古怪     奇怪

①老农想出了一个____的办法，买回一批蛇放在田里，庄稼获得了好收成。

②猫的性格实在有些____。

        傲然     傲慢

③鹅的步态，更是____了。

④它常____地站着，看见人走来也毫不相让。

中美两国自建交以来，虽有分歧，但遇有重大国际事务都会适时保持联系和接触。对此理解正确的是(   )

根据短文理解, 从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择最佳答案填空。

    On Mother's Day, after my children arrived home from school, the doorbell 1 . I went to answer it, and there stood two clean-faced, tall, smiling2 . They held two of the most beautiful flowers I had ever seen. They said to me, “Do you 3 us? You often fed us cookies! They were so 4 . We wanted to come back and thank you and say “Happy Mother's Day” because you were like a mom to us!” I couldn't help crying, and thanked them.

    I remembered the old days. At that time I did not have a lot of money or a big house and l was a single mom with three young  5 of my own. The two boys were a bit older than my children. They always visited my yard, but they 6 cared about the fact that their faces were dirty. Every day they enjoyed themselves with my 7 girls and one small boy.

    I spent a lot of time 8 healthy cookies. The two boys played happily in my yard, and they were quite happy to share food, books, games and then, for a time, they didn't  9 us. I wanted to know what happened in their lives, and hoped for the best.

    But now they came back and thanked me. This is the 10 gift I have ever received from two young boys.

阅读下列材料，回答问题。

材料一：十二届全国人大五次会议15日表决通过了《中华人民共和国民法总则》。

材料二：从1954年至2002年近半个世纪，曾先后四次组织民法的起草，但都半路夭折或未实现预期的目标。2014年十八届四中全会研究通过《中共中央关于全面推进依法治国若干重大问题的决定》，明确提出“编纂民法典”的重要立法任务，由此为基点，民法典编纂进入快车道。下图为《民法总则》的制定过程：

材料三：马克思说，法典是人民自由的圣经。