Besides electricity, a lion fears water the most, and a rainstorm with thunder and lightning brings both. For that reason I always have a written   1   that frees me from   2   when it's raining.

For two days it was raining without stopping. By the third night, it wasn't raining at all. I   3

the sign to the announcer, and the band began   4   my music.

The animals went through their tricks, but they were far from being   5  about the wetness.

And so we came to the head-in-mouth   6  . When I pulled Leo's mouth open raising his face and nose to the   7  . I noticed that the muscles (肌肉) of his jaws (上、下颚) were tense. Then, as I put my head in, a rain began pouring down. I felt Leo become   8   all over.

My head was in now. I counted to ten and then gave him the tap-on-jaw   9   to let me go. But then nothing happened.

I   10   again on his jaw. Leo's mouth was like a steel trap. I heard gunfire men were trying to get Leo's   11  . But already, with my face   12   in the back of his mouth, I was finding it hard to breathe, I knew what had happened: with the   13   beating on his face, Leo had forgotten me. I heard the gunfire again.

I awoke with an oxygen mask   14   my face, and a doctor was working over me." You're   15  ," said the doctor, "as soon as you went faint (头晕的), the lion   16   you. For nearly three minutes you had no heartbeat!"

By then it had   17   raining. I called Leo back and opened his jaw. "Don't be a fool!" the doctor said,   18   I put my head in and counted to ten. Then I have Leo the tap on the jaw --and he obeyed immediately.

Yet, when I tried to trick again the next time, Leo   19  . I believed he was unwilling to   20   me a second time. I never did the trick again.

1. A. suggestion            B. notice                       C. agreement                D. decision

2. A. performing           B. trying                       C. acting                      D. training

3. A. set                       B. gave                         C. put                          D. made

4. A. making                 B. playing                     C. enjoying                   D. practising

5. A. happy                   B. sad                          C. sorry                       D. anxious

6. A. joke                            B. trick                         C. play                         D. attempt

7. A. sky                      B. earth                        C. cage                        D. ceiling

8. A. angry                   B. excited                     C. tense                        D. frightened

9. A. mark                    B. sign                         C. order                       D. information

10. A. hit                      B. beat                         C. pulled                       D. tapped

11. A. silence                B. control                            C. attention                   D. death

12. A. buried                 B. hidden                      C. put                          D. sunk

13. A. stick                   B. gun                          C. rain                          D. hand

14. A. in                       B. above                       C. below                      D. over

15. A. foolish                B. crazy                       C. safe                         D. lucky

16. A. kept                   B. dropped                    C. fell                           D. bit

17. A. begun                 B. stopped                    C. continued                 D. been

18. A. and                    B. so                            C. but                          D. or

19. A. obeyed               B. refused                     C. agreed                      D. regretted

20. A. hurt                    B. kill                           C. damage                    D. fool

There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage（孤儿院）turned me into an old man．

I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.

After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the bushes scattered around the orphanage.

I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after another, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings，pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet．

How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes，all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head，face and hands so I could look at them up close.

When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement（水泥）step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out．It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin．Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just trembled.

I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back．But it would not stay on him.

1.The author set the living butterfly free because_______.

A．he liked it very much

B．he had sympathy for the beautiful butterfly

C．he couldn’t bear a butterfly dying in his favorite bushes

D．its wing broke off

2.According to the passage，the author’s life in the orphanage was_____.

A．dull and full of strict rules

B．simple and easy

C．happy and full of hope

D．hard and busy

3.What is the author’s attitude towards the house parent’s pinning some butterflies on the cardboard?

A．tolerant

B．unconcerned

C．disgusted

D．discouraged

4.We know from the passage that_________.

A. the author lived alone in the dormitory

B. there were one hundred butterflies living in the bushes

C the cardboard paper was left on the step so as to be watched

D. the author failed to stick the worn wing onto the butterfly with his spit

5.Which of the following is right according to the passage?

A．I found beauty meant nothing special to me.

B．The house parent helped the children handle the quilt.

C．The house parent chased the butterfly in order to show it to the children.

D．I thought it cruel to catch the butterfly.

 

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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　Besides electricity, a lion fears water the most, and a rainstorm with thunder and lightning brings both. For that reason I always have a written 1 that frees me from 2 when it's raining.

　　For two days it was raining without stopping. By the third night, it wasn't raining at all. I 3 the sign to the announcer, and the band began 4 my music.

　　The animals went through their tricks, but they were far from being 5 about the wetness.

　　And so we came to the head-in-mouth 6 . When I pulled Leo's mouth open raising his face and nose to the 7 . I noticed that the muscles (肌肉) of his jaws (下、下颚) were tense. Then, as I put my head in, a rain began pouring down. I felt Leo become 8 all over.

　　My head was in now. I counted to ten and then gave him the tap-on-jaw 9 to let me go. But then nothing happened.

　　I 10 again on his jaw. Leo's mouth was like a steel trap. I heard gunfire men were trying to get Leo's 11 . But already, with my face 12 in the back of his mouth, I was finding it hard to breathe, I knew what had happened; with the 13 beating on his face, Leo had forgotten me. I heard the gunfire again.

　　I awoke with an oxygen mask 14 my face, and a doctor was working over me. “You're 15 ,” said the doctor, “as soon as you went faint (头晕的), the lion 16 you. For nearly three minutes you had no heartbeat!

　　By then it had 17 raining. I called Leo back and opened his jaw. “Don't be a fool!” the doctor said, 18 I put my head in and counted to ten. Then I gave Leo the tap on the jawand he obeyed immediately.

　　Yet, when I tried to trick again the next time, Leo 19 . I believed he was unwilling to 20 me a second time. I never did the trick again.

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There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage（孤儿院）turned me into an old man．
I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.
After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the bushes scattered around the orphanage.
I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after another, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings，pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet．
How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes，all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head，face and hands so I could look at them up close.
When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement（水泥）step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out．It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin．Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just trembled.
I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back．But it would not stay on him.
【小题1】The author set the living butterfly free because_______.

A．he liked it very much

B．he had sympathy for the beautiful butterfly

C．he couldn’t bear a butterfly dying in his favorite bushes

D．its wing broke off

【小题2】According to the passage，the author’s life in the orphanage was_____.

A．dull and full of strict rules

B．simple and easy

C．happy and full of hope

D．hard and busy

【小题3】What is the author’s attitude towards the house parent’s pinning some butterflies on the cardboard?

A．tolerant

B．unconcerned

C．disgusted

D．discouraged

【小题4】We know from the passage that_________.
A. the author lived alone in the dormitory
B. there were one hundred butterflies living in the bushes
C the cardboard paper was left on the step so as to be watched
D. the author failed to stick the worn wing onto the butterfly with his spit
【小题5】Which of the following is right according to the passage?

A．I found beauty meant nothing special to me.

B．The house parent helped the children handle the quilt.

C．The house parent chased the butterfly in order to show it to the children.

D．I thought it cruel to catch the butterfly.