A group of swans（天鵝）flew down to a beach where a crow(烏鴉) was jumping around. The crow watched them with disdain(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(評價) 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(假裝) 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 because of my pride! If you don’t help me, I’ll lose my life…”
The swan took pity on him, and took him on his shoulders and flew back to the beach.
小題1:What’s the correct order of the following events?
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．e, c, d, a, b B．a(chǎn), e, c, d, b C．c, e, a, d, b D．e, a, d, c, b
小題2:What does the underlined word “exhausted” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A．Tired. B．Angry. C．Frightened.D．Regretful.
小題3: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 the water.
C．It was thirsty and wanted to drink some water.
D．It was enjoying itself by doing so.
小題4:What can we infer(推斷) 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.
小題5:What does the story tell us?
A．No pains, no gains.B．The early bird catches the worm.
C．Pride goes before a fall.D．Practice makes perfect.

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:B
小題4:D
小題5:C

試題解析：本文大意：烏鴉嘲笑天鵝的飛行技巧，要和天鵝比賽。一只天鵝應戰(zhàn)了。先是烏鴉在空中炫耀各種技巧，然后輪到天鵝飛的時候，烏鴉跟在后面不停地評論。后來飛到水面上時，烏鴉累了，他才發(fā)現(xiàn)是自己的驕傲害了自己，如果天鵝不幫他，他就要沒命了。
小題1:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)嘲笑、競賽、炫耀技巧、跟著天鵝飛評論出了麻煩、天鵝可憐烏鴉，可知答案選C
小題2:推理判斷題。根據(jù) he found it hard to stay in the air, 他發(fā)現(xiàn)停留在空中很困難，可知是累了，可知答案選A
小題3:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)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.
，可知答案選B
小題4:推理判斷題。根據(jù)You have no flying skills at all!你完全沒有飛行技巧，I’m in trouble because of my pride! If you don’t help me, I’ll lose my life我因為驕傲惹上麻煩了，如果你不幫我，我就沒命了，可知答案選D
小題5:主旨大意題。根據(jù)I’m in trouble because of my pride!我因為驕傲惹上麻煩了，可知驕者必敗，故答案選C
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