单选题 Mx Black was young and able. He worked very hard. And the boss liked him. Last month he was sent to China on business. When he got to Beijing, he visited some places of interest and felt very happy.
One morning before he left for London, he decided to buy something for Tony, the son of his boss. At first he didn't know what to buy for the boy. Suddenly he remembered that the boy liked birds very much, so he went to the bird market. He was glad to find that there were so many kinds of birds there. He bought four beautiful birds, then he told the boy about it on the telephone.
As soon as Mr Black returned to London by air, he went to Tony with the four birds. But on his way to the boss's home, one of them, flew out of the cage(笼子) and there were only three birds left in it, Then Mr Black bought a local(当地的) bird to take the place of the missing Chinese one.
Tony of course was very happy when he saw the birds. But soon he found one of them was different from the other three. He asked, "It's a local bird, isn't it, Mr Black?"
"Yes, it is. " Mr Black answered, "It's an interpreter(翻译)./

单选题 The boss sent Mr Black to China on business because ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】分析推理题。文章一开篇即介绍故事的主人公说：Mr Black was young and able...liked him，即Black先生年轻、能干、工作勤奋，老板很喜欢他。紧跟着文章说他被派往中国出差。由此可知，他的这些品质就是老板喜欢他并派他出差的原因，选[B] 。

单选题 Mr Black bought four birds because ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】分析推理题。文章第二段介绍了他替老板的儿子选购礼物的原因。其中第三句指出：...the boy liked birds very much(那孩子很喜欢鸟)，如果买鸟作礼物，肯定会让孩子高兴——这就是他给孩子买4只鸟作礼物的原因，选[C] 。

单选题 Mr Black returned to London ______.

单选题 Mr Black said the local bird was an interpreter because ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】分析推理硒。文章最后三段记叙了Mr Black回到伦敦、丢失一只鸟、他买了一只本地鸟凑数、然后向孩子解释的过程。由常识可知，孩子发现那只本地鸟后Mr Black肯定不好意思实话实说，他说那只鸟是“翻译”只可能是一种玩笑的说法，选[C] 。这也正是这个故事的幽默所在，他将鸟与人进行类比，中国的鸟到英国去也需要一个“翻译”。