中考新突破中考英语话题二十四故事与诗歌试题.pdfVIP

话题二十四 故事与诗歌 (Stories and poems) Ⅰ. 完形填空 A( 2016 呼和浩特改编 ) It was a great pleasure for the family to move to a house with a very big garden. Betty and Tony could climb up trees, __1__ flowers and even play badminton. They liked to watch the birds __2__ among the trees in the garden. They even started to put food out to attract more birds. __3__ was fine for a few days until one afternoon there was a strange bumping( 撞 击 ) noise on a window. Betty went outside and found a small __4__ dead on the grass. Its neck seemed to be broken. “It must have __5__ the window. ” Tony said when his sister Betty called him to have a look. “Ah, yes, look here. You can see the __6__ where it hit the window. There are a couple of tiny feathers stuck on the window. ” “Poor thing ！” Betty said. During the next month, five more birds __7 __ in the same way. “Why would they fly to the windows ？” They wondered. __8__ they knew the truth. Whenthe birds were flying, they couldnt see into the rooms. All they saw was the reflection( 倒影 ) of the garden. They thought that they were flying into trees __9__ they saw trees reflected by the window. “Something has to be done to __10__ the birds. ” the parents decided. At first, the family tried keeping curtains across the windows, but this made the room __11__. Then they bought some strong black paper and cut out the __12__ of a hawk( 老鹰 ). They __13__ six hawks — one for each window. They stuck the hawks to the windows. They looked pretty __14__ did not keep out much light. When the birds saw the hawks, they would fly away. After that,