WhenIwaseight,Ihadtocrossacrime-filledneighborhoodtosch...

问题详情：

When I was eight, I had to cross a crime-filled neighborhood to school. Nobody got

involved when there was a__41    ,not even if a killing was happening directly across from

our  42  :"What's that, Mom? Someone is screaming！""Turn off the light！ Stay  43  I

Keep your voice down!" Mom would    44  .

    Usually,1 would see other girls that I knew, and I would catch up and we would  45

together.

    Along this route was an old grey house with a    46  .  It never caught my attention

  47    a kind and lovely elderly lady    48    us with a musical voice and a smile. "Look in

my apple tree!" she said. "Do you see the Cedar Waxwings?" Well, I had never known

what the    49  was called.  My friends and l would,    50  ,look for the old lady to see if

she was    51  had taken this little yard and made it a small paradise of flower beds:

s0    52    that she probably had lived there for many years. She enjoyed our frequent

visits and told us all kinds of things about birds and nature. We    53    to love her.

    But one day, we didn't   54    her. Though we looked, there was never a    55    0f

her: her garden began to look    56    and the greyness of the house seemed to take over

the colorful mood. One of us    57    to open the gate and knocked at the door, but the

dear old woman would never greet us again. It was to be my first experience with death,

though I didn’t know it then, a death to my childhood  58   ．

    Every time I    59    a bird, especially a Cedar Waxwing,I think of her.  Every time I

face a hardship, I remember her grace and dignity. Her    60    in the old house made it

beautiful.

    41.A. gathering    B. celebration    C. murder    D. crime

    42.A. school    B. house    C. neighborhood    D. town

    43.A. awake    B. low    C. asleep    D. active

    44.A. reply    B. shout    C. announce    D. whisper

    45.A. walk    B. play    C t    D. study

    46.A. view    B. pond    C     D. mystery 

    47.A. until    B. when    C. because    D. where

    48.A. begged    B.  treated    C. ordered    D.  greeted

    49.A. fruit    B. tree    C. bird    D er

    50.A. once a year    B. every school day  C. occasionally    D.  rarely

    51.A. gardening    B. smiling    C ing    D. watchlng

    52.A. old-fashioned  B blished    C     D. large

    53.A. agreed    B. expected    C. tried    D. grew

    54.A. visit    B. miss    C. see    D. love

    55. A. sign    B y    C. memory    D o

    56. A. fresh    B. wild    C. dirty    D n

    57.A. promised    B. planned    C atened    d

    58.A. pleasure    B.  innocence    C.  independence    D.  friendship

    59.A. admire    B     C. keep    D. catch

60.A. death    B.  Labor    C. presence    D. Interest

【回答】

DBBDA CADCB ABDCA  BDBAC

知识点：人物传记 故事阅读类

题型：完型填空