I've always loved pigeons(鸽子). Som

 I"ve always loved pigeons(鸽子). Some years ago I managed to persuade my wife to let me buy a few and start   26  them myself. They cost a lot of money and so it spoilt(破坏) our 27 a bit but my wife never actually stopped me so I  28   carried on. I learnt so much about them that I could  29  a good racer anywhere and I bought some beauties. My pigeons won some top races and I even began to make a bit of   30 .

    You see people are prepared to pay big prices if they get to know that your pigeons are  31  big prizes.

    My wife had been changing her  32  to the pigeons over the last year or two anyway. She was quite   33  of all the prizes we’d won. Then there was the pavelling which she liked. You see some one has to take the pigeons a  34  way off and set them free. Some of the  35  were really nice. I never pavelled. I used to like to wait at home and see them come in. They’ve got this wonderful sense of  36 which can bring them back home so quickly. They’d flown hundreds of miles sometimes   37  storms or against spong winds. And there they’d come tiny white birds against the great   38 . Then I"d watch them  39  round and come down onto the landing shelf. I"d look at my watch and think “My goodness that’s a good  40 . ”And I"d take off the little leg ring and push it through the machine to  41  what time he’d arrived. Then my wife would  42 up and say “Has he arrived yet?” Then we would work out if we’d won 43 .

Then last year we had a   44 ! All of them got some sort of flu and  45  . It was terrible. I had to burn them all. We lost a fortune of course.

26. A. racing              B. feeding         C. tending          D. flying

27. A. dream              B. work            C. marriage         D. hobby

28. A. just                B. even            C. almost          D. hardly

29. A. notice            B. learn          C. imagine         D. recognize

30. A. living            B. fun            C. money           D. change

31. A. losing            B. winning        C. giving          D. making

32. A. subject           B.decision        C. relation        D. attitude

33. A. proud             B. fond           C. careful         D. sure

34. A. different         B. 1ong           C. short           D. far

35. A. distances         B. activities     C. pips           D. movements

36. A. direction         B. sight          C. hearing         D. touch

37. A. over              B. across         C. with            D. through

38. A. heaven            B. mountain       C. cloud           D. sky

39. A. turn              B. dance          C. circle          D. whistle

40. A. fly               B. time           C. day             D. 1ook

41. A. write             B. record         C. count           D. memorize

42. A. come              B. show           C. phone           D. cheer

43. A. again            B. finally        C. only            D. accidentally

44. A. disadvantage      B. chance         C. problem         D. disaster

45. A. flew              B. died           C. cured           D. lost