1 .        In 1956, Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet on my finger. I wanted to show Perky _______ the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird _______ out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my _______, Perky flew off. The enormous blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue ________ and suddenly he had gone, clipping its wings.

Kathy managed to _______ me. With fake optimism, she even tried to reassure me that Perky would find a new _______ But I was far too clever to _______ that such a thing was possible.

Decades later, I watched my own _______ growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the ________ of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the _______of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed to _______the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog. _______ Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and _______ that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.

“The best thing ________Sweetie Pie,” he said, “was the ________ we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just _______ down and landed on my finger.”

When I was finally able to _______ , we examined the amazing evidence. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all _______. It seems our two families had been _______ long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, “You were _______! Perky lived!”

1.

A．what

B．how

C．which

D．where

2.

A．food

B．nest

C．friend

D．family

3.

A．joy

B．horror

C．disappointment

D．satisfaction

4.

A．pleasure

B．sadness

C．treasure

D．sense

5.

A．forgive

B．comfort

C．help

D．delight

6.

A．parent

B．home

C．master

D．life

7.

A．imagine

B．suppose

C．doubt

D．believe

8.

A．birds

B．happiness

C．worries

D．children

9.

A．parents

B．birds

C．interests

D．games

10.

A．first

B．best

C．last

D．happiest

11.

A．catch

B．find

C．buy

D．have

12.

A．Suddenly

B．Fortunately

C．Then

D．However

13.

A．announced

B．said

C．told

D．hoped

14.

A．in

B．about

C．of

D．on

15.

A．day

B．place

C．way

D．story

16.

A．floated

B．dived

C．settled

D．went

17.

A．think

B．speak

C．interrupt

D．explain

18.

A．came up

B．turned up

C．turned out

D．matched up

19.

A．known

B．fastened

C．connected

D．introduced

20.

A．right

B．wrong

C．silly

D．mad