完形填空
It was on a winter morning, near Oxford, Maryland, that I set the breakfast table beside the huge
window, which
__ 1__the Tred Avon River. The snow decorated the shore in white. For a moment I
stood quietly against the bookcase, appreciating what the night's snow had
__ 2__.
3 I leaned forward and
peered(盯着看) close to the frosted window. "It really is!" I cried
out loud. "There is a goose out there!" I
__ 4__to the bookcase and pulled out a pair of
binoculars(望远镜). Into their sights came the
__ 5__of a large Canada goose, very still, its wings folded tight to
its sides, its
__ 6__frozen to the ice.
Then from the dark sides, I saw a line of swans. They crossed
__7__the west of the broad river,
moving
__ 8__to the east.
As I
__ 9__, the leader swung to the right, and then the white
__10__of birds become a white circle.
It floated from the top of the sky downward. At last, as easy as feathers coming to earth, the circle
__11__the ice. The swans
__12__the frozen goose! Amazingly, those
bills(啄) began to work on
__13_. The long necks were lifted and curved down,
__14__. It went on for a long time. At last, the
goose was free and
__15__its big
webbed(有蹼的) feet slowly. The goose
__16__its wings as far
as they would go. The swans took off and
__17__on their eastward journey, in perfect formation, to
their secret destination.
__18__them, rising with incredible speed and joy, the goose moved into the sky.
I watched them
__19__they disappeared over the tips of the farthest trees. Only then did I realize that
tears were running down my cheeks.
This is a true story. I do not try to interpret it here. I just often _
_20__it in the bad moments, and tell
myself, "If so for birds, why not for man?"
( )1. A. undertook ( )2. A. destroyed ( )3. A. Finally ( )4. A. rushed ( )5. A. figure ( )6. A. head ( )7. A. along ( )8. A. steadily ( )9. A. watched ( )10. A. block ( )11. A. skated on ( )12. A. threatened ( )13. A. the ice ( )14. A. one after another ( )15. A. washing ( )16. A. enlarged ( )17. A. started ( )18. A. Behind ( )19. A. after ( )20. A. write about |
B. overlooked B. covered B. Unwillingly B. returned B. shadow B. body B. from B. wildly B. expected B. mass B. landed on B. attacked B. their feather B. side by side B. protecting B. spread B. carried B. In front of B. although B. keep up |
C. witnessed C. painted C. Disappointedly C. advanced C. cry C. feet C. around C. highly C. predicted C. dot C. fell down to C. surrounded C. the river C. now and then C. moving C. lifted C. repeated C. Along with C. unless C. think of |
D. passed D. hidden D. Suddenly D. reached D. baby D. beak D. in D. closely D. feared D. line D. broke into D. killed D. the shore D. again and again D. warming D. threw D. stopped D. Including D. until D. tell from |