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三、完形填空(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分) There was once a lonely girl who wanted love very much. One day while she was walking in the forests, she found two dying birds. She took them home and put them in a small ___1___. She was happy to have two “friends”. She __ 2 __ them with love and the birds grew strong. One day the girl happened to leave the door of the cage open. The larger and the___ 3___ of the two flew out of the cage. The girl was afraid that it would fly away. She caught it quickly, she felt glad that she caught the bird before it could fly away. Suddenly she couldn’t 4 __ a sound from the bird. When she opened her hand, the bird was already dead. Her_ 5___ killed the bird! Then she noticed ___ 6 __bird jumping up and down ___7__ the cage. She could feel its great need for freedom(自由) . It wanted to fly into the clear, blue __8___. So she lifted it from the cage and let it fly away highly. The bird circled once, twice, and three times. The girl __ 9 as the bird flew. She didn’t care about losing the bird any more. She wanted it to be happy. Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder. It sang the ___10___ song she had ever heard. The fastest way to lose love is to hold on it too tightly, and the best way to keep love is to give it wings. ( ) 1. A. box B. basket C. cage D. bag ( ) 2. A. looked for B. looked at C. looked after D. looked over ( ) 3. A. stronger B. lazier C. weaker D. smaller ( ) 4. A. listen B. make C. describe D. hear ( ) 5. A. love B. joke C. luck D. wish ( ) 6. A. one B, the other C. another D. other ( ) 7. A. outside B. inside C. beside D. behind ( ) 8. A. sea B. hill C. forest D. sky ( ) 9. A. watched B. saw C. guided D. escaped(逃脱) ( ) 10. A. worst B. oldest C. newest D. sweetest 四、阅读理解(共20 小题，每小题2分，共40分。) ( A ) A crow(乌鸦) is about twenty inches(英寸) long and black all over. Crows are dirty birds because they live on bad food. Crows eat a lot of waste food. In this way they are more useful to us than any birds. They clean up the dirty things in our streets. Crows are always hungry. They look for food all day, and in the evening you can see them in large numbers flying back to their nests(巢) in the trees. They sleep there at night. Crows are much noisier than other birds. Very often a large number of crows will get together on one house and talk. Sometimes they talk together, and sometimes they do it by turns(轮流) like human beings(人类). It is easy to tell(判断) from crow’s sound if they are pleased or angry. Perhaps crows talk a lot because they are friendly birds. A pair of crows will live together all their lives, and if one of them dies, the other one becomes very sad and quiet for the rest of its life and some time later it dies too. ( ) 1. Crows “live on bad food” means “ _________ ”. A. Crows eat old bad food. B. Old bad food is crows’ nests. C. Crows make their nests on old bad food. D. Crows sleep on old bad food. ( ) 2. Crows are more useful to us because they ________________. A. are clean birds B. can move away waste food C. can make our streets clean D. aren’t dirty ( ) 3. Crows always look for food _________. A. in the evening B. all day C. in the morning D. at night ( ) 4. People can’t hear crow talk __________. A. together B. by turns C. noisily D. quietly ( ) 5. If a pair of crows loves each other, ________ A. they will not live together. B. neither of them can live alone happily. C. they will die D. one of them will die ( B ) Death Valley, an area in Nevada and California, is one of the most famous deserts in the United States. Almost 20 percent of this area is below sea level. Badwater, a salt water pool, is about 280 feet below sea level and it is the lowest point in the United States. (责任编辑：admin) |