One day a few years ago we had a guest of the uninvited variety. In fact, this uninvited guest was a bird--- a(n) __1__, to be more precise(精确地). “What’s that?” I asked when I first heard the thump(重击声). “It sounds like Joe is outside playing basketball,” my wife, Anita, said. She paused and __2__ more devotedly. “It’s coming from the __3__.” she said. “Maybe it’s one of the little __4__”. We rushed out the door. Jonathan, our youngest, was easy to make __5__. “If he’s making holes in the wall again…” I said as I searched there. No children at all. But there was that __6_ again, coming from right up there. And that’s when I __7__ the sparrow. It was flying __8__ just inches below the ceiling. It was clearly trying to __9__, but couldn’t see that the way out wasn’t up, but down and out through the open _10__. So the bird continued beating its wings and hitting its head against the __11__. “Poor thing,” Anita said. “It must be __12__.” “Well, maybe it’s because of me,” I said as I moved toward it. I tried to show the bird how to glide (滑翔) down a few feet so it could get outside, __13__ that only seemed to frighten it more. “Why don’t we just __14__?” Anita suggested. “I’m sure he’ll __15__ eventually.” So we went back into the house, where we continued to hear the ongoing struggle. Then suddenly, it was __16__. We looked into the garage, and our uninvited guest was __17__. “See?” Anita said. “I told you he would make it.” “Yeah,” I said. “But how many knocks on the head did it __18__ him?” I’ve thought about that little sparrow through the years. Just like that sparrow, we often meet situations we don’t know how to __19__. Born to go upward, we don’t __20__ consider the possibility that something good might happen if we stop flapping(拍打) around and just glide down a little bit.
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小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:A
小题6:D
小题7:C
小题8:B
小题9:D
小题10:C
小题11:D
小题12:A
小题13:C
小题14:A
小题15:D
小题16:B
小题17:C
小题18:A
小题19:B
小题20:D
文章讲述的是一只被困在车库里的麻雀，刚开始由于习惯思维的关系找不到出口，最终飞出了车库，让作者联想到了人的相同情况，有时候改变一下思路，改变一下思维方式，很多问题可能就会马上解决。
小题1:上下文。根据42空可知，是一只麻雀
小题2:上下文。根据上一句，it sounds like Joe is ...是作者的妻子听到了响声，所以此处是更专心地听。
小题3:上下文。根据51空后面，we looked into the garage可知，声音是发自车库的。
小题4:上下文。根据下一段40空，可知他们原以为使他们的孩子发出的声音
小题5:上下文。根据 “If he's making holes in the wall again"可知，他们的孩子会制造麻烦。
小题6:上下文，根据第二段和此处的again可知，指的是上文提到的响声
小题7:动词辨析。意为我发现了那个麻雀。根据后文可知，作者让麻雀自己飞走，所以不能选D， A回忆，B意识到，不符合句意
小题8:上下文。麻雀飞不出去，所以是很焦急的。
小题9:同上
小题10:文章理解。麻雀要想飞出车库只能从门那出去，别的讲不通
小题11:上下文。 根据43空后面的below the ceiling可知
小题12:文章理解。因为麻雀飞不出去，所以麻雀会感到害怕，恐惧。
小题13:意为我试图告诉它如何低飞一点，这样就可以出去了，但是它看起来更害怕了。
小题14:上下文。很据下一段so we went back into the house,可知，他们回到了屋子里，离开了车库
小题15:上下文，根据52空后面，I told you he would make it 可知，make it 成功。
小题16:句意理解。根据后文可知麻雀飞出去了，所以没有了原来的响声，变得安静了
小题17:同51，麻雀飞走了
小题18:cost 以……为代价。 意为它飞出去是以多少次的（头部）撞击为代价？
小题19:词组 deal with 处理
小题20:意为，天生就知道向上，我们甚至都不考虑向下的可能性。