Question

In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue   1 . One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet （小鸚鵡）on my finger, I wanted to show Perky what the sky looked like. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my horror , Perky flew off. The enormous, blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue  2   and suddenly he had gone, clipped wings and all. 

I told Kathy about Perky's disappearance and I was anxious that she would blame me. But , unexpectedly, Kathy managed to   3  me. With fake optimism, she even tried to convince me that Perky would find a new    4   . But I was far too clever to   5   that such a thing was possible.

Decades later, I watched my own    6  growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the   7 of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the best of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed（宣稱） to  8  the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog. Then Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and ___9___that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.

"The best thing about Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the  10   we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just  11   down and landed on my finger."

When I was finally able to  12 , we examined the amazing evidence. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all  13 . It seems our two families had been  14  long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were  15 ! Perky lived!"

1.	A．lake B．sky C．parakeet D．backyard

 

2.	A．pleasure B．sadness C．treasure D．sense

 

3.	A．forgive B．comfort C．help D．delight

 

4.	A．parent B．home C．nest D．fellow

 

5.	A．imagine B．suppose C．doubt D．believe

 

6.	A．birds B．happiness C．worries D．children

 

7.	A．parents B．birds C．interests D．games

 

8.	A．catch B．find C．buy D．have

 

9.	A．announced B．said C．retold D．hoped

 

10.	A．day B．place C．way D．story

 

11.	A．floated B．dived C．settled D．went

 

12.	A．think B．speak C．interrupt D．explain

 

13.	A．came up B．turned up C．turned out D．matched up

 

14.	A．known B．fastened C．connected D．introduced

 

15.	A．right B．wrong C．silly D．mad

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.B

5.D

6.D

7.A

8.D

9.A

10.C

11.A

12.B

13.D

14.C

15.A 

【解析】本文是記敘文。作者敘述了一只藍鸚鵡連接兩家人友誼的傳奇故事。小時候作者在和妹妹的藍鸚鵡玩耍時，因為不小心鸚鵡從作者手中飛了，但妹妹堅信鸚鵡會找到自己的新家。很多年以后，當作者成家立業，和另外一家人在野外宿營時，無意中了解到他們小時候得到一只鸚鵡的故事，結果得知他們的那只鸚鵡正是作者當年不小心失去的那只。

1.考查名詞。所選之詞受boundless blue的修飾，沒有限定詞，故應是不可數名詞，所以選B.

2.考查名詞。treasure"珍寶"，說明妹妹對藍鸚鵡非常珍愛。

3.考查動詞。表明妹妹"原諒"了作者，從后文的敘述中可得出結論

4.考查名詞。后文的敘述驗證，藍鸚鵡找到了自己的新"家"。

5.考查動詞。說明作者本人根本不相信妹妹的話。

6.考查名詞。從后文看，作者已經成家立業，有了自己的孩子。

7.考查名詞。由后面the Kissells可得出此答案，此處指的是作者孩子朋友的父母。

8.考查動詞。作為一種游戲和消遣大家各自講述自己寵物的故事，因此這個人說自己擁有最老的金魚。

9.考查動詞。"宣稱"與前面的claim相呼應，表現出主人的自豪感。

10.考查名詞。從下文看， Barry在敘述自己得到藍鸚鵡的"方式"，其他都太片面。

11.考查動詞。"飄落"符合鳥的動作特征。

12.考查動詞。此處說明作者聽到對方的敘述而非常吃驚，最后才能夠"說話"。

13.考查動詞短語。match up當"吻合"講，符合特定的語境：對方所講的一切與作者當年不小心讓藍鸚鵡飛走的情景完全吻合。

14.考查動詞。作者聽了對方的敘述認為兩家的緣分從那只藍鸚鵡飛走的那一刻就開始了，也就是兩家早就"聯系"在一起了。

15.考查形容詞。最后作者不得不相信，妹妹當初所說的一切很"對"。