One day a farmer went out for a walk with his daughter．The farmer put on a pair of wrong shoes－one with a thick sole(鞋底)and the other with a thin one．So as he began to walk, he felt very uncomfortable．When he was just out of the house, he turned to his daughter and said, “Why should one of my legs be longer than the other today?”
The daughter looked at his father’s legs carefully as he was walking, and then laughed, “Oh, no, Daddy, your legs are all right．You have put on the wrong shoes．”
The farmer was very happy to hear that and said to himself, “What a clever daughter I have got!” Then he asked his daughter to go back and get the other pair of shoes for him．
The farmer had only two pairs of shoes．
When the daughter ran back to the house, she found that the other pair was also a pair of wrong shoes．
She had to return to his father with nothing in her hands and said out of breath, “It’s no use changing them, Daddy! The shoes at home were not a pair, either!”
(1)
When the farmer went out for a walk with his daughter, he put on a pair of ________ shoes．
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A．
wrong
B．
comfortable
C．
old
D．
new
(2)
A pair of wrong shoes means ________．
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A．
the shoes are not the farmer’s
B．
the shoes are too small
C．
one of the shoes has a thick sole, the other has a thin one, they are not a pair
D．
the shoes are too big
(3)
When the farmer began to walk, he felt very uncomfortable because ________．
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A．
one of his legs was longer than the other one
B．
he was ill that day
C．
he wore a pair of wrong shoes
D．
the shoes were too small
(4)
The farmer thought his daughter was a clever girl because ________．
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A．
she could make shoes
B．
she could find out that her father wore a pair of wrong shoes
C．
she could find out a pair of right shoes
D．
she found that her father’s legs were sick
(5)
The father asked his daughter to go and get the other pair of shoes for him and the daughter ________．
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A．
brought back a pair of wrong shoes
B．
brought back a pair of right shoes
C．
didn’t bring any shoes; she knew the other pair at home was not a pair, either
You will have a lot of reading to do in this grade this year．You can do more of it in less time if you learn to read rapidly．
Perhaps you have been told about some habits (习惯) which keep a person from reading fast and have been strongly asked to break those habits which you might have．
Do you still have any of these bad habits?Check yourself by answering“yes”or“no”to these questions．
(1) Do you move your lips (嘴唇) when reading silently?
(2) Do you point to words with your finger as you read?
(3)Do you move your head from side to side as you read?
(4)Do you read one word at a time?
If you answer“yes”to any of these questions,start at once to break the habit．If you move your tips，hold your fingers over them，or hold a piece of paper be-tween your lips while you are reading．Then if your lips move，your will know it and can stop them．
If you point to words，hold the two sides of your book，one side with your left hand，the other side with your right hand．Then you won't have a free finger to use in pointing while reading．If you move your head，place your chin (下巴) in one hand and hold your head still (静止不动的)．
If you read no more than one or two or three words at a time，you need to work very hard in learning to take in (吸收) more words at each glance (一瞥) as your eyes travel across the lines of words．
Even if you do rather fast now，you can learn to read even faster．As you probably have been told，the secret of fast reading is to take in whole groups of words as each glance．Read in through groups and force (迫使) your eyes along the lines of words as fast as you can to make them go．Anyone who practices doing these things will he able to read faster．
(1)
You may hold your fingers over your lips while reading so as ______．
A．to tell others to be silent
B．to feel whether your lips move or not
C．to hold a piece of paper between them
D．to keep yourself from talking to others
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(2)
When you read，______．
A．don't keep your head still
B．don't hold your books with your hands
C．don't stand up near a desk
D．don't use your finger to point to words
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(3)
If you learn to read fast，______．
A．you can read more in less time
B．you can write faster
C．you can understand better
D．you can read less in more time
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(4)
You must _______ those habits that we are talking about in this reading．
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