完型填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）
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 36 him for hours．He would 37 effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would e 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 bee 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．
【小题1】A．keepB．watchC．followD．search【小题2】A．jumpB．diveC．circleD．wander【小题3】A．nestB．hillC．waterD．road【小题4】A．quicklyB．naturallyC．freelyD．quietly【小题5】A．meansB．readsC．showsD．states【小题6】A．thoughB．becauseC．whileD．until【小题7】A．municationB．imaginationC．beliefD．flight【小题8】A．dreamedB．worriedC．knewD．argued【小题9】A．improvedB．enrichedC．changedD．ruined【小题10】A．educatedB．adoptedC．outgoingD．independent【小题11】A．weakB．fortableC．terribleD．central【小题12】A．betweenB．againstC．withoutD．beyond【小题13】A．mostB．fewC．theirD．my【小题14】A．desperateB．boredC．unfortableD．disappointed【小题15】A．noiseB．callC．decisionD．choice【小题16】A．ashamedB．confusedC．embarrassedD．frightened【小题17】A．triedB．cameC．determinedD．expected【小题18】A．evidenceB．distinctionC．profitD．sense【小题19】A．identifiedB．confirmedC．realizedD．predicted【小题20】A．conceptsB．regulationsC．messagesD．evaluationsB
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(答案→)B
解析：
【小题1】B。watch观看。我喜欢这只鸟，我几个小时观看他。
【小题1】C。circle环绕。他在那广阔的天空毫不费力的环绕飞行。
【小题1】C。water水。他会下来，轻落到水面上，优美的游动。
【小题1】D。quietly安静地。他将一声不发，喜欢安静地钻到草地里。
【小题1】A。means意味着。我们叫他“meksikatsi”，在黑脚族语意思为“粉红色的脚”。
【小题1】B。because因为。这只鸟对我来说有特别的意义，因为我也拼命地想要飞。
【小题1】D。flight飞行。我总感觉到我是出生在不能飞行的世界的那种人。
【小题1】A。dream梦想。大多数我梦想的事情对我来说是不可能的。
【小题1】C。change改变。当我10岁的时候，意想不到的事情突然改变了我的生活。
【小题1】B。adopted收养的。我发现自己成为一个家庭的养子。
【小题1】C。terrible糟糕的。我发现我自己处于糟糕的处境。
【小题1】A。between在……之间。不是在另外一种文化，而是在两种文化之间。
【小题1】D。my我的。虽然那是我的人们几千年前所称的那种鸟。
【小题1】D。be disappointed with对……感到失望。我对英语非常失望。
【小题1】A。make a noise发出吵闹声。当他发出吵闹声的时候。
【小题1】B。confused困惑。我甚至更困惑。
【小题1】B。当我开始（e to）更好的理解英语的时候。
【小题1】D。我明白了,它使大量的意义(sense)。
【小题1】C。realize意识到。我意识到语言不仅仅是对同样的事物不同的单词,
【小题1】A。concept概念。但完全不同的概念,完全不同的方式来经历的和看世界。