One day, a boy had a fight with one of his classmates. He didn’t wait until school was over, and hurried home to his grandfather. He told him his story angrily. “He is really bad,” the boy said, “and I hate him.”

The grandfather said, “Let me tell you a story. When I was a boy, I, too, sometimes hated others for what they did…”

As the boy listened carefully, the grandfather went on, “There are always two tigers inside my heart. One is good and kind. He gets on well with everything around him. But the other is bad and unfriendly. Even the smallest thing will make him angry. He fights with everyone all the time, and for no reason. He can’t think carefully because he always hates others. It is difficult to live with these two tigers inside my heart. They both try to control me.”

The boy looked into his grandfather’s eyes and asked, “Which tiger always controls you, Grandfather?”

The old man said slowly and seriously, “The one that I feed. I always feed the good and kind tiger, so I never hate others and seldom get angry now.”

根据短文内容,选择最佳答案。

1.The boy went to his grandfather ____.

A.before he went to school B.when he went to school

C.after school was over D.after he had a fight

2.The good tiger ____ everything around him.

A.doesn’t like B.gets along well with C.isn’t interested in D.wants to eat

3.The bad tiger fights with everyone all the time ____.

A.because others wants to kill him B.because he wants to eat others

C.for no reason D.because others aren’t friendly to him

4.The good tiger can control the grandfather because ____.

A.the good tiger is much stronger

B.the good tiger can get along well with others

C.the grandfather treats the tiger very well

D.the grandfather hates the bad tiger

5.The writer wants to tell us ____ in the passage.

A.how to feed tigers well B.how to control our feelings

C.how to get along with others D.how to fight with others

FUN WITH COOKIE

Paul: “I have been working for this company for ten years, however they chose the new guy for promotion (升职) over me.”

Julia: “Well, that’s just the way the cookie breaks into pieces.”

This is an informal expression that means bad things happen in life and there is nothing you can really do to prevent it. It’s not worth getting sad; you should just try and accept it calmly.

Of course in the UK we would generally use the word “biscuit” instead of cookie when talking about those hard baked, sweet, flat cakes which are so popularly eaten with a cup of tea. Cookie is originally a Dutch term meaning little cake and has spread to the United States because of immigration (移民) from Holland.

Also in the US we can find “fortune cookies” which are usually served with Chinese food. However they are almost unknown in mainland China and were invented in California by Asian immigrants. They are crisp cookies with pieces of paper inside, on which are written clever sayings, prophecies (预言) or words of wisdom.

A Cookie in computing is a collection of information which is used by websites to know users who have visited the site before. They are stored on your computer when you use the Internet, and also you will find the websites you used easily.

A cookie can also be a person. A tough cookie is unemotional (冷漠的) and a hard businessman while a smart cookie is sharp, clever and not easily fooled.

Biscuit and cookie is just one example of the difference between British and American words.

It is fun to know what “COOKIE” 1.in different ways

An informal expression

● It means that we can’t stop something bad happening in life, we’d better accept it in2..

“Biscuit” or“Cookie”

● Englishmen usually eat “biscuits” at teatime.

● Cookie is first used by the people from Holland.

● Later, Americans don’t use “biscuits”, they use cookies 3. .

Fortune cookie

● Fortune cookies have pieces of paper inside with clever sayings, prophecies (预言) or words of wisdom.

A Cookie in computing

● When people use computers, some information is4.and stored on their computers.

● With the help of cookies, Users will have no difficulty finding the websites again next time.

To describe a person

● If somebody does business5.kindness, he is a tough cookie.

● If somebody often gets a high score in exams, he must be a smart cookie.

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