When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies of southern Alberta from the Blackfoot Blood Reserve in northern Montana where I was born．I loved this bird; I would ________ him for hours. He would ________ effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the ________ and float there beautifully．Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move ________ into the grasses．We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language ________ “pink-colored feet”; meksikatsi and I became very good friends.
The bird had a very particular significance to me ________ I desperately wanted to be able to fly too．I felt very much as if I was the kind of person who had been born into a world where ________ was impossible. And most of the things that I ________ about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other people．
When I was ten years old, something unexpected ________ my life suddenly. I found myself become an ________ child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a ________ position that many native Americans find themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but ________ two cultures．
A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what ________ people have called that bird for thousands of years．Meksikatsi, he said, was really “duck”．I was very ________ with English．I could not understand it．First of all, the bird did not look like “duck”, and when it made a ________, it did not sound like “duck”, I was even more ________ when I found out that the meaning of the verb “to duck” came from the bird．
As I ________ to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of ________, but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning．I ________ that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different ________, totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world．
1.A．keepB．watchC．followD．search
2.A．jumpB．diveC．circleD．wander
3.A．nestB．hillC．waterD．road
4.A．quicklyB．naturallyC．freelyD．quietly
5.A．meansB．readsC．showsD．states
6.A．thoughB．becauseC．whileD．until
7.A．communicationB．imaginationC．beliefD．flight
8.A．dreamedB．worriedC．knewD．argued
9.A．improvedB．enrichedC．changedD．ruined
10.A．educatedB．adoptedC．outgoingD．independent
11.A．weakB．comfortableC．terribleD．central
12.A．betweenB．againstC．withoutD．beyond
13.A．mostB．fewC．theirD．my
14.A．desperateB．bored
C．uncomfortableD．disappointed
15.A．noiseB．callC．decisionD．choice
16.A．ashamedB．confusedC．embarrassedD．frightened
17.A．triedB．cameC．determinedD．expected
18.A．evidenceB．distinctionC．profitD．sense
19.A．identifiedB．confirmedC．realizedD．predicted
20.A．conceptsB．regulationsC．messagesD．evaluations
—I promise her daughter ________ get a nice present on her birthday.
—Will it be a big surprise to her?
A. shouldB. mustC. wouldD. shall
I still remember my happy childhood when my mother ________ take me to Disneyland at weekends.
A. mightB. mustC. wouldD. should
－Mary, how did your Math test go?
－I had thought I ________, but in fact I came in the top 10 in my class.
A. should have failed
B. couldn’t have failed
C. might have failed
D. shouldn’t have failed
—I didn’t know your telephone number in Paris; otherwise, I ________ you.
—Oh, I would rather you ________ me.
A. would have called; had called
B. would ring; call
C. would have called; called
D. would ring; had called
—Why! I couldn’t get you on the phone this morning.
—We ________ tennis in the yard when you phoned me.
A. could be playing
B. must be playing
C. must have been playing
D. should have played
