One summer evening I was sitting by the open window, reading a good but rather frightening mystery story. After a time it was too dark for me to read easily, so I put my book down and turned on the light.
I was just about to draw the
36 as well when I heard a loud cry “Help! Help! ” It
37 to come from the trees at the end of the garden. I looked out but it was too
38 to see anything clearly. So I decided to go out and have a look in the garden, just
39 someone was in
40 . I took the torch and picked up a strong walking stick,
41 that this might come to be useful, too.
42 with these, I went out into the garden.
43 I heard the cry. There was no
44 that it came from the trees at the end of the garden.
“Who’s there?” I
45 as I walked, rather
46 , down the path that
47 to the trees. But there was no
48 . With the help of my torch I
49 the whole of that part of the garden and the lower
50 of the trees. There was no sign of anybody or anything. I came to the ___
51___ that someone was playing a rather silly joke on me.
___
52 feeling rather puzzled, I went back to the house and
53 away the torch and the stick. I had just sat down when I was startled by the cry of “ Help! Help! ”, this time from
54 my shoulder. I dropped my book and climbed up. There, sitting
55 of the mantelpiece ( 壁炉 ), was a parrot!
| 小题1: | | A．gun | B．picture | C．curtains | D．car |
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| 小题2: | | A．seemed | B．looked | C．sounded | D．proved |
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| 小题3: | | A．far | B．distant | C．dark | D．black |
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| 小题4: | | A．as if | B．even though | C．on time | D．in case |
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| 小题5: | | A．difficult | B．power | C．trouble | D．ease |
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| 小题6: | | A．thinking | B．wishing | C．demanding | D．requesting |
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| 小题7: | | A．Supplied | B．Loaded | C．Armed | D．Decorated |
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| 小题8: | | A．Again and again | B．Now and then | | C．From time to time | D．Once again |
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| 小题9: | | A．wonder | B．doubt | C．problem | D．question |
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| 小题10: | | A．spoke out | B．called out | C．got out | D．said out |
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| 小题11: | | A．seriously | B．nervously | C．curiously | D．hurriedly |
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| 小题12: | | A．led | B．went | C．passed | D．joined |
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| 小题13: | | A．person | B．body | C．answer | D．voice |
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| 小题14: | | A．studied | B．searched | C．tested | D．examined |
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| 小题15: | | A．roots | B．branches | C．leaves | D．bushes |
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| 小题16: | | A．beginning | B．end | C．conclusion | D．introduction |
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| 小题17: | | A．But | B．Yet | C．Already | D．Still |
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| 小题18: | | A．put | B．took | C．threw | D．cleared |
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| 小题19: | | A．far off | B．down below | C．left to | D．right behind |
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| 小题20: | | A．on top | B．at the foot | C．inside | D．Outside |
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