题目内容
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
When my son Gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to ________, I bought twenty chickens and asked him to ________ them. I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would ________ the eggs from him. However，he would have to buy chicken ________ with the money he made from the eggs. Whatever money was ________ would be his to keep. Gene was ________, thinking he would make his first ________.
After several weeks’ successful work, I began to ________ that egg production was going down, I ________ nothing about it. Then one night, Gene told me he didn’t have ________ money to buy the feed. He said the chickens had never ________ a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped ________ eggs.
Then I asked him if he had ________ the amount of feed he had given the chickens. He was ________. It was like he did not think anyone would ever ________ what he had done. After a long ________—he said yes. He thought he would make more money if he gave them ________ food. I asked him, “Did you fool the chickens?”
I was just astonished at the question in my own ________. I was dumbfounded (惊呆）at the ________ of it. Yes. you can fool everyone else，but you cannot “fool the chickens," because ________, you will find out, as the saying goes, "What goes around comes around."
1.A. cookB. shareC. countD. work
2.A. take care ofB. observe
C. trainD. play with
3.A. saveB. borrowC. buyD. keep
4.A. nestB. soupC. meatD. feed
5.A. given backB. picked upC. left overD. brought in
6.A. thrilledB. worriedC. satisfiedD. discouraged
7.A. dealB. contributionC. fortuneD. choice
8.A. hearB. noticeC. predictD. imagine
9.A. saidB. foundC. thoughtD. recalled
10.A. privateB. honestC. pocketD. enough
11.A. missedB. wastedC. enjoyedD. finished
12.A. hatchingB. layingC. gatheringD. hiding
13.A. balancedB. checked outC. cut downD. measured
14.A. delightedB. shocked
C. tiredD. disappointed
15.A. forgiveB. allowC. discussD. know
16.A. silenceB. absenceC. negotiationD. preparation
17.A. heavyB. fresherC. lessD. solid
18.A. lifeB. jobC. easeD. mind
19.A. explanationB. significance
C. trickD. example
20.A. in this respectB. in the end
C. in contrastD. in addition
