In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue
1 . One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet （小鹦鹉）on my finger, I wanted to show Perky what the sky looked like. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my horror , Perky flew off. The enormous, blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue
2 and suddenly he had gone, clipped wings and all.
I told Kathy about Perky's disappearance and I was anxious that she would blame me. But , unexpectedly, Kathy managed to
3 me. With fake optimism, she even tried to convince me that Perky would find a new
4 . But I was far too clever to
5 that such a thing was possible.
Decades later, I watched my own
6 growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the
7 of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the best of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed（宣称） to
8 the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog. Then Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and ___9___that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.
"The best thing about Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the
10 we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just
11 down and landed on my finger."
When I was finally able to
12 , we examined the amazing evidence. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all
13 . It seems our two families had been
14 long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were
15 ! Perky lived!"
| 小题1: | | A．lake | B．sky | C．parakeet | D．backyard |
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| 小题2: | | A．pleasure | B．sadness | C．treasure | D．sense |
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| 小题3: | | A．forgive | B．comfort | C．help | D．delight |
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| 小题4: | | A．parent | B．home | C．nest | D．fellow |
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| 小题5: | | A．imagine | B．suppose | C．doubt | D．believe |
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| 小题6: | | A．birds | B．happiness | C．worries | D．children |
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| 小题7: | | A．parents | B．birds | C．interests | D．games |
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| 小题9: | | A．announced | B．said | C．retold | D．hoped |
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| 小题10: | | A．day |
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人生感悟类阅读的概念：
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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