One day last summer, watching the boys and girls trying to catch butterflies I remembered something happened when I was young.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. No musician can sing more beautiful than the birds. 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, the bird flied 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, and on the second day 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 bird was doing, I discovered it on the floor of the cage, dead. I was shocked! What had happened! I had taken good care of my little bird.
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 cage.”
Never since then have I caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living creatures have a right to live free.
1.Why did the writer catch a mockingbird when he was a boy of 12?
A.He had just got a new cage. |
B.He liked its beautiful feather. |
C.He wanted a pet for a companion. |
D.He wanted it to sing for him. |
2.The mockingbird died because it ______.
A.drank the poisonous water by mistake |
B.was frightened to death |
C.refused to eat anything |
D.ate the poisonous food its mother gave it |
3.An ornithologist probably means ______.
A.a religious person |
B.a kind person |
C.an expert in birds |
D.a schoolmaster |
4.What is the most important lesson the writer learned from the incident?
A.Freedom is very valuable to all living things. |
B.All birds put in a cage won’t live long. |
C.You should keep the birds from their mother. |
D.Be careful about food you give to baby birds. |
Long long ago, there was a man who was good at shooting arrows.He asked the king to declare him as the greatest archer(射手) of the country.The king was about to do so when an old servant of the king said,“Wait,sir.I know an old man who lives in the forest.He is a much greater archer.Let this young man go to him and learn from him for at least three years.”
The man could not believe what the servant said,but he went and found the old man and he was! For three years he learned from him.Then one day,when he thought he had learned everything,the thought arose in him:“If I kill this old man,then I will be the greatest archer.”
The old man had gone to cut wood and he was coming back carrying wood on his shoulder.The young man hid behind a tree,waiting to kill him.He shot an arrow.The old man took a small piece of wood and threw it.It struck the arrow and the arrow turned back and wounded the young man very deeply.The old man came,took out the arrow and said。“I knew that some day or other you were going to do this.That’s why I have not taught you this secret.There is no need to kill me.My Master is still alive,and I’m nothing before him.You must be with him for at least thirty years.And he is very old,so go fast! Find the old man!”
1.The young archer wanted to kill the old man because_______.
A.he could then become the greatest archer |
B.he had nothing more to learn from him |
C.the old man refused to teach him everything |
D.the king’s old servant ordered him to do SO |
2.What do you think would most probably happen next?
A.The young archer died from the wound soon after. |
B.The king declared the young man the greatest archer. |
C.The young archer found the old man’s master and killed him. |
D.The young archer set off to look for the old man’s master. |
3.What lesson can you learn from the story?
A.Always use a piece of wood to protect yourself from an arrow. |
B.You must never try to become better than your teacher. |
C.The older a man is,the better archer he usually becomes. |
D.There’s always someone better than you in this world. |
I will never forget what happened to me that day. That afternoon,I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive. Suddenly I 16 that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, 17 he knew me. The man had a newspaper 18 in front of him, which he was 19 to read, but I could 20 that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my 21 the man was clearly puzzled (困惑) by the 22 way in which the waiter and I 23 each other. He seemed even more puzzled as 24 went on and it became 25 that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the 26 . When he came out, he paid his bill and 27 without another glance in my direction.
I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had 28 . “Well,” he said, “that man was a detective (侦探). He 29 you here because he thought you were the man he 30 . ” “What?” I said, showing my 31 . The owner continued, “He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I 32 say he looked very much like you! Of course, since we know you, we told him that he had made a 33 ”. “Well, it’s really 34 I came to a restaurant where I’m known,” I said. “ 35 , I might have been in trouble. ”
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