her husband suggested that she buy it from a shop near their home.
Mrs. Lin disagreed because she had been cheated by that shop. So she said: "I won't go there again
because ______."　

A. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
B. I am sitting on the fence
C. once bitten, twice shy
D. too many cooks spoil the broth

4. Mr. Brown had quite a good job in Hong Kong but he thought that if he went to Singapore, he might
get a much better job with more money and a larger house. His wife didn't want him to leave his job
in Hong Kong and she reminded him that ______.

A. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
B. too many cooks spoil the broth
C. you can not get blood out of a stone

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－Are you going to take the job?

－Certainly, though the salary is not so good．，you know．

A．A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

B．A golden key can open any door

C．Actions speak louder than words

D．Better late than never

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—Dear, I can find a better job if I go to Germany, maybe.

— Don’t be silly. ________, you know.

A．Actions speak louder than words	B．A golden key can open any door
C．A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush	D．Better late than never

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—I have tried very hard to find a solution to the problem, but in vain.

—Why not discuss with Frank? You see, _________.

A．two heads are better than one

B．a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

C．it’s better to think twice before doing something

D．great minds think alike

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完型填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。

When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies of southern Alberta from the Blackfoot Blood Reserve in northern Montana where I was born．I loved this bird; I would 36 him for hours．He would 37 effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the 38 and float there beautifully．Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move 39 into the grasses．We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language 40 “pink-colored feet”; meksikatsi and I became very good friends．

The bird had a very particular significance to me 41 I desperately wanted to be able to fly too．I felt very much as if I was the kind of person who had been born into a world where 42 was impossible．And most of the things that I 43 about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other people．

When I was ten years old, something unexpected 44 my life suddenly．I found myself become an 45 child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a 46 position that many native Americans find themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but 47 two cultures．

A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what 48 people have called that bird for thousands of years．Meksikatsi, he said, was really “duck”．I was very 49 with English．I could not understand it．First of all, the bird did not look like “duck”, and when it made a 50 , it did not sound like “duck”, I was even more 51 when I found out that the meaning of the verb “to duck” came from the bird．

As I 52 to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of 53 , but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning．I 54 that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different 55 , totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world．

1.A．keep B．watch C．follow D．search

2.A．jump B．dive C．circle D．wander

3.A．nest B．hill C．water D．road

4.A．quickly B．naturally C．freely D．quietly

5.A．means B．reads C．shows D．states

6.A．though B．because C．while D．until

7.A．communicationB．imagination C．belief D．flight

8.A．dreamed B．worried C．knew D．argued

9.A．improved B．enriched C．changed D．ruined

10.A．educated B．adopted C．outgoing D．independent

11.A．weak B．comfortable C．terrible D．central

12.A．between B．against C．without D．beyond

13.A．most B．few C．their D．my

14.A．desperate B．bored C．uncomfortable D．disappointed

15.A．noise B．call C．decision D．choice

16.A．ashamed B．confused C．embarrassed D．frightened

17.A．tried B．came C．determined D．expected

18.A．evidence B．distinction C．profit D．sense

19.A．identified B．confirmed C．realized D．predicted

20.A．concepts B．regulations C．messages D．evaluations

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