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第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Animals can be of great fun, but it’s important to know   21   to be safe when you’re with them. Both indoor animals and outdoor animals need to be   22   kindly all the time. This means different things    23   on the animal and the situation.   24    a wild animal, being kind may mean staying far away    25    the animal doesn’t feel threatened and so you stay    26    .
Stepping outside can mean a world full of great animals to see —     27   squirrels in trees to birds in flight. In some parts of the world, kids    28    see slithery snakes, black bats,   29 even cool coyotes. And don’t forget raccoons, skunks, and other critters    30   come out in some places at night.
The rule in the great outdoors is simple: Don’t    31 or go near an animal.   32   some of these animals may look cool or even cute, leave them   33 . These animals aren’t like regular pets. They’re not    34    to being around people and may bite or attack if you come near them. They also might have rabies(狂犬病).
Don’t ever try to   35   a wild animal. Bird feeders are OK, but other animals,    36   they look hungry, shouldn’t ever be fed. When it comes to these animals, it’s better for everyone if you stay   ____37    and check them out at the zoo, on the Internet, on TV nature shows, or in books.[来
If a pet looks sick or is injured, stay far away. An animal that    38   loves to be petted may get very    39   and even bite when it is feeling ill. Tell an adult so he or she can get   40  for the animal.

21. A. what
22. A. taken care
23. A. depend
24. A. To
25. A. so
26. A. safe
27. A. like
28. A. should
29. A. or
30. A. what
31. A. touch
32. A. Because
33. A. outside
34. A. using
35. A. keep
36. A. however
37. A. closer
38. A. normally
39. A. happy
40. A. exercise

B. why
B. served
B. look
B. With
B. and
B. dangerous
B. round
B. have to
B. and
B. that
B. look
B. Even
B. lonely
B. used
B. feed
B. if
B. closely
B. always
B. satisfied
B. hope

C. how
C. protected
C. wait
C. As
C. but
C. threatened
C. from
C. will
C. but
C. those
C. feel
C. Although
C. alone
C. being used
C. attack
C. after
C. away
C. rarely
C. excited
C. plan

D. which
D. treated
D. call
D. Treating
D. because
D. calm
D. not only
D. may
D. either
D. who
D. keep
D. Since
D. quietly
D. to be used
D. check
D. even if
D. far
D. often
D. upset
D. help

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。
When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies of southern Alberta from the Blackfoot Blood Reserve in northern Montana where I was born．I loved this bird; I would    36 him for hours．He would    37  effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the   38 and float there beautifully．Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move   39  into the grasses．We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language   40  “pink-colored feet”; meksikatsi and I became very good friends．
The bird had a very particular significance to me   41  I desperately wanted to be able to fly too．I felt very much as if I was the kind of person who had been born into a world where    42  was impossible．And most of the things that I    43   about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other people．
When I was ten years old, something unexpected   44 my life suddenly．I found myself become an 45 child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a   46 position that many native Americans find themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but   47 two cultures．
A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what   48 people have called that bird for thousands of years．Meksikatsi, he said, was really “duck”．I was very 49 with English．I could not understand it．First of all, the bird did not look like “duck”, and when it made a    50  , it did not sound like “duck”, I was even more   51  when I found out that the meaning of the verb “to duck” came from the bird．
As I   52 to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of    53   , but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning．I   54  that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different    55  , totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world．

