Question

短文填空 从下面方框中选出10个单词，并将其正确形式填写写在答题卡相应题号的位置上，使短文意思正确通顺（每词限用一次）。（共10小题，每小题1分，计10分）

Watching some children trying to catch butterflies one hot August afternoon, I    1.   of one thing in my own childhood．When I was a boy of 12 in South Carolina,     2.    happened to me that I gave up putting any wild animal in a cage forever in my life. We lived on the edge of a wood, and every evening ，the mocking birds （知更鸟）would come and rest in the trees and sing. There isn’t a musical instrument made by man that can make a     3.    beautiful sound than the song of the mockingbird.

I decided that I would catch a young bird and keep it in a cage and in that way would have my own   4.  musician. I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage. At first, in its fight at being caught, the bird fluttered(拍翅膀) about the cage, but at last it kept calm in its new home. I felt very pleased with     5.   and looked forward to the beautiful      6.     from my little musician.

I had left the cage out on our back yard, and on the second day my new     7.     mother flew to the cage with food in her mouth. The baby bird ate everything she brought to it. I was pleased to see this.   8.    the mother knew better than I how to feed her baby.

The following morning when I went to see how the bird was doing, I discovered it on the floor of the cage, dead.

I was quite     9.   ! What had happened! I had taken excellent care of my little bird, or so I thought.

Arthur Wayne, the famous ornithologist(鸟类学家), happened to be visiting my father at the time, hearing me crying over the death of my bird, and he gave me an explanation of something that had happened. “A mother mockingbird, finding her young in a cage, will sometimes bring it poison（有毒的） berries. She thinks it better for her young to die than to live in cages.”

Never since then have I caught any living creature (生物) and put it in a cage. All living creatures have a right(权力)     10.   .

Answer

1.was reminded

2.something

3.more

4.private

5.myself

6.singing

7.pet’s

8.Certainly

9.surprised

10.to live free

【解析】

试题分析：本文叙述了作者小的时候抓了一只仿声鸟，想让它为自己唱歌，于是就把它放在笼子里养着，结果有一天，小鸟死了，经过专家的指点才知，是鸟妈妈看见小鸟被关在笼子里失去了自由，还不如让小鸟去死，于是鸟妈妈给小鸟吃了有毒的果实，把它毒死了。因此，作者告诫我们一定要爱护鸟给它们自由。

1.1】句意：在一个炎热的八月份的下午观看孩子们捕捉蝴蝶，我想起了我童年的一件事情。此题考查被动语态，remind sb of sth提醒某人某事，这里句子的主语与动词之间是被动关系。根据句意，故填was reminded。

2.2】句意：当我还是南卡罗来纳州的12岁的男孩时，一些事情发生在我身上，我在我的生命中永远放弃了把任何野生动物放在笼子里的事。此题考查不定代词，根据汉语意思，故填something。

3.3】句意：没有一种乐器的，可以比鸟发出更漂亮的声音。根据后面的than可知，这里用形容词的比较级，故填more。

4.4】句意：我决定我要抓住一只小鸟，并把它放在一个笼子里，这样就可以有我自己的私人音乐家了。根据上文I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage可知，把鸟抓住占为己有，变成私人的，此题考查形容词，根据句意，故填private。

5.5】句意：我感到非常高兴，并期待着美丽的歌声来自我的小音乐家。feel very pleased with感觉很满意。此题考查反身代词。根据句意。故填myself。

6.6】句意：我感到非常高兴，并期待着美丽的歌声来自我的小音乐家。looked forward to doing盼望做某事。此题考查动名词，根据句意，故填singing。

7.7】句意：我把笼子放在后院了，第二天，我的新宠物妈妈带着食物飞到笼子里。因为空格后是名词，此题考查名词所有格，故填pet’s。

8.8】句意：当然，母亲比我更了解怎样喂养自己的孩子。此题考查副词，根据句意，故填Certainly。

9.句意：我很惊讶。此题考查形容词，人感到吃惊用surprised，故填surprised。

10.所有的是生物都有自由生存的权利。此题考查不定式，根据句意，故填to live free。

考点：考查短文填空。