6.【2011·北京市朝陽(yáng)區(qū)第二次綜合練習(xí)】?完型填空

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 ? __36__ ?him for hours．He would ?__37__ effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the ?__38__ ?and float there beautifully．Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move ?__39__ ?into the grasses．We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language __40__ ?“pink-colored feet”; meksikatsi and I became very good friends．

The bird had a very particular significance to me ?__41__ ?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 ?__42__ was impossible．And most of the things that I ?__43__ ?about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other people．

When I was ten years old, something unexpected ?__44__ ?my life suddenly. I found myself become an ?__45__ ?child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a ?__46__ ?position that many native Americans find themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but ?__47__ two cultures．

A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what ?__48__ people have called that bird for thousands of years．Meksikatsi, he said, was really “duck”．I was very ?__49__ with English．I could not understand it．First of all, the bird did not look like “duck”, and when it made a __50__ , it did not sound like “duck”, I was even more ?__51__ when I found out that the meaning of the verb “to duck” came from the bird．

As I __52__ to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of ?__53__ , but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning．I ?__54__ ?that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different ?__55__, totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world．

36．A．keep B．watch C．follow D．search

37．A．jump B．dive C．circle D．wander

38．A．nest B．hill C．water D．road

39．A．quickly B．naturally C．freely D．quietly

40．A．means B．reads C．shows D．states

41．A．though B．because C．while D．until

42．A．communication B．imagination C．belief D．flight

43．A．dreamed B．worried C．knew D．a(chǎn)rgued

44．A．improved B．enriched C．changed D．ruined

45．A．educated B．a(chǎn)dopted C．outgoing D．independent

46．A．weak B．comfortable C．terrible D．central

47．A．between B．a(chǎn)gainst C．without D．beyond

48．A．most B．few C．their D．my

49．A．desperate B．bored C．uncomfortable D．disappointed

50．A．noise B．call C．decision D．choice

51．A．a(chǎn)shamed B．confused C．embarrassed D．frightened

52．A．tried B．came C．determined D．expected

53．A．evidence B．distinction C．profit D．sense

54．A．identified B．confirmed C．realized D．predicted

55．A．concepts B．regulations C．messages D．evaluations

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