完形填空(共1小题)
In 1956,Phoenix,Arizona,was a city with boundless blue skies.One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet on my finger,I wanted to show.
Perky the sky looked like.Maybe he could make a little bird out there.I took him into the backyard,and then,to my ,Perky flew off.The enormous blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue and suddenly he had gone,clipping its wings.
Kathy managed to me.With fake optimism,she even tried to reassure me that Perky would find a new .But I was far too clever to that such a thing was possible.
Decades later,I watched my own growing.We shared their activities,spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the of the kids’ friends,the Kissells.The two families went camping around Arizona together.We became the of friends.One evening,the game was to tell Great Pet stories.One person claimed to the oldest living goldfish.Someone else had a psychic dog. Barry,the father of the other family,took the floor and that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet,Sweetie Pie.
“The best thing Sweetie Pie,” he said,“was the we got him.One day,when I was about eight,out of the clear,blue sky,a little blue parakeet just down and landed on my finger.”
When I was finally able to ,we examined the amazing evidence.The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all .It seems ourtwo families had been long before we ever met.Forty years later,I ran to my sister and said,“You were ! Perky lived!”
1.A.what B.how C.which D.where
2.A.food B.nest C.friend D.family
3.A.joy B.horror C.disappointment D.satisfaction
4.A.pleasure B.sadness C.treasure D.sense
5.A.forgive B.comfort C.help D.delight
6.A.parent B.home C.master D.life
7.A.imagine B.suppose C.doubt D.believe
8.A.birds B.happiness C.worries D.children
9.A.parents B.birds C.interests D.games
10.A.first B.best C.last D.happiest
11.A.catch B.find C.buy D.have
12.A.Suddenly B.Fortunately C.Then D.However
13.A.announced B.said C.told D.hoped
14.A.in B.about C.of D.on
15.A.day B.place C.way D.story
16.A.floated B.dived C.settled D.went
17.A.think B.speak C.interrupt D.explain
18.A.came up B.turned up C.turned out D.matched up
19.A.known B.fastened C.connected D.introduced
20.A.right B.wrong C.silly D.mad
Temperatures________ quite dramatically at night in mountains,so put on some warm clothes before going out.
A.are droppedB.drop
C.are being droppedD.have dropped
--Mary,how did your Math test go?
--I had thought I _________,but in fact I came in the top 10 in my class.
A.should have failedB.couldn’t have failed
C.might have failedD.shouldn’t have failed
Though a typhoon is on the way,people are still looking forward _____ the outdoor concert.
A.to cancelingB.not to canceling
C.not to cancelD.to not canceling
--He didn’t feel a bit nervous when ________.
--No.He’d had a lot of time ________ for it after all.
A.interviewing; to prepare
B.interviewed; to prepare
C.interviewing; preparing
D.being interviewed; preparing
I ______ to reach the manager for the last two hours but the line is always busy.
A.triedB.have tried
C.had triedD.have been trying