速测(十二) 完形填空+阅读理解D+词语运用
Ⅰ.完形填空
One day a wounded eagle dropped in the field. A farmer found it. He was so 1 that he took it home and cleaned its wounds(伤口).After that he placed it outside in the yard, and he hoped that it 2 get well soon.
Strangely enough, the eagle soon got used to the 3 of all the chickens in the yard. It learned to 4 from side to side like chickens, and eat happily from a trough(食槽). For several years, the eagle 5 his new life on the farm.
Then one day, one of the farmer's friends pointed to the playing eagle and asked, “ 6 is that eagle acting like a chicken?” The farmer told him what had 7 ,and the friend felt quite 8 .
“What a pity!” said the friend. “It should fly in the sky instead of living here!” He picked up the eagle, and 9 it into the air. The eagle was 10 , and cried loudly. Then it just fell down on the ground.
That night, the friend could hardly sleep as he remembered the chicken-like eagle. The next morning, he went back to the farm for another 11 . This time he carried the eagle to the 12 of a nearby mountain.
When he stood at the highest place of the mountain, he looked into its eyes and shouted, “Don't you understand? You weren't made to live like a chicken!”
As he 13 the eagle up, he made sure it was facing into the bright 14 of the rising sun.
Then he 15 tossed(扔) the bird into the sky. This time the eagle opened its wings, and disappeared into the clouds.
( )1.A. brave B.kind C.polite D.proud
( )2.A. would B.should C.must D.need
( )3.A. food B.sounds C.water D.habits
( )4.A. walk B.sleep C.talk D.drink
( )5.A. disliked B.enjoyed C.forgot D.lost
( )6.A. When B.Why C.How D.What
( )7.A. made B.appeared C.happened D.found
( )8.A. funny B.surprised C.worried D.pleased
( )9.A. pulled B.moved C.took D.threw
( )10.A. satisfied B.frightened C.excited D.angry
( )11.A. drink B.meeting C.rest D.try
( )12.A. top B.foot C.center D.side
( )13.A. tied B.put C.filled D.held
( )14.A. energy B.light C.space D.shape
( )15.A. powerfully B.softly C.hardly D.easily
Ⅱ.阅读理解
A few years ago, I took my first trip to Thailand to visit my boyfriend's family. As soon as we got out of the airport, I started to complain about the hot weather. Quite suddenly, my boyfriend stopped me. “It is not acceptable to show your emotion like that,” he whispered. “You should try to smile.” I thought he was joking at first, but I soon realized he wasn't. In Thailand, people go out of their way to put on a happy face for reasons I didn't yet know.
Ever since the trip, I have been trying to learn about how people express emotions in different cultures. What I have learned is that negativity(消极性) is likely to be taboo(禁忌) in Thailand. The happiness of the group is more important than one person's feelings. For that reason, my public complaints were very impolite.
It's not just complaining which is taboo. In Thailand, people who publicly express anger are seen as impolite, too. In Europe or the USA, it is quite common for friends and partners to get angry with each other and then make up the next day. In Thailand, losing your cool is surely of no use.
This is not to say that you can't express negative emotions in Thailand. There are different ways that you can smile: there's the “I don't trust you” smile, the “that's a silly suggestion” smile, the smile of real warmth, and many other besides. I clearly remember the “please don't ever do that again” smile from my boyfriend's mother when I rested my feet on a chair. In Thailand, showing the bottom of your feet is very rude.
Emotions give further clues(线索,提示) to the differences. In the USA and Europe, people are likely to use the mouth to show an emotion, for example, [:)] means happy and [:(] means sad, while in Asia, 
and 
carry these meanings, showing that the emotion expressed by the eyes is much more important.
