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The bird could talk in twelve languages and sing twenty famous songs.
A．True
B．False
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There are two boys in the family.
A．True
B．False
第二节 短文理解1
阅读下面短文，从[A](Right)、[B](Wrong)、[C](Doesn't Say)三个判断中选择一个正确选项。
A rich man decided to give his mother a birthday present that would be better than any of his brothers were giving her. He beard about a wonderful bird. The bird could talk in twelve languages and sing ten famous songs. He bought the bird at once and sent it to his mother. It cost him 50,000. The day after her birthday, he phoned his mother. "What do you think of the bird, Mother？" he asked eagerly. His mother replied, "Delicious!"
The man had a lot of money.
A．Right.
B．Wrong.
C．Doesn't say.
听力原文：W: Bird watching! Now what is it people love about this so much？
M: I think it's the challenge, it keeps your brain going, you feel like a little kid on a treasure hunt. You're poking around the trees, and looking for little hidden birds.
W: The three central characters in your book, the top finishers in the 1998 Big Year competition, were clearly looking for a challenge. Tell us how the Big Year works.
M: Well, the Big Year is a contest with no referees and few rules. The idea is, who can see the most species of birds in North America in one year. So you can see them however you want. You can fly to see them, ride a bike to see them. In one case, they even took a helicopter to see them in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada.
W: And they chase the birds through the canyon, as I recall.
M: They did, up and over peaks, and one guy had a horrible seasickness problem.
W: It is said he just hoped he could hold his breakfast together.
M: And he did, and he got the bird. What a great bonus.
What do the man and the woman talk about？
A．A book on birds.
B．Species of birds.
C．A man chasing birds.
D．Activities of watching birds.
听力原文：M: Susan! Could I have a word with you while you are having your coffee？
W: Of course, David! Let's find a quiet comer over there.
M: The manager asked me to tell you that he appreciated your efforts last year very much.
W: Thanks, David. That makes me feel a lot better. I try my best, you know. You can tell him that I am grateful for his confidence in me.
M: Yes, I'll certainly pass that on to him. Your sales figures for the last two years have been remarkably good.
W: Manchester is a good area to work in. There are a lot of businesses opening all the time. I try to make contact with the managers as soon as I know a new company is starting up. "The early bird catches the worm!" as they say.
M: I'm sure that's true, but there is more to it than that, isn't there. Susan？ You seem to be very confident and this helps your sales.
W: Yes, I've been working on that for some time. I think that if I appear confident and successful, people are more likely to buy our goods.
M: Well, you certainly seem successful at that. Your sales figures prove that. I was wondering if you could give a short talk tomorrow afternoon on the idea of being confident as a sales representative. Do you think you could put together something on that topic？
W: I think I could manage. I'll work on it this evening.
M: I would be grateful if you could do that for me. I'm sure the others would benefit from that kind of talk.
W: About how long do you want me to speak for？
M: Something like 20 minutes, if that's all right？
W: And what sort of thing do you want me to talk about？
M: Oh. How to build up your confidence, present yourself to customers, that sort of thing.
W: I'll work on it later then, David.
M: Thanks, Susan...let me take your coffee cup back for you. I think it is about time we got back to the conference.
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A．In Manchester.
B．In London.
C．In Birmingham.
D．In Belfast.
A、you cannot catch old birds with chaff
B、birds of a feather flock together
C、it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest
D、a bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk
"The Grail Bird" is the story of this remarkable rediscovery, told by one of the chief rediscoverers. The editor of Living Bird magazine, Gallagher began the book several years ago with milder ambitions. The plan was to interview anyone who had seen the bird -- or thought he or she had. Soon, though, he was swept into a web of tantalizing rumors and half-clues, propelled by the possibility that a living ivory-bill might yet be found. "If someone……could prove that this remarkable species still exists, it would be the most hopeful event imaginable: we would have one final chance to get it right, to save this bird and the bottomland swamp forests it needs to urvive." Hope was a thing with a three-foot wingspan.
"The Grail Bird" is less an ecological study than a portrait of human obsession; if not for the outcome, it could as easily be a book about the hunt for Bigfoot. Gallagher stakes out swamps teeming with alligators and cottonmouths. He sifts through shady evidence, from fuzzy Instamatic photographs to bags of bark shavings -- peeled, possibly, by the ivory-billed woodpecker in its search for beetle grubs. He suffers bloodied feet and an infected knee. His closest companion, Bobby Ray Harrison, a wildlife photographer and an arts professor at Oakwood College, dresses in full camouflage gear and canoes with a camcorder attached to his helmet. Sasquatch chasers," Gallagher' s wife calls them. Yet for all the shenanigans, his book is an insightful look at what most biological fieldwork involves: a lot of sweating, sitting and waiting for ghosts to -- maybe -- make themselves real.
As tales go, "The Grail Bird" isn't the most stylishly told. Gallagher lets his characters talk at too-great length, and the incidental details are sometimes overly incidental. ("After pigging out on bad burgers, we got a room at a cheap motel and quickly fell into a deep, exhausted sleep with lots of snoring.") But most readers probably won' t mind. As some rivers are to be enjoyed not for the quality of the water but for the quality of the stones to be found therein, so it is with some books. Gallagher presents a series of lively characters: Fielding Lewis, a former Louisiana state boxing commissioner who in 1971 took two fuzzy photographs of the wood pecker that were subsequently -- and perhaps mistakenly -- discredited; an anonymous "woodpecker whisperer" who claims to have a telepathic connection to the birds, even a thousand miles away. (One group of searchers failed, they were told, because they were noisily scaring off the bird.)
Oddly missing from this recounting is any extended focus on the ivory-billed woodpecker itself. Granted, the bird has been invisible for decades, a presence notable largely for its absence. Still, the book might have given us the animal' s history in more detail -- something to convey the visceral appeal of this "grail." Without that, the quest -- though triumphant -- at times feels hollow, and the fulfillment of the author' s obsession veers perilously close to sounding like an end in itself.
According to the text, the ivory-billed woodpecker ______.
A．is extinct since the year of 1994
B．was found by a group of 17 researchers through the internet
C．is called "Grail Bird" because it is hallowed to the degree of holiness
D．is so famous that it has become a symbol of the spoiled relationship between human beings and nature
They climbed to the top of the hill ______ they could get a bird's-eye view of the city.
A．for fear that
B．in order that
C．in case
D．as a result
The bird could speak Chinese.
A．Right.
B．Wrong.
C．Doesn't say.
The bird actually could say "Ketunnel".
A．Right.
B．Wrong.
C．Doesn't say.
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