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五、阅读回答(共4小题；前3小题每题2分，第4小题3分，满分9分)
阅读下面短文，回答短文后的问题。(前3题每题答案不超过10个词)
It was morning, and the new sun was shining gold across the gentle sea. A crowd of a thousand seagulls(海鸥) were fighting for bits of food. But far away from these birds, Jonathan Seagull was practicing flying alone.
Most seagulls don't trouble themselves to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get food and come back. For most seagulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this seagull, however, flight is much more important than eating. More than anything else, Jonathan Seagull loved to fly.
This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make oneself popular with other birds. Even his parents were unhappy.
“See here, Jonathan,” said his father not unkindly. “Winter isn't far away. If you don't study how to get food, you might die of hunger in the future. Flying is all very well, but you can't eat flight, you know.”
Jonathan understood what his father meant. For the next few days he tried to act like the other seagulls; he really tried, screaming and fighting with other seagulls for fish and bread. But he couldn't make it work.
“It's all so worthless,” he thought. “I could be spending all this time learning to fly. There's so much to learn.”
It wasn't long before Jonathan Seagull was off by himself again, far out at sea, hungry, happy, learning. The subject was speed, and in a week's practice he learned more about speed than the fastest seagull alive.

41. What did Jonathan Seagull like doing most?
He liked flying/to fly most.
42. What did Father mean by saying “you can't eat flight”?
He wished Jonathan to study how to get food/to know the importance of food.
43. What did Jonathan think of fighting with others for food?
It was worthless/meaningless/not meaningful.
44. Do you think Jonathan will die of hunger finally? Why or why not?
No, he won't. He can fly fastest so he can get food faster than other seagulls./Yes, he will. Although he can fly fastest, he still doesn't know how to get food.

答案： 五、文体：说明文
文章大意：本文主要介绍海鸥Jonathan喜欢独自练习飞行，即使没有食物果腹。最后他学会了比其他海鸥更快的速度。
41.He liked flying/to fly most. 根据第二段中“More than anything else，Jonathan Seagull loved to fly.”可知，Jonathan最热爱飞翔。
42.He wished Jonathan to study how to get food/to know the importance of food. 根据第四段父亲对Jonathan说的话可知，如果不在冬天来临之前学会如何获取食物，Jonathan可能会饿死，因此父亲说“you can’t eat flight”意在提醒Jonathan要先解决生存需要，即先学会如何获取食物/了解食物的重要性。
43.It was worthless/meaningless/not meaningful. 根据倒数二段可知，Jonathan认为争抢食物毫无意义。
44.No，he won’t. He can fly fastest so he can get food faster than other seagulls./Yes，he will. Although he can fly fastest，he still doesn’t know how to get food. 本题属于开放性试题，言之有理即可。