5. 完形填空 (本题有15小题,每小题1分,共15分)
阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
I will never forget an accident that happened in my own childhood. When I was a boy of twelve, something happened to me that made me never 26 any birds in a cage.
We lived on the edge of a 27 in South Carolina, and every evening many mockingbirds
would come and rest in the trees and sing. There isn’t any sound that can be 28 than the song of the mockingbird.
I decided to catch a young bird and keep it in a cage, 29 in that way, I could have my
own musician*.
I finally caught one and put it in a cage. The bird was 30 and fluttered* about the cage,
but finally it became quiet in its new home. I felt pleased with 31 and looked after my little
musician carefully.
On the second day, the bird’s mother flew to the cage 32 food in her mouth. The baby bird ate up 33 she brought. I was pleased to see this. Certainly his mother knew better than I how to feed her baby.
The following morning when I went to see 34 my little bird was, I found it on the floor of the cage, dead. I was very surprised! What had happened! I had taken great 35 of the little bird, or so I thought.
Arthur Wayne, a famous scientist, happened to be in the forest where we lived at the time. Hearing me crying over the 36 of my bird, he told me what 37 . “A mother mockingbird, finding her young in a cage, will sometimes bring it poison* food. She thinks 38 better for her young to die than to live in a cage.”