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When I was a boy aged twelve in South Carolina, something happened to me that made me never put any wild creature in a cage.
We lived on one end of a forest, and every evening the mockingbirds（嘲鸟） would come and rest in the trees and __36__. There isn't a musical instrument made by man that can produce a more beautiful sound than the song of the mockingbird.
I decided to catch a young __37__ and keep it in a cage, and in this way, I would have my own private musician.
I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage. At first, the bird was __38__, so it fluttered (扑腾) about the cage. But finally it was used to living in its new home. I felt very excited with myself and ___39___ some beautiful singing from my little musician.
On the second day, the little bird's mother flew to the cage with __40__ in her mouth. The baby bird ate everything she brought to it. I was __41__ to see this. Certainly the mother bird knew how to feed her baby better than I did.
The following morning when I went to see my bird, I found it __42__ on the floor of the cage. I was terribly surprised! What had happened!
Arthur Wayne, the famous ornithologist (鸟类专家), happened to be __43__ my father at that time. After she heard me crying over the death of my bird, she explained to me. "A mother mockingbird, finding her young in a cage, will __44__ bring it poison berries (毒莓). She thinks it better for her baby to die than to lose ___45___.
Since then I have never caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living things have a right to live free.
36. A. dance B. fly C. sing D. jump
37. A. bird B. boy C. fish D. thief
38. A. happy B. careful C. active D. afraid
39. A. looked forward to B. looked out of C. looked for D. looked up
40. A. water B. food C. songs D. diet
41. A. worried B. pleased C. bored D. tired
42. A. alone B. alive C. dead D. bad
43. A. calling B. visiting C. challenging D. introducing
44. A. never B. seldom C. sometimes D. ever
45. A. friends B. parents C. freedom D. happiness
查看习题详情和答案>>Dear Li Lei,
How are you? I’m glad to get your 41 . I’d like to tell you something about my school life.
In the USA, school 42 at 8:00 a.m. I usually get up at 6:5
0 and then have breakfast. I
43 the school bus to school at 7:25. 44 does school begin in China? How do you come to school? My favorite subject is science 45 it’s easy and interesting. Which subject do you like 46 ? School 47 at 3:30 p.m. After school, it’s time 48 activities. I like a few kinds of activities, such as(例如) playing ball games, singing, flying kites and so on. But I don’t like to dance 49 . What about you?
Can you tell me 50 about your school life? Write back to me by e-mail soon.
Yours,
Jack
( )41. A. photo B. card C. e-mail
( )42. A. begins B. is beginning C. is opening
( )43. A. am taking B. take C. takes
( )44. A. Who B. How C. What time
( )45. A. so B. because C. and
( )46. A. better B. well C. best
( )47. A. is over B. is ending C. end
( )48. A. to B. for C. with
( )49. A. at all B. very well C
. a little
( )50. A. anything B. something C. nothing
查看习题详情和答案>>card ever came with it. Calls to the flower shop were not helpful at all. After some time I stopped
trying to find out the sender’s name and was just pleased with the beautiful white flower, in soft pink
paper.
I couldn’t stop imagining(想像)who the giver might be, though. Some of my happiest moments
were spent daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged these daydreams. She, d ask me
if I had been especially kind to someone. Perhaps it was one of my classmates. Perhaps it was the
old man. He lived across from the street. I’d sent him his mail during the winter. As a girl, though, I
had more fun imagining that it might be a boy that I had met.
A month before my high school graduation(毕业), my father died. I was so sad that I became
uninterested in my upcoming graduation dance, and I didn’t care whether I had a new dress or not.
My mother, in her won sadness, however, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her
children to feel loved. In fact, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia:
lovely, strong and perfect, with perhaps a bit of mystery(神秘).
When I was 22, I got married. My mother died ten years after I was married. That was the year
the gardenia stopped coming.
A. The writer didn’t know who sent her the flower when she first received it.
B. The writer’s father died a month before she finished school.
C. The writer married at the age 22.
D. The gardenia means lovely, strong and perfect and a bit myserious.
2. The real sender of the white gardenia is______.
A. a boy the writer had met
B. the writer’s classmate
C. the old man living across the street
D. the writer’s mother
3. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. A Special Birthday
B. A Graduation Party
C. A mother’s Love
D. A Childhood Dream