One day a few years ago we had a guest of the uninvited variety. In fact, this uninvited guest was a
bird- a(n) 1 , to be more precise(精确地).
"What"s that?" I asked when I first heard the thump(重击声). "It sounds like Joe is outside playing
basketball," my wife, Anita, said. She paused and 2 more devotedly. "It"s coming from the 3 ." she
said. "Maybe it"s one of the little 4 ".
We rushed out the door. Jonathan, our youngest, was easy to make 5 . "If he"s making holes in the
wall again…" I said as I searched there. No children at all. But there was that 6 again, coming from
right up there.
And that"s when I 7 the sparrow. It was flying 8 just inches below the ceiling. It was clearly
trying to 9 , but couldn"t see that the way out wasn"t up, but down and out through the open 10 .
So the bird continued beating its wings and hitting its head against the 11 .
"Poor thing," Anita said. "It must be 12 ."
"Well, maybe it"s because of me," I said as I moved toward it. I tried to show the bird how to glide
(滑翔) down a few feet so it could get outside, 13 that only seemed to frighten it more.
"Why don"t we just 14 ?" Anita suggested. "I"m sure he"ll 15 eventually."
So we went back into the house, where we continued to hear the ongoing struggle. Then suddenly, it
was 16 . We looked into the garage, and our uninvited guest was 17 .
"See?" Anita said. "I told you he would make it."
"Yeah," I said. "But how many knocks on the head did it 18 him?"
I"ve thought about that little sparrow through the years. Just like that sparrow, we often meet
situations we don"t know how to 19 . Born to go upward, we don"t 20 consider the possibility that
something good might happen if we stop flapping(拍打) around and just glide down a little bit.
( ) 1. A. swallow ( ) 2. A. searched ( ) 3. A. basement ( ) 4. A. kids ( ) 5. A. trouble ( ) 6. A. cry ( ) 7. A. recalled ( ) 8. A. bravely ( ) 9. A. come up ( )10. A. car ( )11. A. wall ( )12. A. terrified ( )13. A. since ( )14. A. leave ( )15. A. attempt ( )16. A. strange ( )17. A. injured ( )18. A. cost ( )19. A. stand ( )20. A. still | B. eagle B. listened B. kitchen B. cats B. fun B. attack B. realized B. anxiously B. come down B. hole B. floor B. tired B. if B. wait B. recognize B. silent B. awesome B. offer B. deal with B. ever | C. sparrow C. studied C. garage C. birds C. sense C. knock C. spotted C. patiently C. get in C. door C. window C. stupid C. but C. flee C. understand C. busy C. gone C. earn C. comfort C. also | D. pigeon D. thought D. yard D. dogs D. effort D. sound D. caught D. happily D. get out D. roof D. ceiling D. mad D. so D. escape D. succeed D. noisy D. dead D. owe D. face D. even | |||||||||||||
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Do you know insurance(保险)? Buying insurance is a 1 by which people can protect themselves 2 large losses. Protection against fire is one kind of insurance. Large number of people pay 3 sums of money to an insurance company. Although thousands of people have paid for fire insurance, only 4 will lose their homes by fire. The insurance company will pay for these homes out or the sums of money it has 5 . The first modern fire insurance company was 6 in London, England, in 1666. A great fire had just 7 most of the city, and people wanted protection against 8 losses. The first company 9 rapidly. Soon other companies were founded in other areas. Benjamin Franklin helped form the first fire insurance company in America in 1752. he also 10 a new kind of insurance for 11 . the new insurance would off protection against the loss of crops 12 storms. In 1795, Benjamin Franklin helped start 13 new insurance company in America. This company, 14 offered life insurance, collected some money15 from many different men.16 a man died, his family was given a large sum of money. Today, this company is 17 in business. Over the years, people have 18 from many new kinds of insurance when they have suffered from 19 accidents as car and plane crashes.20 , almost everyone has some kind of insurance. | ||||||||||||||||
1. A. way 2. A. from 3. A. small 4. A. many 5. A. stole 6. A. built 7. A. destroyed 8. A. farther 9. A. risen 10. A. suggested 11. A. farmers 12. A. with 13. A. other 14. A. where 15. A. commonly 16. A. If 17. A. always 18. A. paid 19. A. many 20. A. Today | B. firm B. against B. huge B. quite a few B. collected B. found B. hurt B. further B. rised B. determined B. workers B. by B. certain B. which B. usually B. Although B. still B. offered B. so B. Generally | C. consideration C. with C. much C. few C. lent C. formed C. harmed C. wider C. grew C. asked C. waiters C. from C. another C. whom C. regularly C. Unless C. hardly C. bought C. su ch C. Lately | D. means D. beyond D. little D. a few D. brought D. organized D. wounded D. longer D. turned D. demanded D. doctors D. for D. some D. that D. ordinarily D. Because D. seldom D. benefited D. that D. Tomorrow | |||||||||||||
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Michel is a young girl who works for the police as a handwriting expert. She has helped 1 many criminals 2 using her special talents. When she was fourteen, Michel was already so interested in the 3 in her friends" handwriting 4 she would spend hours 5 them.. after 6 college she went to France for a special two-year class in 7 at the School of Police Science. Michel says that it is 8 for people to hide their handwriting. She can discover 9 of what she needs to know simply by looking at the writing with her own 10 , but she also has machines 11 help her 12 different kinds of paper and ink. This knowledge is often 13 great help to the 14 . Michel believes that handwriting is a good sign of 15 kind of person the writer 16 ."I wouldn"t go out with a fellow 17 I didn"t like his handwriting," she says. But she adds she 18 in love with her future husband, a young policeman 19 she studied his handwriting. It is later proved to be all right, 20 . | ||||||||||||||||
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