题目内容
There was once a young man who began to feel self-satisfied after some small achievements.
One day, the young man took a walk with a _16_ man from the town. On the way the young man was bragging (吹嘘) about himself, _17_ the wise man didn't say a word. When they _18_ a peak (山峰), the wise man asked, "Look down. What do you see?"
"I see trees, farmland, houses and people as _19_ as ants working in the fields," the young man said.
"What do you feel?" the wise man asked.
"Everything is _20_ me. I feel I rule the world," the young man answered.
The wise man said _21_. After a minute, he asked the young man to look _22_ "What do you see this time?" the wise man asked.
"I see _23_ flying around high mountains, the white clouds on the mountains and the _24_ sky above the white clouds," the young man answered.
Then he asked the wise man's _25_
"I feel small and powerless," the wise man answered. "A person who knows to look upward can _26_ understand his position(位置). When a person knows the blue sky is always overhead, he won't be so _27_ as to believe he rules over the world or other people. "
The young man felt foolish(愚蠢的) for his _28_. From then on, _29_ he began to feel as if the world owed (亏欠) him something, he looked up at the sky and remembered _30_ small he really was. Try to look upward when you feel too good about yourself.
16. A. busy B. lazy C. wise D. hard-working
17. A. if B. but C. so D. or
18. A. got to B. got off C. arrived in D. got up
19. A. fat B. light C. small D. strong
20. A. below B. above C. between D. against
21 A. everything B. anything C. something D. nothing
22. A. up B. down C. out D. after
23. A. monkeys B. tigers C. chicks D. birds
24. A. red B. blue C. green D. black
25. A. ways B. name C. feelings D. address
26. A. badly B. angrily C. hardly D. clearly
27. A. clever B. smart C. silly D. useful
28. A. pride B. success C. luck D. smell
29. A. whatever B. whenever C. wherever D. however
30. A. why B. where C. how D. what
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Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood(洪水) ,and quite a few houses were washed away, but Elizabeth’s house was high enough to escape it.
Elizabeth helped one of the families which had lost everything. She shared her home until the family could build a new house. Elizabeth’s friends could not understand her since she already had so many children to take care.
"Well," Elizabeth explained to her friends, at the end of World War II, there was a poor woman in a town in England .Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just like me now .The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, “We won’t be able to have much for Christmas. I’m going to get just one present for us all .Now I’ll go and get it. She came back with a little girl who had no parents .Here’s our present, she said to her own children. The children were more than excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she grow up as their sister. I was that Christmas present."
【小题1】 How many children did Elizabeth have?, 【小题2】 What did Elizabeth do after the flood? 【小题3】The Christmas present was Elizabeth herself, wasn’t it? 【小题4】 What do you learn from the story? |