Question

While Tom and Mary were on holidays at the seaside, they enjoyed ___1___ the seagulls. They ___2__ a lot about these lovely birds.

They will often come close to you on the beach when they are eating something. If you ____3___ a piece of bread to them, they will soon catch it.

Seagulls swim well, but they don’t often dive ___4___ fish. They are also good at flying ___5___ their large wings. When a seagull is flying, he puts his legs in his body.

Tom often watched them ____6___ close to the ground because he liked the way they ___7__ the air with their wings and brought down their feet before they ___8__ the ground.

Mary liked to see them sliding(滑行) over the ___9__ as they often did, without their ___10___ moving. But she said she didn’t like the noise they made.

1  A. watch          B. to watch        C. watching      D. watched

2  A. Understood      B. learned          C. found         D. thought

3  A. throw        B. take             C. send          D. pull

4  A. of           B. above            C. for           D. into

5  A. with         B. to               C. for           D. of

6  A. to come      B. came            C. come         D.to coming

7  A. help        B. beat               C. put          D. kept

8  A. hit           B. arrived             C. got        D. touched

9  A. Water        B. land               C. sky         D. ground

10 A. eyes         B. feet                C. legs          D. wings

Answer 1

1C    2 B   3 A    4 C    5A   6 C    7 B     8 D     9 A       10 D