Question

【題目】 When I was twelve years old, my family lived next to a forest. Every evening, mockingbirds( 知更鳥 ) would come and rest in the trees and sing. I enjoyed________________ singing so much that I decided to catch a young bird. In this way, I______________hear it sing for me every day.

I finally managed________________one and put it in a cage. At first, the bird was very frightened, so it fluttered( 撲騰) in _______________new home all the time. Several days________________, it was used to living in this new home.

The next day, the little bird’s mother flew to the cage with some food in her mouth. The baby bird looked very happy and ate everything________________the mother brought to it. I was so happy to see this, for the mother knew how to take care of her baby_______________than me.

But________________the next morning, I found it died. I was terribly surprised and cried at once. I didn’t know what happened.

Arthur Wayne, my father’s friend, was a famous ornithologist(鳥類學(xué)家). She visited my father at that time._________she knew the whole thing, she explained to me,”If a mother mockingbird finds her baby is kept in a cage, she will bring it poisonous berries (毒梅). She thinks it’s better for her baby to die than to lose freedom.”

Since then I________________any living animal in a cage. All living things have a right to live free.

【1】A.aB.anC.theD./

【2】A.couldB.needC.mustD.should

【3】A.getB.gettingC.to getD.gets

【4】A.it’sB.itsC.itD.its’

【5】A.lateB.latestC.latelyD.later

【6】A.thatB.whichC.whoD.whom

【7】A.goodB.wellC.betterD.best

【8】A.inB.forC.atD.on

【9】A.IfB.WhenC.BecauseD.Although

【10】A.haven’t caughtB.won’t catchC.don’t catchD.didn’t catch

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】A

【3】C

【4】B

【5】D

【6】A

【7】C

【8】D

【9】B

【10】A

【解析】

本文是一篇記述文。主要講述了“我”在小的時候?yàn)榱四苊刻炻牭街�更鳥的歌聲，抓了一只小知更鳥養(yǎng)在籠子里。在鳥媽媽銜著食物過來喂小鳥的第二天，小鳥卻無緣無故地死掉了。“我”為此變得很傷心。爸爸的鳥類學(xué)家朋友告訴“我”說：鳥媽媽給小鳥喂了毒梅才會死去的，因?yàn)樗�覺得它的孩子比起失去自由，死去會更好。自那以后我懂得了所有生物都有自由地活著的權(quán)利。

【1】句意：我非常享受這個歌聲以致于我決定去抓一只小知更鳥。

考查冠詞的辨析。前文已經(jīng)提及一次知更鳥唱歌，本題是第二次提及，應(yīng)用定冠詞the。故選C。

【2】句意：這樣，我就可以天天聽它為我唱歌了。

could可以，能夠；need需要；must必須；should應(yīng)該。根據(jù)“…I decided to catch a young bird”可知，“我”抓鳥是為了可以天天聽它歌唱。故選A。

【3】句意：我最終設(shè)法抓住了一只（知更鳥）然后把它放到一個籠子里。

考查固定搭配。manage to do sth. “設(shè)法做成某事”，故選C。

【4】句意：起初，小鳥非常害怕，所以它總是在它的新家里面撲騰。

考查語法物主代詞。it’s它是；its它的；it它；its’是錯誤表達(dá)。該題空后面的中心詞是名詞，應(yīng)用形容詞性物主代詞修飾。故選B。

【5】句意：幾天過后，它適應(yīng)了住在這個新家。

late晚的，遲的；latest最新的，最近的；lately近來，最近；later以后，過后。根據(jù)“it was used to living in this new home”可知，小鳥已經(jīng)適應(yīng)了這個新家，那時間應(yīng)該是幾天過后。故選D。

【6】句意：這個鳥寶寶看起來非常開心，吃掉了鳥媽媽帶給它的所有東西。

考查語法定語從句關(guān)系詞。先行詞有all，much，everything，anything，something等不定代詞，一般關(guān)系詞只能用that。故選A。

【7】句意：我看到鳥媽媽喂食非常開心，因?yàn)轼B媽媽比我知道怎樣能把她的孩子照顧得更好。

考查語法比較級。關(guān)鍵詞“than（比）”提示本題需用比較級；good形容詞，well副詞，better比較級，best更高級。故選C。

【8】句意：但是第二天早上，我發(fā)現(xiàn)它死掉了。

考查介詞辨析。具體某一天的上午，下午，傍晚用介詞on修飾。故選D。

【9】句意：當(dāng)他知道整件事情的時候，他向我解釋說“如果一個知更鳥媽媽發(fā)現(xiàn)她的孩子被放在籠子里，她就會給它帶毒梅。她認(rèn)為對她的孩子來說，比起失去自由，死掉會更好�！�

考查連詞辨析。if如果；when當(dāng)……時候；because因?yàn)椋?/span>although盡管�！傍B類學(xué)家知道鳥死亡”，和“他向我解釋”這兩個動作是幾乎同時發(fā)生，所以用時間連詞when比較合適。故選B。

【10】句意：自那以后我再也沒有抓任何生物放在籠子里了。

考查語法現(xiàn)在完成時�！�since then”表示時間從過去持續(xù)到現(xiàn)在，符合現(xiàn)在完成時的定義。B選項(xiàng)過去將來時，C選項(xiàng)一般現(xiàn)在時，D選項(xiàng)一般過去式。故選A。

句子“I was so happy to see this, for the mother knew how to take care of her baby better than me .”中，“for”不是常見的作介詞，而是作連詞，表“因?yàn)椤钡囊馑肌?/span>