It is very important to be able to control（控制) yourself. Losing control may bring things that you would never want to see. We can learn something from the following story.

　 Once a boy often made trouble. His mother gave him many nails（钉子）. She told him to hammer（锤，钉）one in the garden fence every time he lost his patience and fought with someone. The first day he hammered 27 nails. In the following weeks he learned how to control himself better and the number of nails hammered became smaller and smaller. He learned it was easier to control himself than to hammer nails.

　 The day finally came when he didn’t hammer any nails. He went to tell his mother about it. Then his mother told him to pull off a nail from the fence each time he didn’t lose his patience. After some days he told his mother that all the nails had been pulled off, Thus, she took him to the fence and said to him, “You’ve behaved well, but look at all the holes in the fence. The fence will never be again like it was before. When you fight with someone, you leave wounds（伤口）in him like these. The trouble may be over, but the wounds will always be there.”

　 So, learn to control yourself before you hammer the nail in the fence. Try not to leave any holes in your past.

(　 ) 51. Why did the mother give her son nails?

　 A. To put the garden fence right.　　　　 B. To help him understand something.　　　　

　 C. To put them away.　　　　　　　　　 D. To make him lose patience.

(　 ) 52. When did the boy hammer a nail?

A. When he brought things to his mother.　　 B. When he repaired his fence.

C. When he fought with others.　　　　　　 D. When he leave a hole in the garden.

(　 ) 53. What’s the best title of this passage?

A.A Special Way My Mother taught me　　　 B. How to Hammer Nails

C. How to Pull Off a Nail　　　　　　　　 D. Never Fight with Others

阅读下面短文，从四个选项中，选出能完成所给句子的最佳答案。

Mr. White was living in the country, and he wanted to go to an office in the city one day. He found the address on a letter, got into his car and drove to the city. He drove straight to the office without any trouble and stopped in front of the door. He locked his car and started to go into the office, but then he turned around and went back to his car.“I've locked my keys in it.”he said to himself. He telephoned his wife and said,“Excuse me, but I've locked my keys in my car. Please bring me your keys.”Mrs. White got into their second car and drove twenty miles(英里) to help her husband. But while he was waiting for her, he walked around his car and tried the other door. It was not locked! He locked it quickly before his wife arrived.

1. Mr. White and Mrs. White didn't live ______.

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A. in the city　　　　 B. in the country

C. in the village　　　D. in the other countries

2. It was ______ for Mr. White to get to the office.

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A. difficult　　　　　B. very hard

C. not difficult　　　D. not easy

3 Mr. White thought ______.

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A. he put the keys in the door

B. he didn't lock the other door

C. he locked his key in it

D. he left his keys in the car

4 Mrs. White _______.

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A. was helped by her husband

B. went to help him

C. wanted to look for the keys

D. wanted for him

5. From the story we know that at last

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A. Mrs. White opened the door and got the keys.

B. Mr. White got the keys himself

C. Mrs. White was very angry

D. Mrs. White helped to try the other door