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     Ever since I was little, my favorite season was winter. I loved to play in the snow and enjoy the hot
chocolate.  
     1 , winter never gave me the special gift of snow on my birthday. I would ask my grandmother  2  it
didn't snow on my birthday. She would laugh and tell me I asked too many questions.  3  one day, she
promised (许诺) that she would make it snow on my next birthday.     
     That year,  4  my birthday, my grandmother died. I was sad but angry because she had promised to
make it snow. The day of my sixth birthday, I woke up and ran to the window,  5  to see just one snowflake.
But there was no snow. I felt mad at my grandmother. She had broken a promise.
     By my sixteenth birthday, I  6  all hope of getting my snow, even though I still wished for  7 . During
my party, I stayed with my friends and family and was truly happy. I  8  the best time ever! Then I saw the
white snow  9  down all around. I was so excited that I ran around screaming (尖叫) and laughing. My
friends all laughed  10  me, but I didn't care.
     When I  11  home, my grandpa said he had a gift for me. I was  12  because he had given me a gift. It
was a small white box, which looked old. I opened it. There was a crystal snowflake (水晶雪花) with a card
that  13 , "Happy Birthday." 
     How could this be? My grandpa said it was my grandmother's final  14  on my "sweet sixteenth". I cried. 
     I was  15  that my smiling grandmother angel was and had been watching over me.
( )1. A. Certainly   
( )2. A. when        
( )3. A. But         
( )4. A. on          
( )5. A. hoped       
( )6. A. was losing  
( )7. A. it          
( )8. A. had         
( )9. A. fell        
( )10. A. with       
( )11. A. arrived at 
( )12. A. excited    
( )13. A. wrote      
( )14. A. order      
( )15. A. certain    
B. Unfortunately
B. how         
B. Or          
B. after       
B. hoping      
B. lost        
B. her         
B. was         
B. to fall     
B. at          
B. remained    
B. confused    
B. said        
B. mistake     
B. angry       
C. Importantly
C. whether   
C. Then      
C. before    
C. to hope   
C. would lose
C. him       
C. played    
C. fallen    
C. from      
C. got       
C. pleased   
C. explained 
C. wish      
C. sad       
D. Luckily  
D. why      
D. So       
D. in       
D. hope     
D. had lost 
D. me       
D. feared   
D. falling  
D. off      
D. entered  
D. frustrated
D. appeared                          
D. decision 
D. anxious  
答案

1-5     BDACB      6-10   DAADB      11-15    CBBCA

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Thousands of dead red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in an Arkansas town on New Year’s Eve after massive injuries, tests by Arkansas officials concluded on Monday. Some 5,000 birds mysteriously fell from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas after dark on New Year’s Eve. “The birds suffered from acute physical injuries leading to internal hemorrhage(大量出血) and death. There was no sign of infectious disease,” the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said in a statement. The birds were otherwise healthy, it said.

One theory is that birds were frightened by New Year's fireworks and flew into buildings or other objects. “Loud noises were reported shortly before the birds began to fall from the sky,” the statement said, adding that blackbirds have poor night vision and seldom fly at night.

  Another theory was that severe weather such as lightning accounted for the loud noises but this was discounted because the violent weather had already left the area. “We’re leaning more toward a stress event," said Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesman Keith Stephens.

The commission also is trying to determine what caused the deaths of up to 100,000 fish over a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River near a dam in Ozark, 125 miles west of Beebe. The fish were discovered on December 30. Stephens said the commission expected results on the fish tests in probably a month. Since almost all the fish were one species -- bottom-feeding drum, Stephens said, the test was very important. Stephens also said: “The events do not appear related.” Both that section of the river and the air at the site of the bird deaths were tested for toxins(毒素). Beebe is a town of about 4,500 people located 30 miles northeast of the state capital.

小题1:What is NOT the probable reason why the dead red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky?

A.Internal hemorrhage

B.Fireworks

C.Lightning weather

D.Murder小题2:In the third paragraph, the underlined word discounted probably mean________.

A.not to reduce cost

B.not to believe

C.to make up a part

D.to explain mystery小题3:According to Stephens, we can infer the probable cause of the dead fish is _________.

A.cold weather

B.poor management

C.disease

D.lack of food小题4:The passage is mainly developed by __________.

A.analyzing causes

B.making comparisons

C.examining differences

D.following the time order