To Test Your wings

“We have to let him try it, Lila,” I said to my wife. “Cant you see that?”

“But how will he_______on his own?”

“He'll make it.”

“But he can't see, he's blind!”

“I know it.”

Of course I knew it. I'm Andy's father, aren't I? But I also knew how much it hurt Lila to say that. It was years before I heard her accept it. She knew it and had been told it over and over by all the_______at the hospitals we had taken Andy to when we were still hoping during the early years.

“Lila,” I tried again, "he's nineteen years old. He's clever. He's ambitious. He's _______-he believes in himself. He wants to try things on his own. We've given him what we can. We have to let him go.”

“But why does he have to_______a college halfway across the country?”

“Because he wants to test his wings.”

“That's all very well,” she continued to protest(抗议), “but he cannot see. How do we now he can fly on his own?”

“I think he can,” I said softly. “And we have to let him ________ He'll come back sometimes.” We were both silent for a while.

“Remember Gertie, the bird we saved?” I asked.

“Yes,” Lila nodded.“ I remember Gertie.”

“ And we let her use her wings, didn't we?”

Lila _______ again.

“Even though it had broken her wing; even though you wanted to hold onto her; even though she was disabled too in a way, and we were_______she might not make it, we still let her test her wings.”

“Yes.”

“And she did come back, didn't she? Not only that spring, but for several springs, and a couple of falls, too.”

“But never to stay.”

“No. Never to stay,” I agreed. “And that's the_______it is with children too, once they're grown and gone.”

There were tears in Lila's eyes again, but her voice was firm(坚定的) as she stood up.

“Let's go find Andy. We'll tell him he can go and test his wings.”

1.A.change B.move C.manage D.communicate

2.A.teachers B.doctors C.friends D.neighbors

3.A.bored B.nervous C.patient D.confident

4.A.miss B.leave C.choose D.discover

5.A.try B.wait C.run D.regret

6.A.laughed B.promised C.asked D.nodded

7.A.surprised B.afraid C.satisfied D.moved

8.A.way B.secret C.interest D.lesson

I am Turere. I come from Kitengela, a farming community on the edge (边缘) of Nairobi National Park of Kenya (肯尼亚). Since the age of nine, I have helped to look after my family’s cows. As a child, in my free time, I enjoyed playing with electronics. I made my own inventions, such as electronics toys from car parts and other things. I also built other electronic devices (仪器) for my neighbors.

At the age of 13, I invented something that changed my life. It also changed the lives of many people in my community. One night, a lion from the park came into my family’s farm and killed one of our cows. I was angry. However, killing the lion, I thought, was not the best way to solve the problem. Instead, I decided to invent a solution.

The first idea I got was to use fire, because I thought lions were scared of fire. But I came to realize that didn't really help, because it was even helping the lions to see through the cowshed (牛棚). So I didn't give up. I continued.

And a second idea I got was to use a scarecrow (稻草人). I was trying to trick the lions into thinking that I was standing near the cowshed. But lions are very clever. They will come the first day and they see the scarecrow, and they go back. But the second day, they'll come and they say, this thing is not moving here, it is always here! So he jumps in and kills the animal.

So one night, I was walking around the cowshed with a torch (手电筒), and that day the lions didn’t come. And I discovered that lions were afraid of a moving light. So I had an idea ...

1.What was Turere interested in when he was a child?

A.Tricking the neighbors. B.Looking after cows.

C.Playing with electronics D.Making car parts.

2.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refers to?

A.The lion. B.The scarecrow. C.The cow. D.The cowshed.

3.What's the solution to driving the lion away?

A.Using a moving light. B.Using a torch.

C.Using a scarecrow. D.Using fire.

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