In a small Chinese town lived a poor young man named Liang.He loved _______. One night, an old man with a long beard _______ Liang in a dream.He gave Liang a paintbrush.
“Use this magic paintbrush to _______ the poor,” he said, “but don’t use it to help people who are _______ and greedy (贪婪的), or the skill will _______ your fingers and you will never paint again.”
When Liang woke up, he _______ the paintbrush on the table by his bed. He painted a butterfly and was _______ to see it fly off the page and out of the window.
Liang ran out of his little house and started painting things for people. He painted a buffalo (水牛) to help a farmer, food for _______ people and clothes for people who were cold.
A rich man, however, _______ about the paintbrush and asked Liang to paint some gold for him, ____________ Liang refused.
“If you don’t paint for me, I’ll cut your fingers off,” the rich man said.“Then you will ____________ paint again.” So Liang painted an island of gold in the middle of a blue ____________ .
“ ____________ will I get there?” asked the rich man.
Liang painted a ____________ for the rich man, who got in it and went on his way toward the island.
But when the rich man was halfway there, Liang painted a hole in the side of the boat.The boat sank(沉)into the water and ____________ ever saw him again.
1. A.reading | B.painting | C.writing | D.cooking |
2. A.stopped | B.saved | C.visited | D.hit |
3. A.help | B.find | C.teach | D.paint |
4. 5. A.cut | B.break | C.leave | D.improve |
6. A.left | B.found | C.lost | D.looked |
7. A.talented | B.worried | C.bored | D.surprised |
8. A.missing | B.rich | C.hungry | D.beautiful |
9. A.heard | B.worried | C.cared | D.forgot |
10. 11. A.usually | B.never | C.always | D.often |
12. A.sky | B.cloth | C.flower | D.sea |
13. 14. A.plane | B.train | C.car | D.boat |
15. A.somebody | B.everybody | C.nobody | D.anybody |