【推荐1】Little George lived in a poor village with his mother. One summer day, he ________ to pick up some dry wood for the fire by his mother.
George looked for it very hard. By noon, he felt very hot and hoped ________ a cool place to rest and have some food. As he walked along, he found some shade(阴凉处) and some fine, wild strawberries next to it.
He picked up all the strawberries ________. As he was lifting the first strawberry to his mouth, he remembered his sick mother. He wanted to save some for her, because he knew ________ she loved strawberries so much.
“I will eat half, and save the other half for her,” he thought. Then he divided them into two ________. However, each half looked so ________. He put them together again.
“I will only eat one,” he thought. However, as he again lifted one to his mouth, he saw that he had taken ________ finest one, and he put it back.
He felt happy that he had saved all the strawberries for his mother. ________ he came home, he heard his mother calling him in a weak voice. George ran to ________ mother and happily offered the wild strawberries to her.
“You saved them for me, didn’t you?” said she, with tears of joy ________ her eyes.
Could eating the strawberries have given George half the happiness he felt at this moment?
1. A.asked | B.was asked | C.is asked |
2. A.to find | B.finding | C.found |
3. A.happy | B.happily | C.happiness |
4. 5. 6. A.small | B.smaller | C.smallest |
7. 8. A.Although | B.When | C.Because |
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