He was pleased to learn that Chibi knew all the places where the wild grapes and wild potatoes grew. He was amazed to   16   how much Chibi knew about all the flowers in our class garden. He liked Chibi’s black and white drawings and put them up on the wall to be __17___. He liked Chibi’s own handwriting, which no one but Chibi could read, and he put that up on the wall.
But, when Chibi appeared on the stage at the talent show of that year, no one could   18   his eyes. “Who is that?” “What can that stupid do up there?”
Until Mr. Isobe announced that Chibi was going to imitate (模仿) the voices of crows. “Voices?” “Voices of crows?”
  19   he imitated the voices of newly hatched crows. And he made the mother crowds voice. Then he imitated the father crow’s voice. He showed how crows cry early in the morning. He showed how crows cry when the village people have some unhappy accident. He showed how crows   20   when they are happy and cheerful. Everybody’s mind was taken to the   21   mountainside from which Chibi probably came to school.
Chibi made very special   22   deep down in his throat(喉咙) to imitate a crow in an old tree in the end. Now everybody could imagine   23   the far and lonely place where Chibi lived with his family.
Then Mr. Isobe explained   24   Chibi had learned those calls—leaving his home for school at sunrise, and arriving home at sunset, every day for six long years.
Every one of us cried, thinking how much we had been   25   to Chibi all those long years. He was a boy beyond our usual imagination!
16. A. complain B. count C. find D. refuse
17. A. admired B. printed C. punished D. avoided
18. A. check B. hurt C. open D. believe
19. A. Later B. Next C. Last D. First
20. A. jump B. call C. fly D. dance
21. A. far B. crowded C. near D. modern
22. A. scripts B. reports C. speeches D. sounds
23. A. hardly B. happily C. exactly D. peacefully
24. A. what B. how C. whether D. who
25. A. wrong B. kind C. honest D. generous

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【主旨大意】
本文是一篇记叙文。小男孩Chibi站在才艺秀上时，人们都认为他很愚蠢，可是当他模仿乌鸦各种各样的叫声，以及Mr. Isobe解释他为什么会这些声音时，每个人都哭了，知道自己错的有多离谱，才知道Chibi是一个我们想象不到的小男孩。
16. C考查动词词义辨析。complain解释；count数数；find发现，找到；refuse拒绝。根据上文“He was pleased to learn that”可知此处指的也是“He”知道/了解/发现Chibi了解花园里所有的花，分析四个选项可知“find”符合句意。故选C。