One day a few years ago we had an uninvited guest—a sparrow.
the little bird had flown into our open garage. Then I
the bird before I saw it.
“What’s that?”I asked when I first heard the sound.
“It’s coming from the
.”my wife, Anita, said. “Maybe it’s one of the little
.”
I looked into the garage. No children at all. But there was that sound again, coming from right up there. And that’s
I saw the sparrow. It was flying
just inches below the ceiling. It was clearly
to get out, but couldn’t see the way out was not up, but
and and out through the garage door. So the bird continued flapping its wings and bumping its little head
the ceiling.
I tried to terrify it out, but only succeeded in driving it into the
open space between the door and the ceiling. Then I tried to show the bird how to fly down a few feet
it could get outside, but that only seemed to
it more.
“Why don’t we just leave for a few minutes,” Anita
.“I’m sure he’ll figure it out eventually.”
We went back into the house, where we
to hear the ongoing struggle between the sparrow and the ceiling. Then suddenly, it was
and our uninvited guest was gone.
I’ve
that little sparrow through the years, and I’ve decided that birds are not different much from people. We think we were
to fly ever upward, and we don’t even consider the
that something good might happen if we just fly down a little bit. Once we figure out that we can make
without banging（碰）our heads against ceilings, we can usually save ourselves much
.
| 小题1: | | A．Still | B．Somehow | C．Instead | D．Perhaps |
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| 小题2: | | A．heard | B．caught | C．searched | D．observed |
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| 小题3: | | A．house | B．backyard | C．garage | D．basement |
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| 小题4: | | A．birds | B．guests | C．cats | D．kids |
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| 小题5: | | A．when | B．how | C．why | D．whether |
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| 小题6: | | A．quickly | B．anxiously | C．cautiously | D．slowly |
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| 小题7: | | A．deciding | B．hesitating | C．trying | D．choosing |
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| 小题8: | | A．up | B．backward | C．forward | D．down |
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| 小题9: | | A．against | B．off | C．along | D．into |
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| 小题10: | | A．free | B．small | C．wide | D．dark |
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| 小题11: | | A．in case | B．even if | C．as though | D．so that |
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| 小题12: | | A．puzzle | B．confuse | C．frighten | D．disturb |
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| 小题13: | | A．suggested | B．explained | C．insisted | D．demanded |
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| 小题14: | | A．attempted | B．continued | C．refused | D．failed |
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| 小题15: | | A．fierce | B．empty | C．safe | D．silent |
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| 小题16: | | A．looked after | B．worried about | C．thought about | D．brought up |
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| 小题17: | | A．forced | B．determined | C．born | D．urged |
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| 小题18: | | A．idea | B．possibility | C．challenge | D．problem |
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| 小题19: | | A．progress | B．peace | C．decisions | D．efforts |
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| 小题20: | | A．panic | B．pressure | C．loss | D．trouble |
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