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Once there was a man who liked to eat mangoes. One day he decided to get the sweetest mango from the very top of the tree. Mangoes which are exposed to the sun the most are the sweetest.
So he climbed up to the top, where the branches were thin. He managed to pick up a few sweet reddish fruits, but, in an attempt to climb down, he slipped and started falling towards the ground. Fortunately, he caught the branch as he was falling and remained helplessly hanging on the tree. Then he started to call nearby villagers for help. They immediately came with a ladder and sticks, but could do little to help him.
Then after some time one calm and thoughtful person arrived — a well-known sage (a wise person) who lived in a simple hut nearby. People were very curious to see what he would do, as he was famous in solving many people’s problems in the area and sometimes very complicated ones.
He was silent for a minute and then picked up a stone and threw it at the hanging man.
Everybody was surprised. The hanging mango lover started to shout: “What are you doing?! Are you crazy? Do you want me to break my neck?” The sage was silent. Then he took another stone and threw it at the man. The man was very angry: “If I could just come down, I would show you!”
That’s what everybody wanted. Then he was coming down. But how? Now everybody was tense about what would happen next! Some wanted to blame the sage, but they didn’t. The sage picked another stone and threw it again at the man, even more forcefully. Now the man on the tree was even more angry and developed a great determination to come down and take revenge (复仇).
He then used all his skill and strength and somehow reached the branches which were safe to start going down. And he made it! Everybody was amazed.
However, the rescued man found the sage gone. He stood there, realizing that the man really saved him because he induced (引诱) him to try his best and save himself.
“I should be thankful and not angry.”
【小题1】From the story we know that the sweetest mango must be the one ______.

Bill was a very good pilot. He had been in the air force for several years, and had been very successful. Now he was sent to a small field in the middle of a forest,  1  planes were able to attack the enemy very easily,  2  it was near the front line, but  3  to find. The forest trees were very tall and very  4  on all sides, so planes had to go down very quickly and then stop their falling very  5  before they   6   on the ground. Only the  7  pilots were able to land safely, and even some of those lost their planes and  8  because they hit the trees on the ground.

After Bill had arrived, he was not  9  until he was able to fly closer to the trees than any of   10  pilots, and soon all the pilots who used that field were trying to  11  each other at flying  12  over forest. Every time one of their planes came back from the attack on the enemy, the other pilots used to run  13  and watch, to see how near the  14   its pilot took it. If the pilot succeeded in taking very near ,they laughed and shouted.

Bill soon  15  exactly how near he was able to go safely, and then one day he flew so close to the  16  of the trees that some of the branches  17  the bottom of his plane. The other men in the plane seemed rather  18  ,but Bill only laughed as he landed the plane without any  19  in the middle of the field,  20  the other pilots on the ground shouted happily,“How silly I am!” he said.“I forgot that the trees had grown since yesterday!”

1．A．from which           B．in which              C．on which             D．at which

2．A．for                       B．when                  C．where                 D．so

3．A．difficult                 B．easy                    C．tough                  D．strong

4．A．old                       B．near                    C．close                   D．secret

5．A．slowly                  B．suddenly              C．quickly                D．carefully

6．A．fell                       B．struck                 C．landed                 D．hit

7．A．young                   B．best                    C．old                      D．able

8．A．were killed            B．were caught         C．were shot            D．were defeat

9．A．skilled                   B．fit                       C．trained                D．satisfied

10．A．other                   B．the other              C．all the                  D．others

11．A．help                    B．understand           C．beat                    D．see

12．A．low                     B．high                    C．up                      D．fast

14．A．houses                B．ground                C．enemy                 D．trees

15．A．found                  B．thought               C．realized               D．learnt

16．A．nearest                B．branches             C．tops                    D．leaves

17．A．touched               B．scratched            C．snatched             D．knocked

18．A．surprised             B．pleased                C．helpless               D．frightened

19．A．trouble                B．danger                 C．stones                 D．trees

20．A．so                      B．when                  C．while                  D．as

