Question

In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue1. 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 blue2and 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 to3me. With fake optimism, she even tried to convince me that Perky would find a new 4 . But I was far too clever to5that such a thing was possible.
Decades later, I watched my own6growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the7of 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) to8the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog. Then Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and 9that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.
"The best thing about Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the10we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just11down and landed on my finger."
When I was finally able to12, we examined the amazing evidence. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all 13. It seems our two families had been14long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were15! Perky lived!"

1. 1.
   1. A.
      lake
   2. B.
      sky
   3. C.
      parakeet
   4. D.
      backyard
2. 2.
   1. A.
      pleasure
   2. B.
      sadness
   3. C.
      treasure
   4. D.
      sense
3. 3.
   1. A.
      forgive
   2. B.
      comfort
   3. C.
      help
   4. D.
      delight
4. 4.
   1. A.
      parent
   2. B.
      home
   3. C.
      nest
   4. D.
      fellow
5. 5.
   1. A.
      imagine
   2. B.
      suppose
   3. C.
      doubt
   4. D.
      believe
6. 6.
   1. A.
      birds
   2. B.
      happiness
   3. C.
      worries
   4. D.
      children
7. 7.
   1. A.
      parents
   2. B.
      birds
   3. C.
      interests
   4. D.
      games
8. 8.
   1. A.
      catch
   2. B.
      find
   3. C.
      buy
   4. D.
      have
9. 9.
   1. A.
      announced
   2. B.
      said
   3. C.
      retold
   4. D.
      hoped
10. 10.
    1. A.
       day
    2. B.
       place
    3. C.
       way
    4. D.
       story
11. 11.
    1. A.
       floated
    2. B.
       dived
    3. C.
       settled
    4. D.
       went
12. 12.
    1. A.
       think
    2. B.
       speak
    3. C.
       interrupt
    4. D.
       explain
13. 13.
    1. A.
       came up
    2. B.
       turned up
    3. C.
       turned out
    4. D.
       matched up
14. 14.
    1. A.
       known
    2. B.
       fastened
    3. C.
       connected
    4. D.
       introduced
15. 15.
    1. A.
       right
    2. B.
       wrong
    3. C.
       silly
    4. D.
       mad

Answer 1

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本文是記敘文。作者敘述了一只藍(lán)鸚鵡連接兩家人友誼的傳奇故事。小時(shí)候作者在和妹妹的藍(lán)鸚鵡玩耍時(shí)，因?yàn)椴恍⌒柠W鵡從作者手中飛了，但妹妹堅(jiān)信鸚鵡會(huì)找到自己的新家。很多年以后，當(dāng)作者成家立業(yè)，和另外一家人在野外宿營(yíng)時(shí)，無(wú)意中了解到他們小時(shí)候得到一只鸚鵡的故事，結(jié)果得知他們的那只鸚鵡正是作者當(dāng)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(méi)有限定詞，故應(yīng)是不可數(shù)名詞，所以選B.
2.考查名詞。treasure"珍寶"，說(shuō)明妹妹對(duì)藍(lán)鸚鵡非常珍愛(ài)。
3.考查動(dòng)詞。表明妹妹"原諒"了作者，從后文的敘述中可得出結(jié)論
4.考查名詞。后文的敘述驗(yàn)證，藍(lán)鸚鵡找到了自己的新"家"。
5.考查動(dòng)詞。說(shuō)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(jīng)成家立業(yè)，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(dòng)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(gè)人說(shuō)自己擁有最老的金魚。
9.考查動(dòng)詞。"宣稱"與前面的claim相呼應(yīng)，表現(xiàn)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(lán)鸚鵡的"方式"，其他都太片面。
11.考查動(dòng)詞。"飄落"符合鳥的動(dòng)作特征。
12.考查動(dòng)詞。此處說(shuō)明作者聽(tīng)到對(duì)方的敘述而非常吃驚，最后才能夠"說(shuō)話"。
13.考查動(dòng)詞短語(yǔ)。match up當(dāng)"吻合"講，符合特定的語(yǔ)境：對(duì)方所講的一切與作者當(dāng)年不小心讓藍(lán)鸚鵡飛走的情景完全吻合。
14.考查動(dòng)詞。作者聽(tīng)了對(duì)方的敘述認(rèn)為兩家的緣分從那只藍(lán)鸚鵡飛走的那一刻就開(kāi)始了，也就是兩家早就"聯(lián)系"在一起了。
15.考查形容詞。最后作者不得不相信，妹妹當(dāng)初所說(shuō)的一切很"對(duì)"。