阅读理解。
Mr. Ellis is very old. He has seen many changes in his home town.
He knows that things are different now. But he never forgets the old days. He likes to talk about them. He
often talks about his favourite (最喜欢的) birds, the robins (一种小小鸟--鸫). "When I was a boy, these houses were not here. There were wide fields and tall trees. Every spring robins would come. Thousands of them
would fly up to the north from the south. They spent the winter in the south. Some would build their nests (巢)
in the trees near our houses. Then people started to cut down trees, and they built more houses. The robins
stopped coming. They couldn't build their nests near our houses because there were no trees."
"Now there are too many houses and too many roads. There are no places for the robins. They do come
any more (不再)."
1. Mr. Ellis often talks about _______.
A. his old house
B. the old days
C. his life now
D. his family
2. The birds, the robins, spent the winter in ________.
A. the south
B. the west
C. the north
D. the east
3. _______ built the nests in the trees.
A. Mr. Ellis
B. Some people
C. The robins
D. Some dogs
4. Then people ________ trees because they wanted to build more houses.
A. cut down
B. planted
C. bought
D. watered
5. From the passage (短文) we can know that ________.
A. Mr. Ellis likes his new life now
B. there were many houses there in the old days
C. the robins can make their nests without trees
D. Mr. Ellis is not happy with the changes there
