20. B用1美元11分钱买来奇迹，反映了小女孩的"信念"，其他的不合题意。
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[押题依据]本文是一篇情节曲折、充满传奇色彩的记叙文。高考完形填空在选择记叙文题材时，第二个倾向是注重短文本身情节的曲折变化，考查考生对全文逻辑的把握能力。文章长度约309词，符合近几年高考完形填空短文长度逐渐加长的趋势。在命题方面以对文意和曲折情节的把握和理解为考查重心，设空以实词为主，其中涉及动词7个，动词短语1个，名词7个，形容词2个，介词1个，副词1个，
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In 1956 Phoenix,
Arizona, was a city with
boundless blue skies. One day as 1walked around the house with my sister
Kathy’s new
parakeet (小鹦鹉)on my
finger, I wanted to show Perky1 the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a
little bird 2 out there. I
took him into the backyard, and then, to my 3 , Perky flew off. The
enormous(巨大的), blue
sky swallowed up my sister’s blue 4 and
suddenly he had gone , clipped wings and all.
Kathy managed to 5
me. With fake optimism(乐观), she even tried to reassure (安慰)me that Perky would find a new
6. But I was far too clever to 7 that such a thing was possible.
Decades later, I watched my own 8 growing. We shared their activities,
spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the 9 of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The
two families went camping around Arizona
together. We became the 10 of friends. One evening, the game was to
tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed(宣称) to 11 the oldest
living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog. 12 Barry, the father of
the other family, took the floor and13 that the Greatest Pet of All Time
was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.
"The best thing 14
Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the15 we got him. One day, when I was about
eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just16 down and landed on my finger."
When I was finally able to 17 , we examined the amazing evidence(证据). The dates and the locations
and the pictures of the bird all 18 . It seems our two families had
been 19 long before we ever
met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were 20 !
Perky lived!"