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Far out in the sea lived three Sirens,the three sisters of magic song. Half human and half bird,the Siren sisters sat in a field of flowers,   1   in voices that excited the hearts of men.The attractive songs were so   2    that ships were attracted to the   3   and struck to pieces on the rocks. No sailor nor ship had ever been known to   4   the island of the Sirens without being attracted to   5  .      Acting on the advice of Circe, Odysseus made careful   6   against the Sirens．Before their ships came to where they could   7   the song, Odysseus had himself   8   the mast (桅杆), stuffed (堵住) the   9   of his men with wax (蜡) and ordered them to   10   his orders and gestures when they were passing the   11   island.          Soon they came in sight of the   12   island, and the attractive song reached the ears of   13  . It moved him so much that he struggled in despair to   14   himself and shouted for his men to   15   the rich and flowery grass land of the singing sisters. But   16   paid any attention to him. The sailors kept straight on until they were  17   out of hearing.   18   his friends freed him and took the wax out of their ears. For   19   the Sirens had sung with no   20  . The eldest of the sisters, Partherope, loved Odysseus so much that she threw herself into the sea after his ships had passed.

(     )1. A. talking      (     )2. A. strange      (     )3. A. flowers      (     )4. A. visit        (     )5. A. disaster      (     )6. A. communication (     )7. A. sing         (     )8. A. tied to      (     )9. A. eyes                        (     )10. A. miss        (     )11. A. friendly    (     )12. A. rocky        (     )13. A. Partherope  (     )14. A. beat        (     )15. A. go around    (     )16. A. no one      (     )17. A. completely  (     )18. A. Still        (     )19. A. the moment  (     )20. A. meanings    B. calling        B. sweet          B. sea            B. approach        B. success        B. preparation    B. accept          B. standing along  B. mouth           B. ignore                      B. 1ovely          B. sunny          B. Sirens        B. free           B. keep off        B. anyone          B. luckily      B. Then          B. long          B. points        C. yelling       C. terrible       C. island         C. pass           C. peace         C. action         C. hear            C. facing to       C. nose          C. carry                     C. deadly         C. windy         C. Circe          C. relief         C. turn towards   C. everyone       C. quickly        C. But            C. ever          C. effects     D. singing        D. loud           D. rocks          D. leave          D. loss           D. attention      D. enjoy          D. seated on      D. ears           D. take                        D. lonely         D. sandy          D. Odysseus       D. order          D. run away from  D. someone        D. naturally      D. Again        D. once           D. efforts

Answer 1

1-5:  DBCCA  6-10:  BCADB  11-15: CADBC  16-20:  AABDC