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相约名校·高中同步学业测评周周练·英语卷(四)
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1.阅读理解(共4小题:每小题5分,满分20分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
A pet parrot that spoke with a British accent when it disappeared from its home four years
ago has been reunited with its owner and it now speaks Spanish.
It was reported that the reunion was brought about by a Southern California vet Teresa
Micco who mistook Nigel,an African gray parrot,for her own missing bird.
Micco tracked Nigel's microchip (to Darren Chick,a Britain who lives in Torrance.
“I introduced myself and said,‘Have you lost a bird?'”Micco told the newspaper..“He
initially said,'No.He thought I meant recently."When she confirmed Chick's name and
said she had his African grey parrot,"He looked at me like I was crazy.He said his bird
went missing four years earlier.
Little is known about what happened to Nigel in the past four years,but Chick says the
bird's British accent is gone,and it now speaks in Spanish.
Chick says last week's reunion brought tears of joy to his eyes-despite the fact that Nigel
bit him when he first tried to pick him up.Micco said the behavior was usual and that Nigel
would settle back in soon enough.
"He's doing perfect,"Chick told the newspaper by the week's end."It's really strange.I
knew it was him from the minute I saw him."
It's the fifth parrot reunion helped by Micco,who has been running ads for her own
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missing bird for nine months.That parrot,Benjamin,flew suddenly in February when a door
was left open.
Sperling found Nigel outside her home and brought him to Micco after seeing one of her
ads.But first,she took Nigel to her dog-grooming business(狗狗美容业务).“He was the
happiest bird.He was singing and talking without control,"Sperling said."He was barking
like the dogs.I'm from Panama and he was saying,'What happened?'in Spanish."
1.What does the underlined word "it"in Paragraph 1 re