Hundreds of years ago in a small town, a moneylender lent a lot of money to a poor man. The moneylender , who was old and ugly,
_____ the poor man’s beautiful daughter. So he came up with an idea. He said the poor man didn’t need to return the money to him
_____ he could marry his daughter. Both the man and his daughter were
____.
The moneylender then told them that he would put a small
____ stone and a small white stone into an empty bag. The girl would have to
____ one. If she took the black stone , she would become the moneylender’s
_____ and her father’s debt (债务) would be let go. If she picked the white stone, she didn’t need to marry him and her father’s debt would
______ be let go. Her father would be put into prison if she refused to pick a stone.
As they talked, the moneylender picked up two stones. As he did that, the girl
____that he had put two black stones in the bag. He then asked the girl to pick her stone from the bag.
The girl thought for a while and then had an idea. She put her hand into the bag and took out a stone.
looking at it, she let it fall onto the path where it
became lost among all the other stones. “ Oh how
I was!” She said, “But never
. If you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to
which stone I picked.” This
tells: Sometimes we can think about things in a
way. Most difficult problems do have an solution.
小题1: | A.pleased | B.attracted | C.loved | D.saw |
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小题3: | A.bored | B.frightened | C.relaxed | D.excited |
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小题4: | A.pink | B.red | C.black | D.yellow |
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小题5: | A.show | B.damage | C.check | D.choose |
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小题6: | A.daughter | B.cousin | C.wife | D.friend |
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小题7: | A.again | B.still | C.never | D.hardly |
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小题8: | A.said | B.feared | C.thought | D.noticed |
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小题9: | A.On . | B.About | C.For | D.Without |
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小题10: | A.usually | B.surprisingly | C.immediately | D.slowly |
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小题11: | A.worried | B.clever | C.careless | D.lucky |
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小题12: | A.laugh | B.mind | C.cry | D.complain |
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小题13: | A.tell | B.explain | C.ask | D.arrange |
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小题14: | A.saying | B.story | C.news | D.man |
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小题15: | A.careful | B.funny | C.different | D.normal |
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