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     When Mencius (孟子) was a little boy, his father died. Mencius and his mother were quite poor. One day
Mencius returned home from school and found his mother making some cloth. It was very beautiful and
expensive.
      "How much of the book have you read today?" Mencius' mother asked him. "I haven't read any of it yet."
Mencius replied, "I played with some friends of mine in the fields." 
     When his mother heard this, she picked up a pair of scissors and cut the cloth. 
     "Why have you cut your cloth?" Mencius asked, "It was so beautiful but now you've wasted (浪费) it." "You
have wasted your time," his mother said, "now I have wasted mine. Look at the terrible things we have done."
     Mencius learnt a lot from this lesson. After that, he always studied hard.
1. When did this story happen?
[     ]
A. Not long before liberation (解放).
B. More than 2000 years ago.
C. About 400 years ago.
D. In the 18th century.
2. What was Mencius doing while his mother was cutting the cloth?
[     ]
A. He was reading his book.
B. He was playing in the fields.
C. He was trying to help her.
D. He was watching strangely.
3. The mother cut the cloth because _______.
[     ]
A. she thought making cloth was wasting time
B. she wanted to give her son a lesson
C. she wanted to use more beautiful and expensive cloth
D. she wanted her son to do his lessons at once
4. Mencius and his mother were quite poor because ___________________.
5. When the mother knew Mencius had not read any books, she felt s__________________.

Have you ever felt life is bad? Do you find that life seems to make things difficult for you and everything seems to go wrong? I sometimes felt that way,but a friend changed me.

He told me that although he didn't have enough money,he was happy.I asked why he was happy.Then he told me what he saw in India.

A few years ago,he was really feeling sad and went to India.He saw an Indian mother cut off her child's right hand with a knife.After that he could never forget the sad eyes of the helpless mother and the child.The reason why the mother did that was to beg.The mother did this so that the child could go out on the streets to beg and get some food to eat.

Then he began to think about how happy he was.He had food to eat,a complete body,a job,a family,the chance to say that some food wasn't delicious,and many things that the mother and the child in front of him never dreamed of having.

After hearing his story,I began to think about it,too.Was my life real1y that bad? Perhaps it wasn't.It wasn't bad at all.

What about you? Next time you think that your life is bad,think about the child who lost one hand so that he could beg on the streets.

1.The writer begins the article with two questions in order to _________.

A.show the readers he knows a lot                  B.stress his opinion

C.attract the readers' interest

2.The Indian mother was _________ when she was cutting off her child's hand.

A.angry                         B.sad                      C.crazy

3.The underlined part “to beg” means _________.

A.to ask others for food                                 B.to tell others he’s sorry

C.to say he's unable to do anything

4.The writer's friend _________ after he saw what the Indian's life was like.

A.felt very sad and angry                                B.came to believe he was lucky

C.started to feel he was helpless

5.The underlined sentence in the end of the passage tells us _________.

A.how to feel good when upset                       B.how to help the poor when possible

C.how to keep a balance between rich and poor

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