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一.(试题原题)
December 1952 in Wisconsin,was bitterly cold.A curious 7-year-old,I was in
hesitation when my father arrived home from work with something hidden in his
jacket."Guess what I have"he said.He slowly unwrapped the jacket to take out a
frozen owl (.He'd found the frozen bird on his car when he left work and
guessed that it had flown into the windshield(挡风玻璃),
1952年12月在威斯康辛州,天气非常寒冷。我是一个好奇的7岁孩子,当
父亲下班回家时,夹克里藏着什么东西,我犹豫了。“猜猜我有什么”他说。他
慢慢地打开夹克拿出一只冻猫头鹰(猫头鹰).下班时,他在车上发现了这只结冰
的鸟,并猜测它撞到了挡风玻璃上(挡风玻璃).
Dad thought it might be alive and wanted to let it warm up.My mother agreed to let
the bird stay overnight,so Dad and I took it to the basement (and carefully
laid it near our coal stove.I was the first one into the kitchen the next morning for a
bowl of cereal (.I found the owl resting on the sugar bowl as if waiting for its
breakfast.I hurried to tell my parents that the owl was alive and sitting at the kitchen
table.Mom didn't like that it was in the kitchen and wanted it out of the house.
爸爸认为它可能还活着,想让它暖和起来。我妈妈同意让这只鸟过夜,所以爸爸
和我把它带到地下室(地下室)小心地把它放在我们的煤炉附近。第二天早上,
我是第一个进厨房吃麦片的人(麦片),我发现猫头鹰在糖碗上休息,好像在等它
的早餐。我赶紧告诉父母猫头鹰还活着,坐在厨房的桌子旁。妈妈不喜欢它在厨
房里,想把它赶出家门。
Dad instructed me to open the back door while he forced the owl toward me.I
heard the flapping of wings,but before I could direct its flight outside,the owl tumed
around away from the cold air coming in the door and flew past me,down the stairs
into the shelter of the warm basement.Resting in the space near the top of the
basement,the owl was safely beyond our reach.We tried driving it out with a broom,
but it calmly flew to the far side of the basement.Soon Dad and I were laughing too
hard to continue,and we realized there was no way we could drive the owl out if it
wanted to stay.Mom agreed to have it in the house until Dad could catch it when it
became weak from hunger.But that never happened.
爸爸指示我打开后门,同时强迫猫头鹰向我靠近。我听到翅膀拍打的声音,但还
没来得及指引它飞到外面,猫头鹰就转身避开了进来的冷空气,从我身边飞过,
下楼梯进入温暖的地下室。猫头鹰在地下室顶部附近的空地上休息,安全地在我
们够不着的地方。我们试着用扫帚把它赶出去,但它平静地飞到了地下