A group of swans flew down to a beach where a crow (烏鴉) was jumping around. The crow watched them with disdain (鄙視) .

  "You have no flying skills at all！" he said to the swans. "All you can do is to move your wings. Can you turn over in the air? No,that's beyond you. Let's have a flying competition. I'll show you what real flying is!"

  One of the swans,a strong young male,took up the challenge. The crow flew up and began to show off his skills. He flew in circles,performed other flying tricks,and then came down and looked proudly at the vswan.

  Now it was the swan's turn. He flew up,and began flying over the sea. The crow flew after him,making all kinds of comments (評(píng)價(jià)) about his flying. They flew on and on till they couldn't see the land and there was nothing but water on all sides. The crow was making fewer and fewer comments. He was now so exhausted that he found it hard to stay in the air,and had to struggle to stop himself from falling into the water.

  The swan pretended (假裝) not to notice and said, "Why do you keep touching the water,brother? Is that another trick?"

  "No," said the crow. He knew he had lost the competition. "I'm in trouble because of my pride!If you don't help me,Fll lose my life..."

The swan took pity on him,and took him on his back and flew back to the beach.

(   ) 1. What's the correct order of the following events?

    a. The crow showed off his flying skills.

    b. The swan took pity on the crow and saved him.

    c. The crow laughed at the swans' flying.

    d. The crow followed the swan and got into trouble.

    e. The crow challenged the swans and a strong young swan accepted it.

    A. e,c,d,a,b   B. a,e,c,d,b   C. c,e,a,d,b    D .e,a,d,c,b

(   ) 2. What does the underlined word "exhausted" in Paragraph 4 mean?

   A. Tired.    B. Angry.

   C. Frightened. D. Regretful.

(   ) 3. Why did the crow keep touching the water?

   A. Because he was showing another flying skill.

   B. Because he was struggling to stop himself from falling into the water.

   C. Because he was thirsty and wanted to drink some water.

   D. Because he was enjoying himself by doing so.

(   ) 4. What can we infer from the passage?

   A. The crow didn't know flying.

   B. Flying skills were useless.

   C. The swan saved the crow because they were good friends.

   D. The swan was better at longdistance flying than the crow.

(   ) 5. What does the story tell us?

   A. No pains,no gains.

   B. The early bird catches the worm. 

    C. Pride goes before a fall.

   D. Practice makes perfect.

1. c細(xì)節(jié)理解題。通讀全文可知，故事發(fā)生的先后順序?yàn)椋篢he crow laughed at the swans' flying. →The crow challenged the swans and a strong young swan accepted it →The crow showed off his flying skills→The crow followed the swan and got into trouble→The swan took pity on the crow and savedhim。

2. A詞義猜測(cè)題。由題目中的關(guān)鍵詞"exhausted" in Paragraph 4 可回原文定位于第四段。根據(jù)"He was now so exhausted that he found it hard to stay in the air,and had to struggle to stop himself from falling into the water."可知，他發(fā)現(xiàn)自己繼續(xù)待在空中很難因此苦苦掙扎不讓自己掉人水中。從而可猜測(cè)烏鴉十分"疲勞"，因此exhausted的意思是"疲勞的"，相當(dāng)于tired。

3. B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由題目中的關(guān)鍵詞keep touching the water ,可回原文定位于第四段。根據(jù)該段的內(nèi)容可以推斷，它努力掙扎著不讓自己掉人水中。

4. D 推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段可知，它們飛啊飛,天鵝繼續(xù)飛而烏鴉卻變得精疲力竭，由此可以判斷，天鵝更善于長(zhǎng)途飛行。

5. C主旨大意題。文章講述了驕傲的烏鴉輸?shù)袅撕吞禊Z的比賽甚至差點(diǎn)丟掉性命的故事，告訴我們"驕兵必?cái)?。

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