In 1956 Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue
1 . One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet （小鹦鹉）on my finger, I wanted to show Perky what the sky looked like. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my horror , Perky flew off. The enormous, blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue
2 and suddenly he had gone, clipped wings and all.
I told Kathy about Perky's disappearance and I was anxious that she would blame me. But , unexpectedly, Kathy managed to
3 me. With fake optimism, she even tried to convince me that Perky would find a new
4 . But I was far too clever to
5 that such a thing was possible.
Decades later, I watched my own
6 growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the
7 of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the best of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed（宣称） to
8 the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog. Then Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and ___9___that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie.
"The best thing about Sweetie Pie," he said, "was the
10 we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just
11 down and landed on my finger."
When I was finally able to
12 , we examined the amazing evidence. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all
13 . It seems our two families had been
14 long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, "You were
15 ! Perky lived!"
| 小题1: | | A．lake | B．sky | C．parakeet | D．backyard |
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| 小题2: | | A．pleasure | B．sadness | C．treasure | D．sense |
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| 小题3: | | A．forgive | B．comfort | C．help | D．delight |
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| 小题4: | | A．parent | B．home | C．nest | D．fellow |
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| 小题5: | | A．imagine | B．suppose | C．doubt | D．believe |
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| 小题6: | | A．birds | B．happiness | C．worries | D．children |
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| 小题7: | | A．parents | B．birds | C．interests | D．games |
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| 小题9: | | A．announced | B．said | C．retold | D．hoped |
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| 小题11: | | A．floated | B．dived | C．settled | D．went |
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| 小题12: | | A．think | B．speak | C．interrupt | D．explain |
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| 小题13: | | A．came up | B．turned up | C．turned out | D．matched up |
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| 小题14: | | A．known | B．fastened | C．connected | D．introduced |
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| 小题15: | | A．right | B．wrong | C．silly | D．mad |
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