Once there was a relative who offered a man a...

Once there was a relative who offered a man and his three sons two baskets of peaches(桃子). One basket of peaches were just ripe(成熟) while the other were already overripe and would go bad at once.

The father asked, “Which way of eating can avoid wasting a peach?”

The eldest son said, “Of course, we should eat those overripe, for they can’t be kept for three days.”

“But after you eat up those, the peaches in the other basket will go bad!”Certainly, the father was not satisfied with the eldest son’s advice.

The second son thought for a while and said “We should eat the peaches just ripe. Choose the good ones!”

“If so, won't the overripe peaches be wasted? Don’t you think it pity?” The father turned to the youngest son, “What good idea do you have?”

“I feel,” thinking for a while, the youngest son said, “we’d better mix them together, give some of them to the neighbors, and let them help us eat, so that we won’t waste a peach at all.”

Hearing this, the father nodded and said with a smile, “OK. It is really a good way. Then let’s do it by your way.”

1.Who offered them two baskets of peaches?

A.A boss B.A friend.

C.A relative. D.A neighbor.

2.The father asked his sons a question about how to _______.

A.avoid wasting a peach B.sell the peaches

C.eat the overripe peaches D.send the ripe peaches

3.Which was the eldest son’s idea?

A.Eating them up. B.Eating those ripe peaches first.

C.Giving some to the neighbors. D.Eating those overripe peaches first.

4.Why did the father nod and smile at last?

A.He felt sad. B.He felt worried.

C.He was satisfied. D.He was disappointed.

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There once lived a young man who was always unhappy and complained about his poverty. One day, he went to see a fortune teller to inquire how to become 16 . The fortune teller said, "Young man, you are already wealthy now."

"Where is my wealth?" the young man asked 17 .

"It is with you. Your 18  is (are) your wealth. You use them to see this world. You use them to see all the 19 things in this world. You can read, study and learn. Your hands are your wealth. You can use them to work. You can use them to hug your beloved ones. Your 20 are your wealth. You can go to any places..." the fortune teller said.

"You call these wealth? Everyone has them," the young man said.

"These are wealth. What you have now are not what others can luckily have. Are you 21 to give your eyes to me? I am willing to give you a lot of money to 22  for them," the fortune teller said.

"No, are you crazy? I am not going to exchange my eyes for money! They are 23 to me!" the young man 24 .

"Precisely, these are wealth to you. You will not exchange them for money. Furthermore, although a lot of people have their wealthy things, they do not 25  them or treasure them. They are not 26 to Heaven for giving them their wealth. They even complain that Heaven is unfair to them. Do you want to27 one of them before you will treasure them?" the fortune teller said.

Everyone is wealthy. But we should not 28 it for granted. We need to treasure our wealth, take care of it and use it 29 . We should not overuse it because once it is 30 , it is gone forever. Remember it is our wealth that we do not want to lose.

1.A. happy           B. young             C. wealthy        D. poor

2.A. anxiously B. sadly     C. quietly         D. patiently

3.A. knowledge       B. skills              C. brain           D. eyes

4.A. ugly            B. beautiful           C. strange          D. useful

5.A. legs          B. cars                 C. jewels          D. banknotes

6.A. lovely        B. optimistic             C. angry          D. willing

7.A. charge        B. buy                  C. exchange       D. change

8.A. precious       B. useless               C. extra           D. special

9.A. wept    B. demonstrated          C. smiled          D. yelled

10.A. see      B. realize               C. keep            D. hold

11.A. grateful B. careful               C. meaningful        D. faithful

12.A. get     B. grasp                C. have             D. lose

13.A. take          B. make                C. set               D. sell

14.A. wrongly  B. wisely               C. naturally          D. really

15.A. old           B. used                C. gone             D. dead

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There was once a blind man, who did a lot of traveling alone. He was making his first trip to Texas and happened to be seated next to a Texan on the flight.

The Texan spent a lot of time telling him how everything was bigger and better in Texas. After the blind man reached his destination, a large resort (度假) hotel, he was very excited about being in Texas.

The long trip had worn him out a little so he decided to stop at the bar for a small soda and a light snack before going up to his room to sleep.

When the waitress set down his drink, it was in a huge cup. “Wow, I had heard everything in Texas is bigger,” he told her.

“That’s right,” she replied. The blind man ate his snack and finished his drink. After drinking such a large amount, it was natural that his next stop was to be the restroom. He asked the waitress for directions. She told him to turn left at the corner, and then take the second door on the right.

