Question

完形填空。

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案，并将其字母标号填入题前括号内。

A hippo(河马) lived in a river next to a big tree. One day, _______ bird came to live in the tree. The bird sang all day up there, and the hippo thought she was so talented(有天赋的). He felt ________ that he was a hippo. But the bird told him he should feel happy because he was so big and he ________ swimming.

One day, the hippo decided to come out of the _______ and climb up the tree to sing like a bird. Of course, he ________ climb up the tree. The hippo got very angry, so he knocked the tree over(撞倒) with his big _______. Then he stood on the leaves of the tree and began ________.

Sadly, the hippo couldn't sing. He made terrible noise, and when the other animals ________ his singing, they all laughed at him. The hippo felt bad and ________ trying to act like a bird. He decided to go back to his ________ way of life. Once again, he lived in the river happily. "In fact my ordinary(平常的) life is nice and interesting." he thought.

1.A. a                  B. an              C. the               D. /

2.A. surprised          B. sad             C. excited           D. calm

3.A. was interested in  B. was sure about  C. was friendly to   D. was good at

4.A. hall              B. river          C. zoo              D. house

5.A. must              B. mustn't         C. could             D. couldn't

6.A. sound             B. idea           C. body             D. dream

7.A. singing            B. sleeping        C. swimming          D. talking

8.A. believed           B. heard           C. showed            D. cared

9.A. began              B. remembered      C. forgot            D. stopped

10.A. unhealthy         B. bad             C. old               D. unusual

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.D

4.B

5.D

6.C

7.A

8.B

9.D

10.C

【解析】

试题分析：短文大意：一只河马羡慕小鸟的歌喉，想像她那样唱歌。有一天，河马决定从河里出来，爬到树上像鸟一样唱歌。由于自己的体重爬不上树，就用身体把树撞倒，站到树枝上继续唱歌，其它的动物听到河马的歌声后，都嘲笑他。河马受到了嘲笑，不在坚持自己的做法，回到自己的去处，恢复往日的那种生活方式，又重新快活起来。

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考点：考查故事类短文。