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．lakeB．skyC．parakeetD．backyard【小题2】A．pleasureB．sadnessC．treasure D．sense【小题3】A．forgive B．fortC．help D．delight【小题4】A．parentB．homeC．nest D．fellow【小题5】A．imagine B．supposeC．doubtD．believe【小题6】A．birdsB．happinessC．worriesD．children【小题7】A．parentsB．birdsC．interestsD．games【小题8】A．catchB．findC．buyD．have【小题9】A．announcedB．saidC．retoldD．hoped【小题10】A．dayB．placeC．wayD．story【小题11】A．floatedB．divedC．settledD．went【小题12】A．thinkB．speakC．interruptD．explain【小题13】A．came upB．turned upC．turned outD．matched up【小题14】A．knownB．fastenedC．connectedD．introduced【小题15】A．rightB．wrongC．sillyD．madB
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(答案→)B
解析：本文是记叙文。作者叙述了一只蓝鹦鹉连接两家人友谊的传奇故事。小时候作者在和妹妹的蓝鹦鹉玩耍时，因为不小心鹦鹉从作者手中飞了，但妹妹坚信鹦鹉会找到自己的新家。很多年以后，当作者成家立业，和另外一家人在野外宿营时，无意中了解到他们小时候得到一只鹦鹉的故事，结果得知他们的那只鹦鹉正是作者当年不小心失去的那只。
【小题1】考查名词。所选之词受boundless blue的修饰，没有限定词，故应是不可数名词，所以选B.
【小题2】考查名词。treasure珍宝，说明妹妹对蓝鹦鹉非常珍爱。
【小题3】考查动词。表明妹妹原谅了作者，从后文的叙述中可得出结论
【小题4】考查名词。后文的叙述验证，蓝鹦鹉找到了自己的新家。
【小题5】考查动词。说明作者本人根本不相信妹妹的话。
【小题6】考查名词。从后文看，作者已经成家立业，有了自己的孩子。
【小题7】考查名词。由后面the Kissells可得出此答案，此处指的是作者孩子朋友的父母。
【小题8】考查动词。作为一种游戏和消遣大家各自讲述自己宠物的故事，因此这个人说自己拥有最老的金鱼。
【小题9】考查动词。宣称与前面的claim相呼应，表现出主人的自豪感。
【小题10】考查名词。从下文看， Barry在叙述自己得到蓝鹦鹉的方式，其他都太片面。
【小题11】考查动词。飘落符合鸟的动作特征。
【小题12】考查动词。此处说明作者听到对方的叙述而非常吃惊，最后才能够说话。
【小题13】考查动词短语。match up当吻合讲，符合特定的语境：对方所讲的一切与作者当年不小心让蓝鹦鹉飞走的情景完全吻合。
【小题14】考查动词。作者听了对方的叙述认为两家的缘分从那只蓝鹦鹉飞走的那一刻就开始了，也就是两家早就联系在一起了。
【小题15】考查形容词。最后作者不得不相信，妹妹当初所说的一切很对。