完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
One day a few years ago we had a guest of the uninvited variety. In fact, it was a bird,
1 a sparrow.
“What’s that?” I asked when I first heard the gentle thumping(重击声). “It sounds like Joe is outside playing basketball,” my wife, Anita, said. She
2 and listened more devotedly. “It’s coming from the
3 .” she said. “Maybe it’s one of the little kids.”
We rushed out the door. Jonathan, our youngest, was
4 to make trouble. “If he’s making holes in the wall again…” I said as I searched there. No children
5 . But there was that
6 again, coming from right up there.
And that’s when I
7 the sparrow. It was flying
8 just inches below the ceiling. It was
9 trying to get out, but couldn’t see that the way out wasn’t up, but down
10 the open door. So the bird continued
11 its wings and hitting its head against the
12 .
“Poor thing,” Anita said. “It must be
13 .”
“Well, maybe it’s because of us,” I said as I moved toward it. I tried to show the bird how to glide（滑翔） down to get outside, but that only seemed to
14 it more. “Why don’t we just
15 for a few minutes?” Anita suggested. “I’m sure he’ll
16 eventually.” So we went back into the house, where we continued to hear the ongoing
17 .Then suddenly, it was silent. We looked into the garage, and our uninvited guest was gone.
“See?” Anita said. “I told you he’d succeed.”
“Yeah,” I said. “But how many knocks on the head did it
18 him?”
I’ve thought about that little sparrow through the years. Just like that sparrow, we often meet situations we don’t know how to
19 . Born to go upward, we don’t even consider the possibility that something good might happen if we stop flapping（拍打）around and just glide
20 a little bit.
| 小题1: | | A．for example | B．rather than | C．or rather | D．as well |
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| 小题2: | | A．hurried | B．paused | C．ignored | D．confirmed |
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| 小题3: | | A．basement | B．kitchen | C．garage | D．hall |
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| 小题4: | | A．easy | B．happy | C．sorry | D．angry |
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| 小题5: | | A．in all | B．at all | C．above all | D．after all |
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| 小题6: | | A．guest | B．voice | C．noise | D．sound |
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| 小题7: | | A．watched | B．found | C．realized | D．caught |
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| 小题8: | | A．carefully | B．gently | C．patiently | D．anxiously |
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| 小题9: | | A．eventually | B．unwillingly | C．obviously | D．thoroughly |
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本题信息：英语完形填空难度一般 来源:未知
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生活感悟类的文章就是指能给人心灵以启迪，使人从中受到教育的文章。这类文章的体裁可以是记叙文，如生活中一些感人故事或情感故事，有点类似心灵鸡汤一样的短文。
生活感悟类阅读解题指导：
一、文章特点：
生活感悟类的文章就是指能给人心灵以启迪，使人从中受到教育的文章。这类文章的体裁可以是记叙文，如生活中一些感人故事或情感故事，有点类似心灵鸡汤一样的短文。有时故事的结尾会有一句“点睛之笔”，点出全文的中心思想，就像《伊索寓言》里的寓言一样。还可能是夹叙夹议的哲理散文或生活随笔。散文随笔通常会阐述一种朴素易懂，耳熟能详的人生道理或宝贵品质。文章的结构和议论文类似，一般是总分总或总分结构。每段首句或尾句为主题句（论点），其它句子围绕主题展开论述（论据），论证方法多种多样，或举例，或引用名言，或正反对照等。
二、解题技巧：
针对生活感悟类文章的特点，做这类文章的完形填空时，要特别注意以下几点：
1、重点理解全文的首句。如果是记叙文，找出when，where，who，what等基本要素。如果是散文随笔，充分理解文章的中心句—全文的主题。
2、阅读全文的结尾段或结尾句，有助于理解文章所阐述或蕴含的哲理、感悟或忠告等。
3、调动自己的背景知识和情感。这类文章不会讲大道理也不会涉及到一些很专业的知识技术领域，而是谈一些小事和简单的道理，所以如果读者能和作者产生感情上的共鸣，读者会更好地把握作者的意图态度，从而提高做题的准确度。因此，考生在平时要做一个有心人，即用心去感悟生活中发生的小事，思考人生的一些基本道理，多阅读一些短小精悍的美文，多写写自己的心情故事和对生活学习的感悟。只有平时多用心，做题时才能调动自己的背景知识和情感。
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