Sarah came running in. She shouted happily, "Look what I ____36_____." She put a snake skin on the newspaper I was reading and it came so suddenly that it caused me to ____37_____. "Mom, look! Isn't it ____38_____?" said my seven-year-old daughter. I ____39_____ the snake skin and thought that it really wasn't pretty. Everything children see ____40_____is full of beauty in their eyes; they see only ____41_____ and excellence in the world until educated.
"____42_____ did the snake do this?" Sarah asked. I tried to seize the ____43_____ to teach my children that there was almost always something beyond the obvious. I wanted to tell them that there was something else going on ____44_____ what they saw in front of them. "Snakes shed (蜕) their skin because they need to renew themselves," I ____45_____.
"Why do they have to renew themselves?" Sarah asked.
My son Robert laughed and said, "Because they don't ____46_____ what they are and they want to be someone else." I politely ignored him and said that by shedding skins, we could ____47_____ the hidden reality.
"We often need to shed our skin, those coatings that we ____48_____ ourselves with," I said to my children, who listened very ____49_____, with their eyes wide open. "This snake ____50_____ needs this skin. It is probably too hard for him, or he probably doesn't think he looks as ____51_____in it as he once did. It's like buying a new ____52_____."
I'm sure this explanation will not ____53_____ the naturalists. But Sarah was getting to understand that renewal is part of ____54_____. She should learn from it what we need to keep and what we need to ____55_____.
| 小题1: | | A．made | B．seized | C．caught | D．found |
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| 小题2: | | A．think | B．jump | C．run | D．struggle |
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| 小题3: | | A．interesting | B．smooth | C．beautiful | D．colorful |
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| 小题4: | | A．stared at | B．took off | C．referred to | D．brought back |
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| 小题5: | | A．by accident | B．over and over again | | C．in the future | D．for the first time |
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| 小题6: | | A．honesty | B．difference | C．value | D．fear |
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| 小题8: | | A．information | B．possibility | C．opportunity | D．question |
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| 小题9: | | A．besides | B．for | C．without | D．around |
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| 小题10: | | A．talked | B．explained | C．whispered | D．shouted |
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| 小题12: | | A．see | B．guess | C．ignore | D．remember |
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| 小题13: | | A．keep | B．store | C．cover | D．improve |
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| 小题14: | | A．properly | B．attentively | C．sadly | D．angrily |
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| 小题15: | | A．once more | B．at times | C．right now | D．no longer |
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| 小题16: | | A．nice | B．healthy | C．strong | D．big |
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| 小题18: | | A．move | B．satisfy | C．correct | D．defeat |
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| 小题19: | | A．experience | B．achievement | C．progress | D．competition |
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| 小题20: | | A．throw out | B．hope for | C．find out | D．throw away |
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