50.A. valuable B.
expensive C.
worth D.
rich
B
We were standing at the
top of a church tower. My father had ___1___ me to this spot in a small Italian
town far from home in Rome. I __2____
why.
“ Look __3____, Elsa,”
father said. I ___4____ all my
courage and looked down. I saw the square in the center of the town. And I saw
many streets around the square.
“ See, my dear, “
father said gently. “There is more than one way to the square. ___5___ is like
that. If you can’t get to the ____6____ where you want to go by one road, ____7___
another.”
“ Now I understood why
I was there. ____8___ that day I had begged my mother to do ___9__ about the
lunch that was ____10____ at school. But she refused _____11___ she couldn’t
believe the lunch was as bad as I said.
When I turned to
father __12____ help, he would not interfere. ____13_____, he brought me to
this tower to ___14___ a lesson ------ the value of an open, searching mind. By
the time we reached home, I ___15___ a plan.
At school the next day,
I secretly ____16___ my lunch soup into a bottle and brought it home. Then I
___17____ the cook to serve it to mother at dinner. The plan ___18_____
perfectly. She had one spoonful and said, “The ____19____ must have gone mad!”
Quickly I told what I had done and mother said firmly that she ___20___ take up
the matter of lunch at school the next day.