He reached the first door and continued. A few steps later he stumbled (绊倒) slightly and missed the second door and ended up going through the third door instead. Not realizing he had entered the swimming area he walked forward and immediately fell into the swimming pool.

Remembering that everything was bigger in Texas, he had his head above water and started shouting “Don’t flush(冲洗)! Don’t flush!”

1.Why was the blind man excited about being in Texas?

2. Why did the blind man enter the swimming area?

3. Why did the blind man go to the bar?

4. Why did the blind man shout out “Don’t flush! Don’t flush!”?

5.If the passage is taken from a website, which part of the website does it belong to?

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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Once there was a man who was 1.　　　　 (tire) of living in his house. He wanted to sell it and buy a different one. He tried to sell it for a long time, 2.　　　　　 he was not 　 3.　　　 (succeed). So at last, he decided 4.　　　　 (solve) the problem by 5.　　　　　　 (use) an agent(代理人).

The agent soon put an advertisement. A few days 6.　　　　　 (late), the owner saw a very attractive photograph of the house, with a 7.　　　　　 (wonder) description of its garden in a magazine. After he read it, he at once 8.　　　　　 (telephone) the agent and said to him, “I’m sorry, sir. Thank you for your good work. But I have decided not to sell my house. Now I realize that it’s 9.　　　　　 I　 want and __10.__ I will not sell it any more.”

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Once there was a man who had two children, a boy and a girl. The boy was good-looking but the girl was not.

One day they found a mirror for the first time and they saw what they looked like. The boy was very pleased and he said to his sister, "How handsome I am! I look much nicer than you!"

The girl did not like what her brother said and gave him a hard push.

"Go away!" she said.

Their father saw what was happening. He went up to them and said to the boy,

"You must always BE good as well as LOOK good."

Then to the girl he said, "My dear, if you help everyone and do your best to please him, everyone will love you. It does not matter that you are not as good-looking as your brother."

1. Once a man had ____.

2. The boy saw what he looked like in the mirror and was pleased because he ____.

3.The girl gave the boy a hard push because ____.

4.Father told the girl that ____.

5.What can we learn from this story?

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There was once a man called Mr. Flowers, and flowers were his only joy in life. He spent all his free time in one of his four glass-houses and grew flowers of every color, with long and difficult names, for competitions. He tried to grow a rose of a new color to win the silver cup for the Rose of the Year.

Mr. Flowers’ glass-houses were very near to a middle school. Boys of around thirteen of age were often tempted (引诱) to throw a stone or two at one of Mr. Flowers’ glass-houses. So Mr. Flowers did his best to be in or near his glass-houses at the beginning and end of the school day.

But it was not always possible to be on watch at those times. Mr. Flowers had tried in many ways to protect his glass, but nothing that he had done had been useful. He had been to school to report to the headmaster; but this had not done any good. He had tried to drive away the boys that threw stones into his garden; but the boys could run faster than he could, and they laughed at him from far away. He had even picked up all the stones that he could find around his garden, so that the boys would have nothing to throw; but they soon found others.

At last Mr. Flowers had a good idea. He put up a large notice made of good, strong wood, some meters away from the glass-houses. On it he had written the words: DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE. After this, Mr. Flowers had no further trouble; the boys were much more tempted to throw stones at the notice than at the glass-houses.

1.It was Mr. Flowers’ hope to ________.

A.build glass-houses in his free time　

B.grow the Rose of the Year in a silver cup

C.win a silver cup for growing a rose of a new color

D.grow a rose with the longest name.

2.Boys were often tempted to ________.

A. throw stones at Mr. Flowers’ glass-house　

B. throw stones at Mr. Flowers from their school

C. be in or near by Mr. Flowers’ glass-houses　

D. play with Mr. Flowers near his glass-houses
3.Mr. Flowers stayed in or near by his glass-houses _______.

A. at times when school-boys were walking near them

B. all the school day when there were no boys about

C. where he could not be seen by the boys passing

D. in his free time at the beginning and end of the school day

4.Mr. Flowers had tried to ______ to protect his glass.

A. be on watch in his free time 　　　　　　　　　 B. ask the headmaster for help

C. pick up all the stones around his garden 　　　 D. do all the above

5.Mr. Flowers’ good idea was to ______.

