One summer evening I was sitting by the open window, reading a good but rather frightening mystery (神秘) story. After a time it was too dark for me to read easily, so I put my book down and turned on the light.

     I was just about to draw the     31  as well when I heard a loud cry of “Help! Help!”  It   32  to come from the trees at the end of the garden. I looked    __33___  but it was too _34_ to see anything clearly. So I decided to go out and have a look in the garden, just ___35  someone was in  36  . I took the torch( 手电筒) and picked up a strong walking stick,  37  that this might be useful, too. Armed with these, I went out into the garden.  38   I heard the cry. There was no __39  that it came from the trees at the end of the garden.

“Who’s there?” I 40   as I walked, rather _   41   , down the path that  42  __

 to the  trees., But there was no    43   . With the help of my torch I examined the whole of that part of the garden and the lower    44   of the trees. There was no   45   of anybody or anything. I came to the conclusion(断定) that someone was playing a rather silly joke on me.

      46   feeling rather puzzled, I went back to the house and __47 away the torch and the stick. I had just sat down when I was startled (吓一跳) by the cry of “Help! Help!”, this time from  ___48__my shoulder. I dropped my book and ___49__up. There, sitting      50  of the mantelpiece (壁炉), was a parrot!

31. A. gun       B. picture          C. curtains          D. car

32. A. seemed        B. appeared      C. sounded      D. proved

33. A. in        B. out          C. ahead        D. around

34. A. far        B. distant          C. dark         D. black

35. A. as if       B. even though    C. on time       D. in case

36. A. difficulty    B. power        C. trouble          D. ease

37. A. thinking    B. wishing       C. demanding     D. requesting

38. A. Again and again B. Now and then C. From time to time D. Once again

39. A. chance     B. doubt         C. problem       D. question

40. A. thought out  B. called out      C. got out           D. said out

41. A. seriously    B. nervously      C. frightfully      D. hurriedly

42. A. led           B. went        C. passed          D. joined

43. A. person     B. body         C. answer          D. voice

44. A. roots      B. branches      C. leaves           D. bushes

45. A. sight       B. sign          C. scene        D. sigh

46. A. But        B. Yet          C. Already       D. Still

47. A. put           B. took         C. threw        D. cleared

48. A. far off      B. down below    C. left to        D. right behind

49. A. looked         B. jumped       C. stood        D. climbed

50. A. on top      B. at the foot     C. inside     D. outside

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