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One summer evening I was sitting by the open window, reading a good but rather frightening mystery story. After a time it was too dark for me to read easily, so I put my book down and turned on the light.

I was just about to draw the   as well when I heard a loud cry “Help! Help! ” It     to come from the trees at the end of the garden. I looked out but it was too     to see anything clearly. So I decided to go out and have a look in the garden, just     someone was in    . I took the torch and picked up a strong walking stick,     that this might come to be useful, too.   with these, I went out into the garden.     I heard the cry. There was no      that it came from the trees at the end of the garden.

“Who’s there?” I     as I walked, rather    , down the path that      to the trees. But there was no     . With the help of my torch， I      the whole of that part of the garden and the lower    of the trees. There was no sign of anybody or anything. I came to the __ ___ that someone was playing a rather silly joke on me.

_  feeling rather puzzled, I went back to the house and      away the torch and the stick. I had just sat down when I was startled by the cry of “ Help! Help! ”, this time from    my shoulder. I dropped my book and climbed up. There, sitting   of the mantelpiece ( 壁炉 ), was a parrot!

1.A. gun      B. picture     C. curtains      D. car

2.A. proved    B. looked     C. sounded     D. seemed

3. A .far       B. distant      C. dark       D . black

4.A. as if       B. in case      C. on time      D. even though

5.A. trouble      B. power      C. difficulty     D. ease

6. A. requesting      B. wishing     C. demanding    D. thinking

7.A. Supplied    B. Loaded     C. Armed      D. Decorated

8.A. Once again     B. Now and then    C. From time to time   D. Again and again

9. A. wonder        B. problem    C. doubt     D. question

10.A. spoke out    B. called out      C. said out      D. got out

11.A. seriously     B. curiously     C. nervously     D. hurriedly

12.A. went      B. led      C. passed      D. joined

13.A. person     B. body      C. voice      D. answer

14.A. examined    B. searched     C. tested      D. studied

15. A. roots      B. branches     C. leaves      D. bushes

16.A. beginning       B. conclusion   C. end        D. introduction

17.A. Still          B. Yet       C. Already     D. But

18.A. threw      B. took       C. put       D. cleared

19.A. far off      B. right behind   C. left to       D. down below

20. A. Outside     B. at the foot     C. inside       D. on top