《限时练·吉林地区》1.2 完型填空.docx

1.2 限时练习（二）这个部分的练习，主要练习完形填空和改错。总共限时40分钟。模块一完形填空1When 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 1him for hours．He would 2 effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the 3 and float there beautifully．Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move4into the grasses．We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language5“pink-colored feet”; meksikatsi and I became very good friends．The bird had a very particular significance to me6I 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 7was impossible．And most of the things that I 8about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other people．When I was ten years old, something unexpected9my life suddenly．I found myself become an10child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a 11position that many native Americans find themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but 12two cultures．A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what13people have called that bird for thousands of years．Meksikatsi, he said, was really “duck”．I was very14with English．I could not understand it．First of all, the bird did not look like “duck”, and when it made a 15, it did not sound like “duck”, I was even more16when I found out that the meaning of the verb “to duck” came from the bird．As I 17to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of 18 , but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning．I 19that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different 20, totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world．1．A．keepB．watchC．followD．search2．A．jumpB．diveC．circleD．w