6.【2011·北京市朝阳区第二次综合练习】 完型填空

When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies of southern Alberta from the Blackfoot Blood Reserve in northern Montana where I was born．I loved this bird; I would   __36__  him for hours．He would  __37__ effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the  __38__  and float there beautifully．Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move  __39__  into the grasses．We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language __40__  “pink-colored feet”; meksikatsi and I became very good friends．

The bird had a very particular significance to me  __41__  I desperately wanted to be able to fly too．I felt very much as if I was the kind of person who had been born into a world where  __42__ was impossible．And most of the things that I  __43__  about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other people．

When I was ten years old, something unexpected  __44__  my life suddenly. I found myself become an  __45__  child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a  __46__  position that many native Americans find themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but  __47__ two cultures．

A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what  __48__ people have called that bird for thousands of years．Meksikatsi, he said, was really “duck”．I was very  __49__ with English．I could not understand it．First of all, the bird did not look like “duck”, and when it made a __50__ , it did not sound like “duck”, I was even more  __51__ when I found out that the meaning of the verb “to duck” came from the bird．

As I __52__ to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of  __53__ , but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning．I  __54__  that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different  __55__, totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world．

36．A．keep B．watch C．follow D．search

37．A．jump B．dive C．circle D．wander

38．A．nest B．hill C．water D．road

39．A．quickly B．naturally C．freely D．quietly

40．A．means B．reads C．shows D．states

41．A．though B．because C．while D．until

42．A．communication B．imagination C．belief D．flight

43．A．dreamed B．worried C．knew D．argued

44．A．improved B．enriched C．changed D．ruined

45．A．educated B．adopted C．outgoing D．independent

46．A．weak B．comfortable C．terrible D．central

47．A．between B．against C．without D．beyond

48．A．most B．few C．their D．my

49．A．desperate B．bored C．uncomfortable D．disappointed

50．A．noise B．call C．decision D．choice

51．A．ashamed B．confused C．embarrassed D．frightened

52．A．tried B．came C．determined D．expected

53．A．evidence B．distinction C．profit D．sense

54．A．identified B．confirmed C．realized D．predicted

55．A．concepts B．regulations C．messages D．evaluations

答案：BCCDA BDACB CADDA BBDCA