Once upon a time in a land far away, there was a______old man who loved everything such as:animals, spiders, insects...
One day______walking through the woods the nice old man found a cocoon(茧)of a butterfly. He______it home.
A few days later, a small______appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours______it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop______any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go_____farther.
Then the man came up to help the______ , so he took a pair of scissors and______the remaining bit of the cocoon.
The butterfly then came out______.
____it had a swollen body and small, shriveled(皱缩的) wings. The man was______ about the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would _____ and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract(收缩) in time. However, neither happened!______________, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.
It never was able to______.
What the man in his kindness and haste(轻率) did not understand was that the restricting (限制)_____ and the struggle required for the butterfly to_______ the tiny opening were Nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its________ from the cocoon.
Sometimes ______are exactly what we need in our life. If we were allowed to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as _______as what we could have been.
And we could never fly.
41. A.cold | B.kind | C.polite | D.upset |
42. A.unless | B.if | C.while | D.because |
43. A.took | B.moved | C.settled | D.based |
44. A.bag | B.skin | C.pipe | D.opening |
45. 46. A.making | B.coming | C.getting | D.suffering |
47. 48. A.bug | B.butterfly | C.animal | D.fly |
49. A.turn on | B.take part in | C.cut down | D.cut open |
50. A.calmly | B.powerfully | C.easily | D.hardly |
51. A.Gradually | B.Even | C.So | D.But |
52. A.looked | B.lasted | C.concerned | D.began |
53. A.enlarge | B.shorten | C.frighten | D.darken |
54. A.At present | B.In ruins | C.In fact | D.On purpose |
55. 56. A.wing | B.tail | C.head | D.cocoon |
57. A.go for | B.go through | C.go away | D.go into |
58. A.freedom | B.track | C.Loneliness | D.route |
59. A.struggles | B.cares | C.cracks | D.injures |
60. A.weak | B.hopeful | C.joyful | D.strong |