题目内容
One day, feeling very sad and lonely, she was walking through a grassland when she noticed a small
butterfly caught in a thorn (荆棘) bush. The young girl carefully released the butterfly. Instead of flying
away, the little butterfly changed into a beautiful fairy. The young girl rubbed her eyes in disbelief.
"For your wonderful kindness," the good fairy said to the girl, "I will give you any wish you would like."
The little girl thought for a moment and then replied, "I want to be happy."
The fairy leaned toward her and whispered in her ear. Then the fairy disappeared.
As the little girl grew up, there was no one in the land as happy as she. Everyone asked her secret of
happiness. She would only smile and answer, "The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a good fairy
when I was a little girl."
When she was very old and on her deathbed, the neighbors all gathered around her, that her unbelievable
secret of happiness would die with her. "Tell us, please," they begged, "Tell us what the good fairy said."
The lovely old woman simply smiled and said, "She told me that everyone, no matter how secure they seemed,
no matter how old or young, how rich or poor, had need of me."
B. There was nobody to love her so
C. There was nothing to do
D. Seeing the butterfly was caught
B. felt sorrow, but she didn't go up to help it
C. fell down on it too
D. failed to help it release from the thorn
B. to have her own parents
C. to have a lot of friends
D. happiness
B. the woman had lots of money to be shared as soon as she died
C. they wanted to know the secret of her lifetime happiness
D. they wanted to pray for her after her death
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