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   36   as well when I heard a loud cry “Help! Help! ” It 37   to come from the trees at the end of the garden. I looked out but it was too 38   to see anything clearly. So I decided to go out and have a look in the garden, just 39   someone was in   40   . I took the torch and picked up a strong walking stick,   41   that this might come to be useful, too.   42    with these, I went out into the garden.   43    I heard the cry. There was no    44   that it came from the trees at the end of the garden.
“Who’s there?” I   45   as I walked, rather 46   , down the path that   47    to the trees. But there was no  48   . With the help of my torch I   49   the whole of that part of the garden and the lower  50    of the trees. There was no sign of anybody or anything. I came to the ___51___ that someone was playing a rather silly joke on me.
___52    feeling rather puzzled, I went back to the house and   53    away the torch and the stick. I had just sat down when I was startled by the cry of “ Help! Help! ”, this time from  54   my shoulder. I dropped my book and climbed up. There, sitting    55   of the mantelpiece ( 壁炉 ), was a parrot!

A．gun B．picture C．curtains D．car

A．seemed B．looked C．sounded D．proved

A．far B．distant C．dark D．black

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

A．difficult B．power C．trouble D．ease

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

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

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

A．wonder B．doubt C．problem D．question

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

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

A．led B．went C．passed D．joined

A．person B．body C．answer D．voice

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

A．roots B．branches C．leaves D．bushes

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

A．But B．Yet C．Already D．Still

A．put B．took C．threw D．cleared

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

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