一、 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和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。
When my sisters and I were little, we were 1 to take naps. The summer I was seven, I asked to take my 2 in a tree in the orchard(果园), the place I went to when I wanted to be alone and 3 . In the tree, I had a(n) 4 view of the orchard, our house, fields, barns and fences. My sisters once forgot so completely that they stood under the tree 5 secrets.
One afternoon I climbed the tree 6 , grabbing branches and 7 my feet carefully until I was as high as I could go. 8 , a flying noise attracted my attention. An owl 9 on a thick branch and gripped it with her talons. She pressed her wings to her side and settled down. So natural did I make myself to the tree that the owl would not 10 at my being there. She flew 11 among branches until she noticed me. The owl hesitated for one second 12 she lifted her wings and dropped away into space. I gasped and watched her go, 13 she would return. She had