Question

【題目】

When I was a boy of twelve in South Carolina, something happened to me that made me never put any wild animal in a cage.

We lived near a forest, and every evening the mockingbirds （嘲鶇） would come and rest in the trees and sing. There isn't a musical instrument that can make a more beautiful _______ than the song of the mockingbird.

I decided to catch a young bird and keep it in a cage, and in this way, I would have my own private musician.

Finally I succeeded in catching a baby bird and put it in a cage. _______ , being frightened, the bird fluttered （撲騰） in the cage, but finally it settled down in its new home. I felt very pleased with myself and _______ : some beautiful singing from my little musician.

On the second day, the little bird's mother flew to the cage with food in her mouth. The baby bird ate _______ she brought to it. I was happy to see this. Certainly the mother bird knew how to feed her baby than I did.

The following morning when I went to see my bird, I discovered it on the floor of the cage, _______ . . I was terribly surprised! What had happened!

Arthur Wayne, my neighbor, who heard me crying over the death of the bird explained to me. Another bird, finding her young baby in a cage, will sometimes bring it poisonous （有毒的） berries. She thinks it better for her baby to die than to lose _______. What do you think of it?

【1】A.voiceB.noiseC.soundD.cry

【2】A.At leastB.At lastC.FirstlyD.At first

【3】A.looked forward toB.learned fromC.ran out ofD.wrote down

【4】A.anythingB.nothingC.somethingD.everything

【5】A.dyingB.deadC.boredD.tired

【6】A.friendsB.parentsC.freedomD.happiness

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】A

【4】C

【5】B

【6】C

【解析】

短文大意：本文是記敘文，講述了“我”小時候抓了一只會唱歌的鳥關(guān)在籠子里，在吃了鳥媽媽帶來的食物后，小鳥不幸夭折的故事。這個故事告訴我們，每個生物都有自由地活著的權(quán)利。

【1】句意：沒有一種樂器比嘲鶇的歌聲更動聽了。

voice嗓音，指人的說話聲或唱歌聲；noise噪音，常指不悅耳、不和諧的嘈雜聲；sound聲音，泛指一切可以聽到的聲音；cry哭/喊聲。根據(jù)句意語境，可知sound符合句意，故選C。

【2】句意：一開始，鳥很害怕，在籠子里撲騰。

At least至少；At last最后；Firstly最初；At first起初。根據(jù)下文“but finally it settled down in its new home但最后它在新家安頓下來”，可知本句描述剛開始的樣子，故選D。

【3】句意：我對自己感到非常滿意，并期待著我的小音樂家能唱出一些美妙的歌曲。

looked forward to期待；learned from從……獲得；ran out of用完；wrote down寫下。根據(jù)下文“some beautiful singing from my little musician我的小音樂家的美妙歌聲”，可知作者對小鳥的歌聲充滿期待，故選A。

【4】句意：小鳥吃了她帶來的東西。

something某事，表示不確定；anything任何東西，用于否定句、疑問句也用于if或whether之后代替something；nothing沒有什么，表否定；everything每件事，指所有事物。根據(jù)上文“the little bird's mother flew to the cage with food in her mouth小鳥的媽媽叼著食物飛到籠子里”，可知沒有明確是什么食物，故選C。

【5】句意：第二天早上，當我去看我的鳥時，我發(fā)現(xiàn)它在籠子的地板上死了。

dying臨死的；dead死亡的；bored無聊的；tired疲倦的。根據(jù)下文“Arthur Wayne, my neighbor, who heard me crying over the death of the bird explained to me我的鄰居亞瑟·韋恩聽到我為這只鳥的死亡而哭泣……”可知選B。

【6】句意：她認為她的孩子死了總比失去自由好。

friends朋友；parents父母；freedom自由；happiness幸福。than表比較，根據(jù)上文“Another bird, finding her young baby in a cage另一只鳥發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的幼鳥在籠子里”，可知她認為她的孩子死了總比失去自由好，對應(yīng)了文章的主旨，自由很珍貴，故選C。

完形填空。主要題型有（1）考查詞義辨析：名詞辨析，形容詞副詞辨析，冠詞辨析，介詞連詞辨析等；（2）考查句子時態(tài)，語態(tài)，要根據(jù)語境，選擇正確的時態(tài)和語態(tài)的選項；（3）考查從句（賓語從句，定語從句，主語從句等）；（4）根據(jù)固定句型或短語結(jié)合語境選擇正確的選項。本題主要考查單詞或短語辨析，做此類型題時，要知道每一個詞的意義，然后結(jié)合上下文背景語境，選擇適合語境的選項。例如小題3，四個選項都是動詞短語：looked forward to期待；learned from從……獲得；ran out of用完；wrote down寫下。根據(jù)下文“some beautiful singing from my little musician我的小音樂家的美妙歌聲”，可知作者對小鳥充滿期待，故選A。