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When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies of southern Alberta from the Blackfoot Blood Reserve in northern Montana where I was born．I loved this bird; I would ________ him for hours. He would ________ effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the ________ and float there beautifully．Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move ________ into the grasses．We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language ________ “pink-colored feet”; meksikatsi and I became very good friends.

The bird had a very particular significance to me ________ I desperately wanted to be able to fly too．I felt very much as if I was the kind of person who had been born into a world where ________ was impossible. And most of the things that I ________ about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other people．

When I was ten years old, something unexpected ________ my life suddenly. I found myself become an ________ child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a ________ position that many native Americans find themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not in another culture but ________ two cultures．

A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what ________ people have called that bird for thousands of years．Meksikatsi, he said, was really “duck”．I was very ________ with English．I could not understand it．First of all, the bird did not look like “duck”, and when it made a ________, it did not sound like “duck”, I was even more ________ when I found out that the meaning of the verb “to duck” came from the bird．

As I ________ to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of ________, but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning．I ________ that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different ________, totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world．

1.A．keepB．watchC．followD．search

2.A．jumpB．diveC．circleD．wander

3.A．nestB．hillC．waterD．road

4.A．quicklyB．naturallyC．freelyD．quietly

5.A．meansB．readsC．showsD．states

6.A．thoughB．becauseC．whileD．until

7.A．communicationB．imaginationC．beliefD．flight

8.A．dreamedB．worriedC．knewD．argued

9.A．improvedB．enrichedC．changedD．ruined

10.A．educatedB．adoptedC．outgoingD．independent

11.A．weakB．comfortableC．terribleD．central

12.A．betweenB．againstC．withoutD．beyond

13.A．mostB．fewC．theirD．my

14.A．desperateB．bored

C．uncomfortableD．disappointed

15.A．noiseB．callC．decisionD．choice

16.A．ashamedB．confusedC．embarrassedD．frightened

17.A．triedB．cameC．determinedD．expected

18.A．evidenceB．distinctionC．profitD．sense

19.A．identifiedB．confirmedC．realizedD．predicted

20.A．conceptsB．regulationsC．messagesD．evaluations