阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In the United States there was an unusual story telling of the daughter of an engineer．One day
36 walking along the bank of a lake, the girl happened to see 20 eggs laid by a wild goose．After some time the girl_
37_the mother would not return to the eggs and she
38 to take them home．There she carefully
39 the eggs in the heat of a lamp．Several days
40 , the eggs broke and the baby geese came into the
41 Geese are known to take the first living thing
42 they see as their mother．Thus, to these
43 geese, the girl was their mother．
As they grew, the girl was able to
44 her birds to run across the grass, but she could not teach, them to
_45_．The little girl became increasingly worried about this, both when
46 and in her dreams．Suddenly, she thought_
47_a clever idea: she would fly a plane to guide them in
48 ．She asked her father for a plane and he made a small one for her．Caring about
49 safety, the father Hew the plane himself．However, the birds didn't
50 him．They all slept in the grass
51 .
The girl was so worried about it that one day the girl
_52_into the plane and started it．Soon the plane left the
_53_．Seeing their mother in the air, the birds
54 expanded their wings and
55 She flew the plane freely in the sky, with her young birds following．
| 小题1: | | A．since | B．after | C．while | D．because |
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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．agreed |
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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．house | C．home | D．world |
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| 小题7: | | A．what | B．which | C．that | D．who |
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| 小题11: | | A．asleep | B．away | C．around | D．awake |
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| 小题12: | | A．of | B．through | C．over | D．back |
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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．follow | D．receive |
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| 小题16: | | A．sadly | B．instead | C．hardly | D．too |
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| 小题17: | | A．climbed | B．looked | C．drove | 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．immediately |
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| 小题20: | | A．looked away | B．set out | C．went by | D．turned back |
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