阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、 B 、C 、D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One day in September we were doing repair work on my parents’ old house to get it ready for my youngest daughter’s wedding. We had to a great climbing plant that had grown a roof beam(房梁),so that we could repair the roof and the walls.
When my husband was taking the plant away, he found a of a blackbird that had made its home in the leaves. He then something among that mass of earth and straw of the nest. He broke the earth around it into pieces with his finger tips and, to his ,saw glittering gold. It was a child’s bracelet(手镯). He ran into the house to me.
“You won’t believe that the blackbirds not only steal the best fruit we to feed on,” he said,“but they also want their children to in a cradle(摇摆)of gold!”
When my daughter came over on the eve of the ,we told her about this occurrence.
“Don’t you remember, Mother?” she said with a loud .“When I was eight, you gave me a bracelet that I a few days later while out playing in the yard? It was this one!”
As the bracelet no longer its owner and was dirty, I decided to take it into my safekeeping.
In December of the following year, the young couple’s baby son was baptized(受洗礼).Among the the newborn baby received, I placed his mother’s bracelet, now shining like . I hope that if my grandson loses it, one of the that live in my backyard is somewhere nearby.
A.remove B.cover C.grow D.water
A.beyond B.over C.across D.through
A.build B.paint C.rescue D.print
A.nest B.baby C.body D.egg
A.moved B.got C.picked D.noticed
A.nice B.colorful C.shiny D.special
A.horror B.surprise C.delight D.disappointment
A.ask B.tell C.show D.give
A.working B.cheating C.dreaming D.thieving
A.buy B.plant C.store D.collect
A.lie B.sing C.listen D.wait
A.party B.Christmas C.birthday D.wedding
A.important B.strange C.terrible D.funny
A.cry B.sigh C.laugh D.sound
A.hid B.threw C.lost D.broke
A.fitted B.satisfied C.matched D.interested
A.jewels B.toys C.clothes D.presents
A.attractive B.new C.modern D.golden
A.almost B.just C.even D.ever
A.blackbirds B.grandchildren C.neighbors D.mice