Every night for a year, Neil Simons quietly went out of his house. He wanted to “talk” to an owl settling for the night at the end of his garden. He made owl cries like a real wild owl and was happy to hear the bird “hooting (大聲叫囂)” back to him.

Last year Fred Cornes moved in next door. He heard an owl hooting and answered back. For 12 months the neighbors got into the back gardens of their homes, thinking they were talking with nature. Mr. Simmons kept a diary of all his talks with his bird friend. They would both be out again tonight if it wasn’t for a chance talk between their wives.

Mr. Simmons said. “My wife Kim was telling Fred’s wife Wendy about my owl watching and described how I got the birds to boot back. She said, ‘That’s funny — that’s just what Fred has been doing.’ Then the penny dropped, I felt such a fool when I found out. The trouble is that owl calls aren’t exactly the same and it’s easy to make a mistake.”

Mr. Cornes said, “I’m really flattered (過獎). I didn’t know I sounded so real. I love nature and I couldn’t resist hooting at the owls. I was very excited when they hooted back. I’m sorry that I was fooling my neighbor who was fooling me.”

After the talk between the wives, the two men would probably _________ .

A. stop observing owls                      B. not stay up hooting again

C. not enter the back garden again          D. make no mistakes about wild owl cries

“Then the penny dropped.” most probably means “Then __________.”

A. I understood                        B. everybody knew about it

     C. I heard the noise                      D. no money was paid

Mr. Simmons felt upset about the whole thing because __________.

A. all his efforts seemed to be meaningless  

B. his wife let out his secret by chance

C. garden owls hooted so differently

D. Fred had been doing the same

The text suggests that __________.

A. Nail seldom heard natural owl calls

B. the owl never hooted back to Neil

C. Fred was always good at pleasing owls

D. owl watching is no longer interesting to Fred

【小題1】B

【小題2】A

【小題3】A

【小題4】B


解析:

【小題1】文章講的是兩位同為鄰居的男士晚上模仿貓頭鷹的叫聲，他們都以為得到了貓頭鷹的回應(yīng)，但是他們的妻子在交談的時(shí)候把秘密揭開，他們把對方的叫聲錯誤理解為貓頭鷹的叫聲，于是他們從此后不再模仿貓頭鷹的叫聲。

【小題2】Then the penny dropped這句話是Mr. Simmons在知道事實(shí)真相后說的。意思是“我明白了”。

【小題3】Mr. Simmons在最初的時(shí)候驚喜地發(fā)現(xiàn)貓頭鷹的存在，所以他才每晚到花園學(xué)貓頭鷹，到后來發(fā)現(xiàn)是他的鄰居模仿貓頭鷹的叫聲。根據(jù)常識推理，令他感到不安是因?yàn)樗郧白龅氖虑槭峭絼诘摹２皇荁項(xiàng)“因?yàn)樗拮优既徽f出了秘密”，C項(xiàng)“花園的貓頭鷹叫聲不同”，D項(xiàng)“Fred也像他那樣做”。

【小題4】Neil Simmons原來以為他得到貓頭鷹的回應(yīng)，事實(shí)上回應(yīng)的是他鄰居模仿的聲音，言下之意他根本沒有收到貓頭鷹的回應(yīng)。Neil既然可以模仿貓頭鷹的聲音，說明他常常聽到貓頭鷹的聲音，所以A項(xiàng)不對。C項(xiàng)和D項(xiàng)答案從文章中推斷不出來。

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