Besides electricity, a lion fears water the most, and a rainstorm with thunder and lightning brings both. For that reason I always have a written   1   that frees me from   2   when it's raining.

For two days it was raining without stopping. By the third night, it wasn't raining at all. I   3

the sign to the announcer, and the band began   4   my music.

The animals went through their tricks, but they were far from being   5  about the wetness.

And so we came to the head-in-mouth   6  . When I pulled Leo's mouth open raising his face and nose to the   7  . I noticed that the muscles (肌肉) of his jaws (上、下顎) were tense. Then, as I put my head in, a rain began pouring down. I felt Leo become   8   all over.

My head was in now. I counted to ten and then gave him the tap-on-jaw   9   to let me go. But then nothing happened.

I   10   again on his jaw. Leo's mouth was like a steel trap. I heard gunfire men were trying to get Leo's   11  . But already, with my face   12   in the back of his mouth, I was finding it hard to breathe, I knew what had happened: with the   13   beating on his face, Leo had forgotten me. I heard the gunfire again.

I awoke with an oxygen mask   14   my face, and a doctor was working over me." You're   15  ," said the doctor, "as soon as you went faint (頭暈的), the lion   16   you. For nearly three minutes you had no heartbeat!"

By then it had   17   raining. I called Leo back and opened his jaw. "Don't be a fool!" the doctor said,   18   I put my head in and counted to ten. Then I have Leo the tap on the jaw --and he obeyed immediately.

Yet, when I tried to trick again the next time, Leo   19  . I believed he was unwilling to   20   me a second time. I never did the trick again.

1. A. suggestion            B. notice                       C. agreement                D. decision

2. A. performing           B. trying                       C. acting                      D. training

3. A. set                       B. gave                         C. put                          D. made

4. A. making                 B. playing                     C. enjoying                   D. practising

5. A. happy                   B. sad                          C. sorry                       D. anxious

6. A. joke                            B. trick                         C. play                         D. attempt

7. A. sky                      B. earth                        C. cage                        D. ceiling

8. A. angry                   B. excited                     C. tense                        D. frightened

9. A. mark                    B. sign                         C. order                       D. information

10. A. hit                      B. beat                         C. pulled                       D. tapped

11. A. silence                B. control                            C. attention                   D. death

12. A. buried                 B. hidden                      C. put                          D. sunk

13. A. stick                   B. gun                          C. rain                          D. hand

14. A. in                       B. above                       C. below                      D. over

15. A. foolish                B. crazy                       C. safe                         D. lucky

16. A. kept                   B. dropped                    C. fell                           D. bit

17. A. begun                 B. stopped                    C. continued                 D. been

18. A. and                    B. so                            C. but                          D. or

19. A. obeyed               B. refused                     C. agreed                      D. regretted

20. A. hurt                    B. kill                           C. damage                    D. fool

1~5 CABBA           6~10 BACBD         11~15 CACDD             16~20 BBCBA

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