二、Cloze Test 克漏字測驗 (每題2分，共14%)
(27-29)
A man went into a pet shop, wanting to buy a parrot. He saw a beautiful parrot, which was the   27  . he’d ever seen, and asked how much it was. The shop owner answered, “That parrot is $1000.”
“What?!” cried the man, “$1000 for a bird? What does it do?”
“Well, I’m glad you asked,” said the shop owner. “You see, that parrot can sing every woman’s role in our opera house from memory.” The man thought, “OK, but I don’t have so much money.”
He saw a parrot which is   28.        than the first one and he thought it would be cheaper. He asked how much that was. “The parrot is $2000,” answered the shop owner, and the man asked what this parrot could do. “Well, he can play any Paganini concerto that you ask the parrot to on the violin from memory.” The man thought, “Wow, but I really don’t have so much money.”
He then saw an old, hunched, half-dead, ugly, parrot sitting in the corner of a cage, and, thought that this bird couldn’t be so expensive. He asked the shop owner how much it was. “Oh, that parrot   29.      $20000,” he answered. Shocked, the man asked what this bird could do. “Oh, we haven’t found out yet,” the owner answered. “But the other two call him Master.”
*parrot 鸚鵡 opera歌劇 concerto協奏曲 hunch弓背，彎腰 master 大師
【題組】27.
(A) lovely
(B) lovelier
(C) loveliest
(D) very lovely