請回答第 47 題至第 50 題
Something happened to me when I was 12 and cured me forever of wanting to put any wild creature in a cage.
I was then living with my family on the edge of the woods. Every evening at dusk the mockingbirds would come and
perch in the trees and sing. So beautiful was the sound they produced that I decided to catch one and keep it in a cage. In
that way I could have my own private musician.
I did succeed in catching one and put it in a cage. I had left the cage out on our back porch, and on the second day of
the bird’s captivity, its mother flew to the cage and brought some food to it.
The following morning I discovered it on the floor of the cage, dead. I was baffled! What had happened?
Arthur Wayne, the renowned ornithologist, happened to be visiting my father at the time, and hearing me bemoan
my bird’s fate, explained what had occurred. “A mother mockingbird, finding her young in a cage, will sometimes bring
it poison berries. She deems it better for her young to die than to live in captivity.”
Never since then have I caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living creatures have a right to live freely.
【題組】47 Why did the author want to catch a mockingbird at first?
(A) He wanted to know if he was able to catch a bird.
(B) His father’s friend wanted to do an experiment on this kind of bird.
(C) He wanted to find out if the mother of the caged bird would come to feed it.
(D) He wanted to have his own mockingbird.
635. _____ is behavior which is intended to trouble or annoy someone, such as repeated attacks on them verbally or physically. (A) Hospitality (B)Hindrance (C)Harassment (D)Homosexuality
34 Large cities are usually overcrowded and dirty; _____, they tend to have high crime rates.
(A) instead (B) nevertheless (C) in addition (D) for example
33 The high-speed train could have a tremendous _____ on our lives in shortening the travelling time among cities.
(A) concern (B) impact (C) impression (D) correspondence
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