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【題目】 A group of swans flew down to a beach where a crow was jumping around. The crow watched them with distain. (鄙視)。

“You have no flying skills at all!” he said to the swans. “All you can do is to move your wings. Can you turn over in the air? No, that’s beyond you. Let’s have a flying competition. I’ll show you what real flying is!”

One of the swans, a strong young male, took up the challenge. The crow flew up and began to show his skills. He flew in circles, performed other flying tricks, and then came down and looked proudly at the swan.

Now it was the swan’s turn. He flew up, and began flying over the sea. The crow flew after him, making all kinds of comments about his flying. They flew on and on till they couldn’t see the land and there was nothing but water on all sides. The crow was making fewer and fewer comments. He was now so exhausted that he found it hard to stay in the air, and had to struggle to keep himself from falling into the water.

The swan pretended not to notice, and said, “Why do you keep touching the water, brother? Is that another trick?”

“No,” said the crow. He knew he had lost the competition. “I’m in trouble! If you don’t help me, I’ll lose my life…”

The swan took pity on him, took him on his shoulders and flew back to the beach.

【1】Why did the crow keep touching the water?

A. It was showing another flying skill.

B. It was struggling to keep itself from falling into water.

C. It was thirsty and wanted to drink some water.

D. It was enjoying itself by doing so.

【2】What does the underlined word ‘exhausted” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. tired B. angry

C. frightened D. unhappy

【3】 What can we infer from the passage?

A. The crow didn’t know flying.

B. Flying skills were useless.

C. The swan saved the crow because they were good friends.

D. The swan was better at long-distance flying than the crow.

【4】What’s the correct order of the following event?

a. The crow showed off its flying skills.

b. The swan felt pity for the crow and saved it.

c. The crow laughed at the swan’s flying.

d. The crow followed the swan and got into trouble.

e. The crow challenged the swans and a strong young swan accepted it.

A. c, e, d, a, b B. a, e, c, d, b

C. c, e, a, d, b D. e, a, d, c, b

【5】What does the story tell us?

A. Pride goes before a fall.

B. The early bird catches the worm.

C. No pains, no gains.

D. Practice makes perfect.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】D

【4】C

【5】A

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文中驕傲的烏鴉瞧不起天鵝，向天鵝發(fā)起挑戰(zhàn)，結(jié)果在挑戰(zhàn)中失敗，不得不向天鵝求救，最后被天鵝救了命， 從而告訴我們驕傲使人落后的道理。

【1】B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中and had to struggle to keep himself from falling into the water.The swan pretended not to notice, and said, “Why do you keep touching the water, brother? Is that another trick?”可知故選B.

【2】A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中它現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)筋疲力盡，它發(fā)現(xiàn)很難在空中停留，可知?jiǎng)澗�部分單詞的意思是累人的。故選A。

【3】D推理判斷題題。通讀整篇文章我們可以知道天鵝比烏鴉飛的高度要高得多。故選D

49.【4】C根據(jù)短文描述，可知首先是天鵝接受了挑戰(zhàn)，然后烏鴉跟隨者天鵝遇到麻煩，再就是烏鴉向天鵝求救，最后天鵝很鄙視烏鴉并救了它的命。故選C。

【5】A主旨大意題。這篇短文中驕傲的烏鴉最后被它瞧不起的天鵝救了命，從而告訴我們驕傲使人落后的道理，故選D.