Sarah came running in. She shouted happily, "Look what I ____36_____." She put a snake skin on the newspaper I was reading and it came so suddenly that it caused me to ____37_____. "Mom, look! Isn't it ____38_____?" said my seven-year-old daughter. I ____39_____ the snake skin and thought that it really wasn't pretty. Everything children see ____40_____is full of beauty in their eyes; they see only ____41_____ and excellence in the world until educated.
"____42_____ did the snake do this?" Sarah asked. I tried to seize the ____43_____ to teach my children that there was almost always something beyond the obvious. I wanted to tell them that there was something else going on ____44_____ what they saw in front of them. "Snakes shed (蜕) their skin because they need to renew themselves," I ____45_____.
"Why do they have to renew themselves?" Sarah asked.
My son Robert laughed and said, "Because they don't ____46_____ what they are and they want to be someone else." I politely ignored him and said that by shedding skins, we could ____47_____ the hidden reality.
"We often need to shed our skin, those coatings that we ____48_____ ourselves with," I said to my children, who listened very ____49_____, with their eyes wide open. "This snake ____50_____ needs this skin. It is probably too hard for him, or he probably doesn't think he looks as ____51_____in it as he once did. It's like buying a new ____52_____."
I'm sure this explanation will not ____53_____ the naturalists. But Sarah was getting to understand that renewal is part of ____54_____. She should learn from it what we need to keep and what we need to ____55_____.
小题1: | A.made | B.seized | C.caught | D.found |
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小题2: | A.think | B.jump | C.run | D.struggle |
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小题3: | A.interesting | B.smooth | C.beautiful | D.colorful |
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小题4: | A.stared at | B.took off | C.referred to | D.brought back |
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小题5: | A.by accident | B.over and over again | C.in the future | D.for the first time |
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小题6: | A.honesty | B.difference | C.value | D.fear |
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小题8: | A.information | B.possibility | C.opportunity | D.question |
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小题9: | A.besides | B.for | C.without | D.around |
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小题10: | A.talked | B.explained | C.whispered | D.shouted |
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小题12: | A.see | B.guess | C.ignore | D.remember |
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小题13: | A.keep | B.store | C.cover | D.improve |
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小题14: | A.properly | B.attentively | C.sadly | D.angrily |
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小题15: | A.once more | B.at times | C.right now | D.no longer |
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小题16: | A.nice | B.healthy | C.strong | D.big |
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小题18: | A.move | B.satisfy | C.correct | D.defeat |
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小题19: | A.experience | B.achievement | C.progress | D.competition |
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小题20: | A.throw out | B.hope for | C.find out | D.throw away |
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