A. write some words on the glass

B. put up a large notice to cover his glass-houses

C. give the boys something else to throw stones at

D. send for policemen

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Once upon a time, there was a poor man. His ____ was also very poor — a small and empty house, which was ____ with spider webs (蜘蛛网). People tried to ____ coming into his house as they didn’t want to come to such a ____ place. And the poor man thought that poverty (贫困) was the ____ for his unlucky life.

Then, the poor man ____ a wise man and told him about his poverty. The man felt sorry for the poor man and gave him a vase (花瓶). “This will save you from ____,” the wise man ____. The poor man took the ____ from the wise man and wanted to ____ it at first and then spend the money on drinking, as usual. Besides, why would he ____ such a beautiful thing? But then he started ____ the vase carefully and decided not to take it to the market. He brought the vase back to his ____, put it on the table and started watching it again.

“It’s not ____ for such a beautiful thing to be ____,” the poor man thought. So he ____ some flowers and put them into the vase. It became even ____. “Not good that such a beautiful thing stands next to a spider web,” the poor man ____ again.

So the poor man started ____ his house. He cleaned the dust, washed the floor and whitened the walls. And it became clear that his house wasn’t poor, ____ rather warm and comfortable. And the poor man wasn’t a poor man anymore, but a hard-working host, who had no time to think about poverty.

1.A. child　　 B. home　　 C. health　　 D. village

2.A. treated　　 B. built　　 C. filled　　 D. covered

3.A. consider　　 B. forget　　 C. enjoy　　 D. avoid

4.A. quiet　　 B. dirty　　 C. cold　　 D. wet

5.A. reason　　 B. result　　 C. problem　　 D. change

6.A. helped　　 B. thanked　　 C. met　　 D. protected

7.A. danger　　 B. death　　 C. poorness　　 D. trouble

8.A. said　　 B. shouted　　 C. cried　　 D. wrote

9.A. money　　 B. vase　　 C. table　　 D. flower

10.A. draw　　 B. study　　 C. throw　　 D. sell

11.A. bring　　 B. buy　　 C. like　　 D. need

12.A. washing　　 B. looking at　　 C. repairing　　 D. showing off

13.A. house　　 B. farm　　 C. shop　　 D. school

14.A. important　　 B. right　　 C. possible　　 D. easy

15.A. big　　 B. empty　　 C. old　　 D. safe

16.A. planted　　 B. borrowed　　 C. stole　　 D. picked

17.A. more beautiful　　 B. stranger　　 C. more expensive　　 D. stronger

18.A. expected　　 B. thought　　 C. believed　　 D. doubted

19.A. cleaning　　 B. checking　　 C. moving　　 D. choosing

20.A. or　　 B. for　　 C. but　　 D. and

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Once upon a time, there was a poor man. His _______ was also very poor — a small and empty house, which was _______ with spider webs (蜘蛛网). People tried to _______ coming into his house as they didn’t want to come to such a _______ place. And the poor man thought that poverty (贫困) was the  _______ for his unlucky life.

Then, the poor man _______ a wise man and told him about his poverty. The man felt sorry for the poor man and gave him a vase (花瓶). “This will save you from _______,” the wise man_______ . The poor man took the _______ from the wise man and wanted to sell it at first and then spend the money on drinking, as usual. Besides, why would he ________ such a beautiful thing? But then he started ________ the vase carefully and decided not to take it to the market. He brought the vase back to his house, put it on the table and started watching it again.

“It’s not ________for such a beautiful thing to be empty,” the poor man thought. So he pick some flowers and put them into the vase. It became even ________. “Not good that such a beautiful thing stands next to a spider web,” the poor man ________ again.

So the poor man started cleaning  his house. He cleaned the dust, washed the floor and whitened the walls. And it became clear that his house wasn’t poor, ________ rather warm and comfortable. And the poor man wasn’t a poor man anymore, but a hard-working host, who had no time to think about poverty.

