WhenIwasaboutfiveyearsold,Iusedtowatchabirdintheskies...

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   When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies of southern Alberta from the Blackfoot Blood Reserve in northern Montana where I was born．I loved this bird; I would  26  him for hours．He would    27  effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the 28 and float there beautifully．Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move  29  into the grasses．We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language  30  “pink-colored feet”; meksikatsi and I became very good friends．

    The bird had a very particular significance to me  31  I desperately wanted to be able to fly too．I felt very much as if I was the kind of person who had been born into a world where  32  was impossible．And most of the things that I  33  about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other people．

    When I was ten years old, something unexpected  34  my life suddenly. I found myself become an  35  child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a  36  position that many native Americans find themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but   37  two cultures．

    A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what   38  people have called that bird for thousands of years．Meksikatsi, he said, was really “duck”．I was very  39  with English．I could not understand it．First of all, the bird did not look like “duck”, and when it made a  40  , it did not sound like “duck”, I was even more   41   when I found out that the meaning of the verb “to duck” came from the bird．

    As I   42  to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of   43  , but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning．I  44  that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different   45  , totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world．

26．A．keep                B．watch              C．follow             D．search

27．A．jump               B．dive                 C．circle               D．wander

28．A．nest                 B．hill                   C．water                     D．road

29．A．quickly            B．naturally           C．freely                     D．quietly

30．A．means             B．reads               C．shows             D．states

31．A．though             B．because           C．while               D．until

32．A．communication B．imagination       C．belief               D．flight

33．A．dreamed          B．worried            C．knew               D．argued

34．A．improved         B．enriched           C．changed           D．ruined

35．A．educated          B．adopted            C．outgoing          D．independent

36．A．weak               B．comfortable      C．terrible             D．central

37．A．between           B．against             C．without            D．beyond

38．A．most               B．few                 C．their                D．my

39．A．desperate         B．bored               C．uncomfortable  D．disappointed

40．A．noise               B．call                  C．decision           D．choice

41．A．ashamed          B．confused          C．embarrassed     D．frightened

42．A．tried                B．came               C．determined       D．expected

43．A．evidence          B．distinction        C．profit               D．sense

44．A．identified          B．confirmed        C．realized            D．predicted

45．A．concepts          B．regulations       C．messages         D．evaluations

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26-30 BCCDA   31-35 BDACB   36-40 CADDB   41-45 BBDCA

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