Sarah came running in. She shouted happily, 'Look what I ____36_____.' She put a snake skin on the newspaper I was reading and it came so suddenly that it caused me to ____37_____. 'Mom, look! Isn't it ____38_____?' said my seven-year-old daughter. I ____39_____ the snake skin and thought that it really wasn't pretty. Everything children see ____40_____is full of beauty in their eyes; they see only ____41_____ and excellence in the world until educated. '____42_____ did the snake do this?' Sarah asked. I tried to seize the ____43_____ to teach my children that there was almost always something beyond the obvious. I wanted to tell them that there was something else going on ____44_____ what they saw in front of them. 'Snakes shed (蜕) their skin because they need to renew themselves,' I ____45_____. 'Why do they have to renew themselves?' Sarah asked. My son Robert laughed and said, 'Because they don't ____46_____ what they are and they want to be someone else.' I politely ignored him and said that by shedding skins, we could ____47_____ the hidden reality. 'We often need to shed our skin, those coatings that we ____48_____ ourselves with,' I said to my children, who listened very ____49_____, with their eyes wide open. 'This snake ____50_____ needs this skin. It is probably too hard for him, or he probably doesn't think he looks as ____51_____in it as he once did. It's like buying a new ____52_____.' I'm sure this explanation will not ____53_____ the naturalists. But Sarah was getting to understand that renewal is part of ____54_____. She should learn from it what we need to keep and what we need to ____55_____. 小题1: A．made B．seized C．caught D．found 小题2: A．think B．jump C．run D．struggle 小题3: A．interesting B．smooth C．beautiful D．colorful 小题4: A．stared at B．took off C．referred to D．brought back 小题5: A．by accident B．over and over again C．in the future D．for the first time 小题6: A．honesty B．difference C．value D．fear 小题7: A．Where B．Why C．How D．When 小题8: A．information B．possibility C．opportunity D．question 小题9: A．besides B．for C．without D．around 小题10: A．talked B．explained C．whispered D．shouted 小题11: A．keep B．want C．need D．like 小题12: A．see B．guess C．ignore D．remember 小题13: A．keep B．store C．cover D．improve 小题14: A．properly B．attentively C．sadly D．angrily 小题15: A．once more B．at times C．right now D．no longer 小题16: A．nice B．healthy C．strong D．big 小题17: A．hat B．watch C．suit D．home 小题18: A．move B．satisfy C．correct D．defeat 小题19: A．experience B．achievement C．progress D．competition 小题20: A．throw out B．hope for C．find out D．throw away