1.A. child　　 B. home　　 C. health　　 D. village

2.A. treated　　 B. built　　 C. filled　　 D. covered

3.A. consider　　 B. forget　　 C. enjoy　　 D. avoid

4.A. quiet　　 B. dirty　　 C. cold　　 D. wet

5.A. reason　　 B. result　　 C. problem　　 D. change

6.A. helped　　 B. thanked　　 C. met　　 D. protected

7.A. danger　　 B. death　　 C. poverty　　 D. trouble

8.A. said　　 B. shouted　　 C. cried　　 D. wrote

9.A. money　　 B. vase　　 C. table　　 D. flower

10.A. bring　　 B. buy　　 C. like　　 D. need

11.A. washing　　 B. looking at　　 C. repairing　　 D. showing off

12.A. important　　 B. right　　 C. possible　　 D. easy

13.A. more beautiful　　 B. stranger　　 C. more expensive　　 D. stronger

14.A. expected　　 B. thought　　 C. believed　　 D. doubted

15.A. or　　 B. for　　 C. but　　 D. and

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A HALF - EMPTY BASKET

　　　 Once there was a poor farmer and his farm belonged to(属于) a rich man. One day he brought a basket of apples to the rich man’s house. On the doorsteps, he met two monkeys dressed like children. They jumped onto the basket to eat the apples and threw some on the ground. The farmer politely took off his hat and asked the monkeys to get off. They obeyed(服从) and the farmer went into the house. He asked to see the rich man. A servant took him to the room where the rich man was sitting.

　　　　 "I have brought you the basket of apples you asked for," he said.

　　　　 "But why have you brought a half-empty basket?" the rich man asked.

　　　　 "I met your children outside, and they stole(偷) some of the apples."

1.Why did the farmer bring apples to the rich man? Because　　　　　

A. his farm belonged to the rich man　　　　　 B. he liked the rich man

C. he was poor　　　　　　　　　　 D. the rich man’s children liked apples

2.What did the monkeys do when the farmer was on the doorsteps?

A. They jumped and jumped.　　　　　　　　　 B. They played.

C. They ate some of the apples.　　　　　　　 D. They ran away.　

3.The monkeys left the basket because　　　　　

A. they had thrown apples on the ground

B. the farmer had politely asked them to get off

C. they were afraid of the hat

D. the farmer was angry wit h them

4.How did the rich man feel when he saw the basket?　 He felt　　　　　 .

A. pleased　　　　 B. unhappy　　　 C. excited　　　 D. moved

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There was a blacksmith（铁匠） who wasn't satisfied with his work．Once he complained, “I am not well and my work is too warm．I want to be a ____1____ on the mountain．There it must be _____2____, for the wind blows and the trees give a shade．．” A wise man who had ___3____ over all things replied, “Go you, be a stone．” And he was a stone, high up on the ____4_____ side．It happened that a stone-cutter ____5____ that way for a stone and when he saw the one that had been the  ____6____, he knew that it was what he ____7_____ and he began to cut it．The stone ____8____ out, “This hurts! I no longer want to be a stone．A stone-cutter I want to be．That ____9____ be pleasant．” The wise man, humoring him, said, “Be a cutter．” ____10____ he became a stone-cutter and as he went seeking a suitable stone, he ____11____ tired and his feet were sore（酸痛）．He ____12____,” I no longer want to cut stone．I would be the sun; that would be pleasant．” The wise man ___13____, “Be the sun．” And he was the sun．But the sun was warmer than the blacksmith, than a stone, than a stone-cutter, and he complained, “I do not ____14____ this．I would be the moon．It ___15____ cool．” The wise man spoke yet again, “Be the moon．” And he was the moon．This is warmer than being the sun,” ____16___ he, “for the light from the sun ____17____on me ever．I do not want to be the moon．I would be a ___18____ again．That, indeed, is the ___19____ life．” But the wise man replied, “I am ____20____of your changing．You wanted to be the moon; the moon you are and you will remain．”

1.A．tree                         B．iron                     C．stone              D．stone-cutter

2.A．warm                     B．hot                     C．cold                   D．cool

3.A．energy                    B．force                  C．power               D．strength

4.A．river                        B．mountain            C．lake                    D．sea

5.A．went                      B．took                  C．came                 D．made

6.A．moon                     B．sun                     C．wise man            D．blacksmith

7.A．bought                    B．caught                C．sought             D．protected

8.A．cried                       B．read                   C．spoke                D．looked

9.A．would                     B．should                C．will                  D．shall

10.A．Though                B．Nevertheless        C．Thus                D．But

11.A．became                B．turned                C．grew                D．went

12.A．complained            B．suggested           C．persuaded           D．nodded

13.A．refused                B．commanded        C．mentioned           D．married

14.A．like                       B．hate                    C．want                 D．get

15.A．feels                    B．sounds               C．looks               D．smells

16.A．whispered              B．shouted            C．stated                D．declared

17.A．twinkles                B．shines                C．drops                D．falls

18.A．smith                     B．carpenter           C．woodcutter         D．stone-cutter

19.A．worst                   B．best              C．longest             D．shortest

20.A．bored                    B．fond                    C．proud              D．afraid

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