【推荐2】One morning, when I was leaving for my business, a middle-aged man came up and asked me for help. He said he had no
__________to get food for his large family.
“You look
__________. Why don’t you work？” I asked. “ Simply because I cannot get work，sir. ” “If I give you work, what you want?” “As long as I can get bread for my family, sir. ” he
_________.
I decided to find out if he really meant what he said. "OK. I'll give you one pound an hour, if you will
__________a brick under your arm and walk around the square for five hours without stopping. “Thank you, sir. I will. ”
I found a brick and started him on his walk before I went to my
__________. I never thought he would do what he had promised(承诺).
When I came back five hours later, I saw him
__________walking, with the brick under his arm. I stopped him and gave him
__________pounds. He thanked me and told me that some people had
__________to help him when they knew why he was doing all this. He would go and ask them for work. Before leaving, he asked if I would give him the brick. I did.
Several years later, a well-dressed man greeted me on a train. Seeing I was not sure who he was, he explained that he was the brick man and had his own business now. “You know, I still keep that brick and always value it as the most
__________thing I have as it has brought me good luck and success.”
_________, it was not the brick that made the man successful, but his faithfulness(坚定) in doing even a very little thing.
1. | A．place | B．money | C．plan | D．time |
2. | A．funny | B．sick | C．serious | D．strong |
3. | A．answered | B．asked | C．spoke | D．told |
4. | A．break | B．carry | C．fix | D．hide |
5. | A．business | B．lesson | C．programme | D．research |
6. | A．also | B．already | C．even | D．still |
7. 8. | A．continued | B．forgotten | C．offered | D．refused |
9. | A．beautiful | B．expensive | C．important | D．interesting |
10. | A．As a result | B．At last | C．In a word | D．In fact |
