2 . 完型填空（共20小题；
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。
When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies of southern Alberta from the Blackfoot Blood Reserve in northern Montana where I was born．I loved this bird; I would
_______him for hours．He would
_______effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the
_______and float there beautifully．Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move
_______into the grasses．We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language
_______“pink-colored feet”; meksikatsi and I became very good friends．
The bird had a very particular significance to me
_______I desperately wanted to be able to fly too．I felt very much as if I was the kind of person who had been born into a world where
_______was impossible．And most of the things that I
_______about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other people．
When I was ten years old, something unexpected
_______my life suddenly．I found myself become an
________child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a
________position that many native Americans find themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but
________two cultures．
A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what
________people have called that bird for thousands of years．Meksikatsi, he said, was really “duck”．I was very
________with English．I could not understand it．First of all, the bird did not look like “duck”, and when it made a
________, it did not sound like “duck”, I was even more
________when I found out that the meaning of the verb “to duck” came from the bird．
As I
________to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of
________but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning．I
________that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different
________, totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world．
1. | A．keep | B．watch | C．follow | D．search |
2. | A．jump | B．dive | C．circle | D．wander |
3. | A．nest | B．hill | C．water | D．road |
4. | A．quickly | B．naturally | C．freely | D．quietly |
5. | A．means | B．reads | C．shows | D．states |
6. | A．though | B．because | C．while | D．until |
7. | A．communication | B．imagination | C．belief | D．flight |
8. | A．dreamed | B．worried | C．knew | D．argued |
9. | A．improved | B．enriched | C．changed | D．ruined |
10. | A．educated | B．adopted | C．outgoing | D．independent |
11. | A．weak | B．comfortable | C．terrible | D．central |
12. | A．between | B．against | C．without | D．beyond |
13. 14. | A．desperate | B．bored | C．uncomfortable | D．disappointed |
15. | A．noise | B．call | C．decision | D．choice |
16. | A．ashamed | B．confused | C．embarrassed | D．frightened |
17. | A．tried | B．came | C．determined | D．expected |
18. | A．evidence | B．distinction | C．profit | D．sense |
19. | A．identified | B．confirmed | C．realized | D．predicted |
20. | A．concepts | B．regulations | C．messages | D．evaluations |
