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(shí)候抓了一只會(huì)唱歌的鳥(niǎo)關(guān)在籠子里，在吃了鳥(niǎo)媽媽帶來(lái)的食物后，小鳥(niǎo)不幸夭折的故事。這個(gè)故事告訴我們，每個(gè)生物都有自由地活著的權(quán)利。

【1】句意：沒(méi)有一種樂(lè)器比嘲鶇的歌聲更動(dòng)聽(tīng)了。

voice嗓音，指人的說(shuō)話(huà)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(tīng)到的聲音；cry哭/喊聲。根據(jù)句意語(yǔ)境，可知sound符合句意，故選C。

【2】句意：一開(kāi)始，鳥(niǎo)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(lái)”，可知本句描述剛開(kāi)始的樣子，故選D。

【3】句意：我對(duì)自己感到非常滿(mǎn)意，并期待著我的小音樂(lè)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(xiě)下。根據(jù)下文“some beautiful singing from my little musician我的小音樂(lè)家的美妙歌聲”，可知作者對(duì)小鳥(niǎo)的歌聲充滿(mǎn)期待，故選A。

【4】句意：小鳥(niǎo)吃了她帶來(lái)的東西。

something某事，表示不確定；anything任何東西，用于否定句、疑問(wèn)句也用于if或whether之后代替something；nothing沒(méi)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(niǎo)的媽媽叼著食物飛到籠子里”，可知沒(méi)有明確是什么食物，故選C。

【5】句意：第二天早上，當(dāng)我去看我的鳥(niǎo)時(shí)，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(wú)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(tīng)到我為這只鳥(niǎo)的死亡而哭泣……”可知選B。

【6】句意：她認(rèn)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(niǎo)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的幼鳥(niǎo)在籠子里”，可知她認(rèn)為她的孩子死了總比失去自由好，對(duì)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(shí)態(tài)，語(yǔ)態(tài)，要根據(jù)語(yǔ)境，選擇正確的時(shí)態(tài)和語(yǔ)態(tài)的選項(xiàng)；（3）考查從句（賓語(yǔ)從句，定語(yǔ)從句，主語(yǔ)從句等）；（4）根據(jù)固定句型或短語(yǔ)結(jié)合語(yǔ)境選擇正確的選項(xiàng)。本題主要考查單詞或短語(yǔ)辨析，做此類(lèi)型題時(shí)，要知道每一個(gè)詞的意義，然后結(jié)合上下文背景語(yǔ)境，選擇適合語(yǔ)境的選項(xiàng)。例如小題3，四個(gè)選項(xiàng)都是動(dòng)詞短語(yǔ)：looked forward to期待；learned from從……獲得；ran out of用完；wrote down寫(xiě)下。根據(jù)下文“some beautiful singing from my little musician我的小音樂(lè)家的美妙歌聲”，可知作者對(duì)小鳥(niǎo)充滿(mǎn)期待，故選A。