题目内容
Young birds don’t seem to know what to eat. They will peck(啄) at anything. Put a stone near them and they will open their mouths and peck. Their fathers and mothers show them what to eat by picking up food and dropping it in front of them.
Baby bird is likely to ________.
A.peck at a pencil
B.never peck at anything
C.eat nothing
D.find food itself
提示:
文中得知,小鸟并不知道该吃什么,任何东西放在它们面前它们都会去啄。所以有可能会去啄一支铅笔
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If your mother wants to tell you something, she uses words. Birds can not talk as we do. But some birds can make sounds to warn their young of danger. They have their own ways to make the young birds do certain things.
The jackdaw is a kind of blackbirds that lives in Europe. Jackdaws live together in flocks(群). Young jackdaws do not know their enemies.When an older jackdaw see a dog, it makes a loud tattling(格格响的) sound. The young birds know this sound means an enemy is nearby.The sounds warn them to know their enemy.
If a young jackdaw is in a dangerous place, a jackdaw parent flies over him from behind. The parent bird flies low over the young bird’s back, the parents’ tail feathers move quickly from side to side. It is trying to say, “Follow me.”
At the same time,the parent calls out, “Key-aw, Key-aw.” The parent means, “Fly home with me.” The young bird then follows the older one home.
Young jackdaws do not have to learn what certain sounds mean. They know the meaning of these sounds from the time they hatch.
【小题1】The jackdaw lives in ______.
| A.Europe | B.Australia | C.America | D.Africa |
| A.calls out “Follow me.” | B.makes a loud sound |
| C.flies away | D.fights the dog |
| A.ask their young to follow them | B.play a game with the young |
| C.tell the meal time | D.give a warning of a fire |
| A.the danger of jackdaws |
| B.in which mother can talk to their children |
| C.the way jackdaws warn their young of danger |
| D.how the jackdaws are living |
Watching some children trying to catch butterflies one hot August afternoon, I was reminded of an incident in my own childhood.When I was a boy of 12 in South Carolina, something happened to me that cured me forever of wanting to put any wild creature in a cage.
We lived on the edge of a wood, and every evening at dusk the mockingbirds would come and rest in the trees and sing. There isn’t a musical instrument made by man that can produce a more beautiful sound than the song of the mockingbird.
I decided that I would catch a young bird and keep it in a cage and in that way would have my own private musician.
I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage. At first, in its fright at being captured, the bird fluttered about the cage, but eventually it settled down in its new home. I felt very pleased with myself and looked forward to some beautiful singing from my tiny musician.
I had left the cage out on our back porch, and on the second day of the bird’s captivity my new pet’s mother flew to the cage with food in her mouth. The baby bird ate everything she brought to it. I was pleased to see this. Certainly the mother knew better than I how to feed her baby.
The following morning when I went to see how my captive was doing, I discovered it on the floor of the cage, dead. I was shocked! What had happened! I had taken excellent care of my little bird, or so I thought.
Arthur Wayne, the famous ornithologist, happened to be visiting my father at the time, hearing me crying over the death of my bird, explained what had occurred. “A mother mockingbird, finding her young in a cage, will sometimes bring it poison berries. She thinks it better for her young to die than to live in captivity.”
Never since then have I caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living creatures have a right to live free.
【小题1】Why did the writer catch a mockingbird when he was a boy of 12?
| A.He wanted it to sing for him | B.He had just got a new cage. |
| C.He liked its beautiful feather. | D.He wanted a pet for a companion. |
| A.was frightened to death |
| B.drank the poisonous water by mistake |
| C.ate the poisonous food its mother gave it |
| D.refused to eat anything |
| A.a religious person | B.a kind person | C.an expert in birds | D.a schoolmaster |
| A.Be careful about food you give to baby birds. |
| B.All birds put in a cage won’t live long. |
| C.You should keep the birds from their mother. |
| D.Freedom is very valuable to all creatures. |