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Once upon a time, there was a blind man who lived in a small village. Although he couldn’t ________ anything, he strongly wanted to know the things around him.
One day, the man shaded ________ under a tree near his house and talked with someone near him. He did not know what the ________ looked like, so he asked an old man, “What does the sun look like?” The old man was ________ to tell him, “The shape of the sun is like a large copper disk.” He was ________ at his answer, so he went home at once and knocked on the copper plate, and he heard the sound.
On the second day, he appeared under the tree again. He heard a bell ________ a church nearby and thought it was the sun. He ________, “The sun is coming, and the sun is coming.” ________, the people around were laughing and thought he was a silly man. Later, a woman told him, “The sun shines, just like a candle.” When he got home, he touched the candle and ________ its shape. On the third day, he touched a piece of bamboo, ________ it was the sun because the shape of the bamboo is nearly the same as the candle, so he cried ________, “I touched the sun, I touched the sun.” People laughed at him again.
The sun is different from the bell and the bamboo, ________ the blind man does not know. He can’t see, so he can’t tell the real ________ between them. He has never seen the sun at all, but just asks others.
________, some people who have eyes are like blind people. They make a conclusion by listening to, others’ words and do not have a ________ understanding. Most of them will come to a wrong conclusion.
1. A.see | B.smell | C.notice | D.feel |
2. A.myself | B.himself | C.herself | D.themselves |
3. A.sun | B.tree | C.house | D.village |
4. A.sad | B.brave | C.friendly | D.unhappy |
5. A.bad | B.good | C.angry | D.surprised |
6. 7. A.sang | B.shouted | C.advised | D.answered |
8. A.Luckily | B.Finally | C.Especially | D.Immediately |
9. A.painted | B.changed | C.accepted | D.remembered |
10. A.hearing | B.agreeing | C.thinking | D.worrying |
11. A.calmly | B.politely | C.happily | D.secretly |
12. 13. A.sounds | B.differences | C.meanings | D.advantages |
14. A.In fact | B.Since then | C.At first | D.At last |
15. A.quick | B.basic | C.natural | D.correct |