摘要：20．Modern English from about the middle 16th century． A．took place B．came about C．came into being D．happened 笑一笑 Younger Scout: How can I tell the difference between a mushroomand a toadstool? Older Scoout: Just eat one before you go to bed. If you wake up the next morning, it was a mushroom. * * * * * When Peters learned that he was being fired, he went to see the head of human reaources. “Since I’ve been with the firm for so long, he said, “I think I deserve at least a letter of recommendation. The human resources director agreed and said he’d have the letter the next day. The following morning, Peters found a letter on his desk. It read, “Jonathan Peters worked for our company for 11years. When he left us, we were very satisfied. 填一填 There were once six blind men in India, who stood by the roadside every day, begging from the people who passed. They had often heard of elephants, but they had never seen one; for 1 blind, how could they? It so happened one morning that an elephant 2 driven down the road where they stood begging. When they were told that the great beast was before them, they asked the driver to 3 him stop so that they might see him. Of course they could not see him with their eyes, but they thought that by touching him they could 4 just what kind of animal he was. For, you see, they trusted their own sense of touch very much. The first 5 to put his hand on the elephant’s side. “Well, he said, “now I know all about this beast. He is like a wall. The second felt about the elephant’s tusk. “My brother, he said, “you are quite mistaken. He is not at all like a wall. He is round and smooth and sharp. He is 6 like a spear than anything else. The third happened to 7 the elephant’s trunk. “Both of you are entirely wrong, he said. “Anybody who knows anything can see that this elephant is like a snake. The fourth 8 his arms, and grasped one of the elephant’s legs. “Oh, how blind you are! he said. “It is very 9 to me that he is round and tall like a tree. The fifth, being a very tall man, happened to take hold of the elephant’s ear. “The blindest man ought to know that this elephant is not like any of the things you 10 , he said. “He is exactly like a huge fan. The sixth was very blind indeed, and it was some time 11 he could find the elephant at all. At last he got hold of the elephant’s tail. “Oh, silly fellows! he said. “You surely have lost your 12 . The elephant is not like a wall, or a spear, or a snake, or a tree; neither is he like a fan. But any man with a little sense can see that he is 13 like a rope. Then the driver and the elephant moved on, and the six men sat by the roadside all day quarrelling about the elephant. Each believed that he knew just what the beast 14 ; and they called each other names because they could not agree. It is not just blind men who make such silly mistakes. People who have eyes sometimes act just 15 foolishly when they take a one-sided view of things.

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