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I.完形填空
Last fall I hung outside my window a bird feeder (喂鸟的食槽). Knowing ___1___ about wild birds, I assumed that ___2___ I hung this bird feeder outside, numbers of beautiful birds would be swooping (飞扑) to my new addition. However, days, weeks, and months ___3___ , NO BIRDS.
I asked so many people, “What to do? ___4___ was I doing wrong?” “Nothing,” most of them replied, “just ___5___!” So I waited and waited and waited, trying everything ___6___ to attract these birds. I cleaned off the deck (平台), ___7___ the feed and washed the feeder. I ___8___ made the cat go out of the other door! Nothing seemed to ___9___. But I waited with patience and ____10____. Two months later, on a Saturday afternoon, I ____11____! What came to my eyes was the most beautiful bird I have ever seen in my life! All of a sudden, hundreds of birds were ____12____ from everywhere!
What a beautiful lesson I learned from this little creature! Patience and hope will attract the beautiful things in life. Yet I had never ____13____ how much patience I really do have and how much I do rely on hope to ____14____ the questions in my heart.
So I keep hoping and waiting, waiting and hoping. I will try to use this “little lesson” with so many other things in my life. I guess patience is a ____15____ after all.
1.A.something B.nothing C.anything D.everything
2.A.once B.since C.until D.before
3.A.ran out B.got through C.went by D.passed on
4.A.When B.Why C.How D.What
5.A.wait B.seek C.try D.watch
6.A.reliable B.movable C.possible D.incredible
7.A.cleared B.picked C.selected D.changed
8.A.still B.even C.just D.too
9.A.run B.work C.do D.go
10.A.courage B.hope C.attention D.desire
11.A.failed B.sighed C.calmed D.froze
12.A.climbing B.spreading C.gathering D.disappearing
13.A.admitted B.recognized C.realized D.neglected
14.A.adjust to B.focus on C.deal with D.make up
15.A.gift B.virtue C.pleasure D.belief
II.七选五
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