Question

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 ________would ever know 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 significance of it. Yes, you can fool everyone else, ________ you cannot “fool the chickens,” because ________, you will find out, as the saying goes, “What goes around comes around.”

1.A. cook B. share C. study D. work

2.A. take care of B. observe C. train D. pay attention to

3.A. enjoy B. borrow C. buy D. keep

4.A. nest B. soup C. meat D. feed

5.A. given back B. picked up C. left over D. brought in

6.A. thrilled B. worried C. satisfied D. discouraged

7.A. deal B. contribution C. fortune D. choice

8.A. hear B. notice C. predict D. imagine

9.A. said B. found C. thought D. recalled

10.A. prize B. lucky C. pocket D. enough

11.A. missed B. wasted C. saved D. finished

12.A. hatching B. laying C. bringing D. hiding

13.A. handed out B. checked out C. cut down D. put down

14.A. delighted B. shocked C. tired D. disappointed

15.A. nobody B. everybody C. someone D. anyone

16.A. silence B. absence C. discussion D. preparation

17.A. heavy B. fresher C. less D. solid

18.A. life B. job C. case D. mind

19.A. or B. but C. and D. so

20.A. in fact B. in the end C. in contrast D. in addition

Answer 1