Passage one（The only way to travel is on foot）
The past ages of man have all been carefully labeled by anthropologists. Descriptions like ‘ Palaeolithic Man’, ‘Neolithic Man’, etc., neatly sum up whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label ‘Legless Man’. Histories of the time will go something like this: ‘in the twentieth century, people forgot how to use their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age. There were lifts and escalators in all large buildings to prevent people from walking. This situation was forced upon earth dwellers of that time because of miles each day. But the surprising thing is that they didn’t use their legs even when they went on holiday. They built cable railways, ski-lifts and roads to the top of every huge mountain. All the beauty spots on earth were marred by the presence of large car parks. ’
The future history books might also record that we were deprived of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way. Air travel gives you a bird’s-eye view of the world – or even less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way. When you travel by car or train a blurred image of the countryside constantly smears the windows. Car drivers, in particular, are forever obsessed with the urge to go on and on: they never want to stop. Is it the lure of the great motorways, or what? And as for sea travel, it hardly deserves mention. It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old song: ‘I joined the navy to see the world, and what did I see? I saw the sea.’ The typical twentieth-century traveler is the man who always says ‘I’ve been there. ’ You mention the remotest, most evocative place-names in the world like El Dorado, Kabul, Irkutsk and someone is bound to say ‘I’ve been there’ – meaning, ‘I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else. ’
When you travel at high speeds, the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place. But actual arrival, when it is achieved, is meaningless. You want to move on again. By traveling like this, you suspend all experience; the present ceases to be a reality: you might just as well be dead. The traveler on foot, on the other hand, lives constantly in the present. For him traveling and arriving are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes. He experiences the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body. At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical weariness. He knows that sound. Satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travellers.
1、Anthorpologists label nowaday’s men ‘Legless’ because
A people forget how to use his legs.
B people prefer cars, buses and trains.
C lifts and escalators prevent people from walking.
D there are a lot of transportation devices.
2、Travelling at high speed means
A people’s focus on the future.
B a pleasure.
C satisfying drivers’ great thrill.
D a necessity of life.
3、Why does the author say ‘we are deprived of the use of our eyes’ ?
A People won’t use their eyes.
B In traveling at high speed, eyes become useless.
C People can’t see anything on his way of travel.
D People want to sleep during travelling.
4、What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?
A Legs become weaker.
B Modern means of transportation make the world a small place.
C There is no need to use eyes.
D The best way to travel is on foot.
5. What does ‘a bird’s-eye view’ mean?
A See view with bird’s eyes.
B A bird looks at a beautiful view.
C It is a general view from a high position looking down.
D A scenic place.

SECTION B(10%)

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Even bird brains can get to know an entire continent ----- but it takes them a year of migration to do so, suggests a Princeton research team.

The scientists have shown that migrating adult sparrows can find their way to their winter nesting grounds even after being thrown off course by thousands of miles.

The team first brought 30 sparrows to Princeton from northern Washington State, where the birds had been in the process of migrating southward from their summer breeding grounds in Alaska. Half the birds were juveniles(少年) of about three months in age that had never migrated before, while the other half were adults that had made the round trip to their wintering site in the south-western United States at least once.

After the birds were released, they attempted to start their migration again but both age group grew disoriented(迷失方向) quickly.

“All the birds scattered(分散) at first,” Wikelski said. “It was clear that they were turned around for a couple of days. But while the adults eventually realized they had to head southwest, the younger birds began flying straight southward again as though they were still in Washington.”

“The adults,” said team member Richard Holland, “recovered their bearings because they possess something the younger birds do not, which is an internal map.”

“These birds need two things to know where they are and migrate effectively: a ‘map’ and a ‘compass’,” said Holland, a postdoctoral research associate in Wikelski’s lab. “What we’ve found is that juveniles use their compass, but the adults also use their map.”

Holland said, “The birds do not lose the compass as they age, but somehow develop the map, eventually applying both tools to keep on track during migratory flights. Scientists already have determined that the compass is based on the sun or the magnetic field, but where the map comes from remains a mystery----one that the team will be exploring in the coming years.”

81.Where do you think the 30 sparrows spent their summer? (No more than 2 words)

_______________________________________________________________________________82.What are the juveniles sparrows really lack of? (No more than 3 words)

_______________________________________________________________________________83.What are scientists still not sure about? (No more than 6 words)

_______________________________________________________________________________84.What is the main idea of the passage? (No more than 12 words)

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