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quarreled. One of them said. "Look, how white and beautiful my hands are!" Another one said, "My hands are
more beautiful." The third one said, "Mine are the most beautiful ones." An old beggar woman came up to them.
"Beautiful ladies," she said, "I'm old and can't work, I'm hungry. Please give me something to eat."
But the three ladies gave her nothing. They only asked, "Tell me, old woman, which one of us has the most
beautiful hands?"
A peasant (农民) woman was also sitting by the river. She was poor and her hands were rough be-cause of
hard work. The old woman came up to her and said, "I'm hungry. Please give me something to eat." The peasant
woman took out her only cake she had and gave her a half.
The old woman ate it and drank some water. Then she took the peasant woman by the hand, brought her
before the rich ladies and said, "Now, I shall tell you whose hands are the most beautiful. The hands of the poor
peasant woman are rough because of work, but they give us food; they are far more beautiful than your hands
which have never done anything."
B. were rich but unkind
C. had a talk about their hands every day
D. lived by the side of the river
B. but only one of the three ladies gave her half a cake
C. because she wanted to know whose hands were beautiful
D. because she wanted to know which lady was the richest
B. but she was stronger than any of them
C. so she didn't quarrel with the three ladies
D. but she was more beautiful than any of them
_____.
B. the peasant woman gave her half a cake
C. her hands had worked hard to provide food for people
D. the three ladies didn't give her anything to eat
B. A Peasant Woman's Hands
C. The Rich Woman's Hands
D. Smooth (光滑的) Hands and Rough Hands
ladies quarreled. One of them said, "Look, how white and beautiful my hands are!" Another one said, "My
hands are more beautiful." The third one said, "Mine are the most beautiful ones." An old beggar woman
came to them. "Beautiful ladies," she said, "I'm old and can't work. I'm hungry. Please give me something
to eat."
But the three women gave her nothing. They only asked, "Tell me, old woman, who of us has the most
beautiful hands?"
A peasant woman (农妇) was also sitting by the river. She was poor and her hands were rough because
of hard work. The old woman came up to her and said, "I'm hungry. Please give me something to eat." The
peasant woman took out her only cake she had and gave her half.
The old woman ate it and drank some water. Then she took the peasant woman by the hand, brought her
before the rich ladies and said, "Now, I shall tell you whose hands are the most beautiful. The hands of the
poor peasant woman are rough because of work, but they give us food; they are far more beautiful than your
hands which have never done anything."
( )1. The three ladies had a quarrel every day.
( )2. The old woman asked for something to eat, but nobody gave anything to her.
( )3. The peasant woman's hands were not as white as the three ladies because of the hard work she had
done.
( )4. The old woman said that the peasant woman's hands were more beautiful than the three ladies'
because she liked dark hands better than white hands.
( )5. The three ladies were rich but unkind.
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