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In 1956, Phoenix, Arizona, was a city with boundless blue skies. One day as I walked around the house with my sister Kathy’s new parakeet on my finger, I wanted to show Perky   36   the sky looked like. Maybe he could make a little bird   37  out there. I took him into the backyard, and then, to my   38  , Perky flew off. The enormous blue sky swallowed up my sister’s blue    39    and suddenly he had gone, clipping its wings. Kathy managed to   40    me. With fake optimism, she even tried to reassure me that Perky would find a new     41  . But I was far too clever to   42   that such a thing was possible. Decades later, I watched my own   43    growing. We shared their activities, spending soccer Saturdays in folding chairs with the   44    of the kids’ friends, the Kissells. The two families went camping around Arizona together. We became the   45    of friends. One evening, the game was to tell Great Pet stories. One person claimed to   46  the oldest living goldfish. Someone else had a psychic dog.   47   Barry, the father of the other family, took the floor and   48   that the Greatest Pet of All Time was his blue parakeet, Sweetie Pie. “The best thing   49    Sweetie Pie,” he said, “was the   50    we got him. One day, when I was about eight, out of the clear, blue sky, a little blue parakeet just  51   down and landed on my finger.” When I was finally able to   52   , we examined the amazing evidence. The dates and the locations and the pictures of the bird all  53  . It seems ourtwo families had been    54   long before we ever met. Forty years later, I ran to my sister and said, “You were   55  ! Perky lived!” 36.  A. what                B. how               C. which                D. where 37. A. food                 B. nest                 C. friend                  D. family 38. A. joy                    B. horror             C. disappointment            D. satisfaction 39. A. pleasure                 B. sadness                C. treasure                 D. sense 40. A. forgive           B. comfort               C. help                   D. delight 41. A. parent               B. home              C. master                   D. life 42. A. imagine                  B. suppose              C. doubt                 D. believe 43. A. birds                  B. happiness            C. worries                  D. children 44. A. parents                  B. birds               C. interests                 D. games 45. A. first                   B. best                C. last                    D. happiest 46. A. catch                B. find                 C. buy                    D. have 47. A. Suddenly               B. Fortunately          C. Then                  D. However 48. A. announced               B. said                 C. told                   D. hoped 49. A. in                      B. about              C. of                    D. on 50. A. day                   B. place                C. way                  D. story 51. A. floated                   B. dived              C. settled                D. went 52. A. think        B. speak               C. interrupt                 D. explain 53. A. came up                 B. turned up             C. turned out              D. matched up 54. A. known                  B. fastened              C. connected              D. introduced 55. A. right                  B. wrong            C. silly                    D. mad 答案：36-40．ACBCA   41-45．BDDAB   46-50．DCABC  51-55．ABDCA

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