Question

补全短文。

Mr Smith is 84 years old now. He has seen many changes in his hometown.

He knows that things are ______ now. But he never ______ the old days. He likes to talk about them. He often talks about his favorite ______, the robins(知更鸟). "When I was a boy, there were not these houses here. There were wide fields and tall trees. Every ______ the robins would come. Thousands of them would ______ up to the north from the south. They ______ the winter in the ______. Some would build their nests(巢) in the trees near our houses. Then people started to cut down trees in order to ______ more houses and grow crops. The robins stopped coming. They couldn't build their nests near our houses ______ there were no trees."

"Now there are too many houses and too many roads. ______ there are no places for the robins. They won't come any more," Mr Smith says sadly.

Answer

1.different/changed

2.forgets

3.birds

4.spring

5.fly

6.spent

7.south

8.build

9.because

10.But

【解析】

试题分析：

1. has seen many changes in his hometown."可知,他的家乡发生了巨大的变化,空格前有系动词are,此处可用different或changed.

2.

3. robins可知,此空需填bird的复数形式birds,与the robins对应。

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9. Smith家附近筑巢。

10.