On the way to school, a little boy found a cocoon(茧) of a butterfly and watched it everyday. One day, it started to break through a small hole in the cocoon, but it  26 greatly. Finally, it seemed it couldn’t succeed.

The boy felt  27  for the butterfly because he knew it was going to die if it didn’t get out. So he ran into the house and got a pair of  28  and cut the cocoon a little. The butterfly came out and was free.

The only strange thing was that the butterfly has a swollen(肿胀的) body and dry  29  . The boy kept waiting for the swelling to go down and for the wings to grow, but  30 didn’t. The butterfly crawled（爬）around and unable to  31  and then it died an early death.

Therefore, he learnt that the butterfly was supposed to struggle to get out of the cocoon. In fact, the struggle to get out of the cocoon  32 the fluid(液) out of the body and it its wings.  33 the struggle, the butterfly couldn’t grow, and would   34  fly. By trying to help the butterfly, the boy  35  hurt it.

There was once an 11-year-old boy who went fishing every time he went to an island in the middle of a New Hampshire lake.

On the day before bass (巴斯鱼) season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening, catching other fish with worms. Then he tied on a small silver lure (鱼饵) and put it into the lake. Suddenly the boy felt something very big pulling on the lure. His father watched with admiration as the boy skillfully brought the fish beside the bank. Finally he lifted the tired fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen, but it was a bass.

The boy and his father looked at the big fish. The father lit a match and looked at his watch. It was 10 pm — two hours before the season opened．He looked at the fish, then at the boy. “You’ll have to put it back, son,” he said．

“Dad!” cried the boy. “There will be other fish,” said his father. “Not as big as this one,” cried the boy. He looked around the lake. No other fishermen or boats could be seen in the moon-

light. He looked again at his father.

Even though no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he had caught the fish, the boy could tell from his father’s voice that the decision couldn’t be changed．He threw the huge bass into the black water.

The big fish disappeared. The boy thought that he would never again see such a big fish. That

was 34 years ago. Today the boy is a successful architect in New York City. He often takes his own son and daughters to fish at the same place.

And he was right. He has never again caught such a large fish as the one he got that night long ago. But he does see that same fish ... again and again ... every time he has an ethical (道德的) decision to make. For, as his father had taught him, ethics are simple matters of right and wrong. It is only the practice of ethics that is difficult.

1.．How did the father feel when he saw his son skillfully pulling a big fish out of the water?

    A．Delighted．    B．Nervous.       C．Embarrassed．     D．Shocked．

2.What happened when it became clear that the big fish was a bass?

    A．The boy and his father discussed what to do with the big fish.

    B．The boy threw the bass back into the water willingly.

    C．The father made a decision that the fish must be set free.

    D．They worried other fishermen might know what they had done.

3.The successful architect went fishing with his children at the same place because             .

    A．they might catch a big fish there     B．he remembered the moral lesson from his father

    C．he wanted to remember his father       D．their children enjoyed fishing there

4.What does the author want to show in the story?

    A．It is easy to say something, but difficult to do.

B．An ethical decision is not difficult to make.

    C．It is hard to tell right from wrong sometimes.

    D．Fishing helps you to make right ethical decisions.

The boy felt quite happy because he was closer now to ______ an answer of his own.

A. have found     B. find       C. finding     D. having found

There once was a little boy who often got angry for unknown reasons and ended up quarreling with his friends. His parents felt   36   but had no idea how to deal with the matter.

In order to help the son, his father gave him a bag of   37   and told him that every time he   38   his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the   39  .

At first the boy felt puzzled at his father's words, but he did as he was told. The first day the little boy had   40   thirty nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks,   41   he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily   42   reduced. Three months later, the little boy discovered it was easier to   43   his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence. Finally the day came   44   the little boy did not lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the little boy now   45   one nail each day when he was   46   control his temper. The days passed and the little boy was   47   able to tell his father that all the nails were       48  .

 The father took his little boy   49   the hand and led him to the fence. He said, “You have done well, my son, but look at the   50   in the fence. The fence will never be the   51  .When you say things in anger, they   52   a scar just like this one on the person to whom you lose your temper. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out.   53   many times you say “I'm sorry”, the wound is still there. A mental wound is as bad as a   54   one. The hurt and pain caused by the   55   are deeper than those caused by the hand.

1.A. patient                          B. angry                       C. desperate                     D. worried

2.A. books                           B. tools                        C. nails                               D. suggestions

3.A. kept                            B. missed           C. lost                                    D. left

4.A. hammer                        B. shoes                       C. fence                                D. hands

5.A. discovered                   B. pulled            C. pushed                    D. driven

6.A. as                                   B. unless            C. till                             D. although

7.A. hardly                           B. possibly                   C. terribly                    D. gradually

8.A. catch                             B. lose                          C. break                                D. hold

9.A. before                          B. when                       C. after                                  D. until

10.A. pulled out                           B. pull out          C. pulled over            D. pull over

11.A. able to                        B. managed to   C. succeeded to                  D. going to

12.A. eagerly                       B. fortunately    C. hardly                      D. finally

13.A. lost                              B. returned                 C. gone                                 D. spared

14.A. in                                 B. of                    C. on                                      D. by

15.A. nails                                      B. cuts                          C. surface                    D. holes

16.A. one                             B. same                        C. best                                   D. fence

17.A. run                              B. leave                       C. lead                                   D. remain

18.A. No matter                            B. No doubt                C. How                                  D. However

19.A. serious                       B. violent           C. terrible                   D. physical

20.A. knife                                     B. nail                           C. tongue                    D. hammer

A couple had two little boys aged 8 and 10 who were very naughty．They were always getting into trouble and their parents knew that if any trouble occurred in their town their sons were probably involved.
The boys' mother heard that a clergyman（牧师） in the town had been successful in educating children so she asked if he would speak with her boys．The clergyman agreed but asked to see them individually．So the mother sent her 8-year-old first in the morning with the elder boy to see the clergyman in the afternoon.
The clergyman, a huge man with a booming （嗡嗡） voice, sat the younger boy down and asked him strictly, "Where is God?"
The boy's mouth dropped open but he made no answer, sitting there with his mouth hanging open, wide-eyed．So the clergyman repeated the question in an even stricter tone "Where is God?" Again the boy made no attempt to answer．So the clergyman raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy's face and shouted" Where is God?"
The boy screamed and escaped from the room, ran directly home and dove into his closet, slamming the door behind him．When his elder brother found him in the closet, he asked "What happened?"
The younger brother replied out of breath, "We are in big trouble this time．God is missing--and they think we did it．"
【小题1】What were the two boys like?