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 of one thing in my own childhood．When I was a boy of 12 in South Carolina,
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
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 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
and looked forward to the beautiful
from my little musician.
I had left the cage out on our back yard, and on the second day my new 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.
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 ! 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) .
Moblog is a combination of two words. The first word is mobile, which a mobile camera phone. The second word is blog, a website for posting words and pictures. Typically, mobloggers are people who take photos or videos with their phones and post them on the Internet. Moblogging has caused a lot of excitement. It has also caused a lot of
.
With a picture phone or a moblog, anyone can be a reporter. Moblogging first got the world’sduring a terrorist attack on four London buses. People were posting photos on the Internet many minutes before real reporters could get there. Similarly, information about car accidents has been
right away.
| A. care B. chat C. broadcast D. means E. attention |
When I was in Germany, I bought two nice________ for my parents. (watch)
Although Angela lost her way to the hotel, she finally got there by ________. (she)
This is the ________ time for me to further my English study in America. (one)
A friendly lady greeted me in a ________voice as soon as I got into the shop. (gently)
The string of the kite suddenly broke and the kite ________. (appear)
It is ________ believed that online shopping provides us with many benefits. (wide)
Shanghai Disneyland will bring __________ to the tourists in the near future. (happy)
It was for a girl to learn Spanish well at the age of five. (usual)
I knew we needed to find that shoe, for our mother couldn’t afford new shoes. I had to go back to find it, so I told my sister to wait right .
A man heard it and stopped me just I walked off. He asked me, “You are leaving your sister here to find the shoe? What would you do if she is not here when you return?” I didn’t know how to answer that question. He
, “It’s OK if you can’t find the shoe, but it is not OK to lose your sister.” Then he sent us to mum’s workplace by taxi.
During my whole life I have depended on the kindness of many strangers, I feel sorry that I can’t find them and say ‘thank you’. I do not even remember what their faces , but they taught me a lesson --- people are more important than things.
| A. crying B. laughing C. shoes D. all the time E. asleep |
When I was ten, my mother worked all day, so I had to take care of my younger sister. At that time, my little sister was about four years old and she missed mum .
One day, after I had given her dinner, she started for mum. She was so young and really needed mum. So I dressed her up, put on her
, carried her on my back and walked out. Soon she fell
.
About half an hour later, I found that she had lost a shoe while sleeping. I took her off my back and put her down.
| care about use to even though get on come up with |
We went on working in the field, _______ it rained heavily.
I _______ have short hair, but now I grow it long.
That boy, never _______ what his teachers say.
We are sure that scientists have _______ to solve the difficult problem.
We also learn how to _______ well with other students.