Once there was a man who lied to eat mangoes. One day he decided to get the sweetest mango from the very top of the tree. Mangoes which are exposed to the sun the most are the sweetest.
So he climbed up to the top, where the branches were thin. He managed to pick up a few sweet reddish fruits, but, in an attempt to climb down, he slipped and started falling towards the ground. Fortunately, he caught the branch as he was falling and remained helplessly hanging on the tree. Then he started to call nearby villagers for help. They immediately came with a ladder and sticks, but could do little to help him.
Then after some time one calm and thoughtful person arrived - a well-known sage who lived in a simple hut nearby. People were very curious to see what he would do, as he was famous in solving many people’s problems in the area and sometimes very complicated ones.
He was silent for a minute and then picked up a stone and threw it at the hanging man.
Everybody was surprised. The hanging mango lover started to shout: What are you doing?! Are you crazy? Do you want me to break my neck?”  The sage was silent. Then he took another stone and threw it at the man. The man was very angry: “If I could just come down, I would show you!”
That’s what everybody wanted - that he came down. But how? Now everybody was tense, as to what would happen next! Some wanted to chastise the sage, but they didn’t. The sage picked another stone and threw it again at the man, even more forcefully. Now the man on the tree was enraged and developed a great determination to come down and take revenge.（复仇）
He then used all his skill and strength and somehow reached the branches which were safe to start going down. And he made it! Everybody was amazed.
However, the rescued man found the sage gone. He stood there, realizing that the man really sed him because he induced（引诱）him to try his best and save himself.
“I should be thankful and not angry.”
【小题1】From the story we know that the sweetest mango must be the one        .

Peggy Hilt wanted to be a good mother. But day after day, she got out of bed feeling like a failure. No matter what she tried, she couldn’t connect with Nina, the 2-year -old girl she’d adopted from Russia as an infant （幼儿). The preschooler （学龄前儿童）pulled away whenever Hilt tried to hug or kiss her. Nina was physically aggressive with her 4-year-old sister, who had been adopted from Ukraine, and had violent tantrums（发脾气). Whenever Hilt wasn’t watching, she destroyed the family’s furniture and possessions. “Every day with Nina had become a struggle,” she recalls now.
As the girl grew older, things got worse. Hilt fell into a deep depression. She started drinking heavily, something she’d never done before. Ashamed, she hid her problem from everyone, including her husband.
On the morning of July 1, 2005, Hilt was packing for a family vocation, all the while swallowing one beer after another and growing increasingly angry and impatient with Nina’s deeds. “Everything she did just got to me,” Hilt said. When Hilt caught her reaching into her diaper（尿布）and smearing feces（粪便）on the walls and furniture, “a year and a half of frustration came to a head,” Hilt says. “I snapped（崩溃). I felt this uncontrollable rage.”
Then Hilt did something unthinkable. She grabbed Nina around the neck, shook her and then dropped her to the floor, where she kicked her repeatedly before dragging her up to her room, punching her as they went. “I had never hit a child before,” she says. “I felt horrible and promised myself that this would never happen again.” But it was too late for that. Nina woke up with a fever, and then started throwing up. The next day she stopped breathing. By the time the ambulance got the child to the hospital, she was dead.
Hilt is now serving a 19-year sentence for second-degree murder in a Virginia prison. She and her husband divorced, and he is raising their other daughter. She realizes the horror of her crime and says she isn’t looking for sympathy. “There is no punishment severe enough for what I did,” she told NEWSWEEK in an interview at the prison.

1. 1.

   This story mainly tells us __________.

   1. A.
      a cruel mother who killed her daughter
   2. B.
      a social problem of adoption
   3. C.
      a family problem in Western countries
   4. D.
      an unlucky child’s fortune
2. 2.

   How did Hilt let out her depression at the beginning?

   1. A.
      By hitting her adopted girl.
   2. B.
      By showing her more love.
   3. C.
      By drinking heavily.
   4. D.
      By hugging and kissing her.
3. 3.

   What does the underlined sentence in Para.4 mean?

   1. A.
      It was too late to hit the girl in order to make her good.
   2. B.
      It was too late to save the girl’s life.
   3. C.
      It was too late to regret hitting the girl.
   4. D.
      It was too late to regret adopting the girl.
4. 4.

   “NEWSWEEK” in the last sentence of this text refers to a __________.

   1. A.
      magazine
   2. B.
      journalist
   3. C.
      book
   4. D.
      policeman
5. 5.

   Why do some adoptions go so wrong？

   1. A.
      It’s the kid’s fault.
   2. B.
      It’s the mother’s fault.
   3. C.
      It’s the fault of the society.
   4. D.
      The writer doesn’t mention the reason.