小升初英语考试完形填空练习题

 完型填空

I will never forget an accident that happened in my own childhood. When I was a boy of twelve, something

happened to me that made me never put any ______ in a cage.

We lived on the edge of a______ in South Carolina, and every evening many mockingbirds would come and rest

in the trees and sing. There isn't any sound that can be ______than the song of the mockingbird. I liked

listening to the singing of the mockingbird very much.

I decided to catch a young bird and keep it in a cage, and in that way, I could have my own ________.

I finally caught one and put it in a cage. The bird was_______ and fluttered (拍翅) about the cage, but

finally it became quiet in its new home. I felt pleased with _______and looked after my little musician  carefully.

On the second day, the bird's mother flew to the cage　with ______ in her mouth. The baby bird ate up she

brought. I was _______ to see this. Certainly his mother knew better than I how to feed her baby.

The following morning when I went to see how my little bird was, I found it on the floor of the cage, dead.

I was very surprised! What had happened! I had taken great ______ of the little bird, or so I thought.

Arthur Wayne, a famous scientist, happened to be in the forest where we lived at the time. Hearing me

crying over the______ of my bird, he told me what had happened. "A mother mockingbird, finding her young in a

_______, will sometimes bring it poison food. She thinks it better for her young to _______ than to live in a  cage."

_____ I never catch any birds or put them in a cage. All the birds have the right to _______ in the sky .

参考下面的选项，选择最佳答案：

1. A. birds B. mice C. cats D. rabbits

2. A. river B. forest C. city D. sea

3 . A. more beautiful B. less terrible C. worse D. noisier

4. A. bird B. pet C. musician D. pleasure

5. A. lucky B. silent C. kind D. frightened

6. A. yourself B. myself C. herself D. himself

7. A. her tongue B. poison C. a branch D. food

8 . A. the branch B. her tongue C. everything D. her mother

9. A. pleased B. angry C. frightened D. sorry

10. A. place B. rest C. picture D. care

11. A. death B. cage C. food D. health

12. A. house B. bag C. cage D. box

13. A. flee B. die C. sing D. fly

14. A. Soon after B. Since then C. Just then D. Long ago

15. A. jump B. run C. fly D. walk

答案：1-5、ABACD 6-10、BDCAD 11-15、ACBBC