In the United States there was an unusual tale telling of the daughter of a mechanic （技工）. One day while walking along the bank of a lake, the girl
1 to see 20 eggs laid by a wild goose. After some time the girl
2 __ the mother would not return to her eggs and she
3 to take them home. There she carefully
4 the eggs in the heat of a lamp. Several days
5 the eggs broke and the baby geese came into the
6 ___.
Geese are known to take the first living thing they see as their mother.
7 , to these young geese, the girl was their mother.
As they
8 , the girl was able to
9 her birds to run across the grass, but she could not teach them to
10. The girl became increasingly worried about this, both when
11 and in her dreams. Later, she had an
12 : She would pilot a plane to guide them in
13 . She asked her father for a plane and he assembled（组装）a small aircraft for her.
Caring about
14 safety, the father decided to pilot the plane himself. However, the birds did not
15 or follow him, and
16 slept in the grass.
One day, the girl
17 into the plane, started it and soon left the
18 . Seeing their mother take to the air, the birds
19 flapped（拍打）their wings and
20 . She flew the plane freely in the sky, her young birds following.
| 小题1: | | A．managed | B．attempted | C．happened | D．supposed |
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| 小题2: | | A．realized | B．expected | C．imagined | D．admitted |
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| 小题3: | | A．helped | B．decided | C．afforded | D．meant |
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| 小题4: | | A．placed | B．protected | C．treated | D．examined |
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| 小题6: | | A．family | B．lake | C．home | D．world |
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| 小题8: | | A．increased | B．improved | C．rose | D．grew |
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| 小题11: | | A．asleep | B．away | C．around | D．awake |
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| 小题12: | | A．idea | B．opinion | C．explanation | D．excuse |
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| 小题13: | | A．sky | B．heaven | C．flight | D．plane |
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| 小题15: | | A．respect | B．remember | C．recognize | D．receive |
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| 小题16: | | A．so | B．instead | C．hardly | D．too |
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| 小题17: | | A．climbed | B．looked | C．reached | D．fell |
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| 小题18: | | A．house | B．floor | C．water | D．ground |
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| 小题19: | | A．secretly | B．disappointedly | C．patiently | D．eagerly |
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| 小题20: | | A．looked away | B．set out | C．went by | D．turned back |
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