文章大意:本文讲述了一个叫Johnny的蜥蜴在意外断尾后,踏上了漫漫的寻找尾巴的旅程,最后在一个男孩的提示下才发现自己已经重新长出来更好的尾巴,从而领悟到:不要沉湎于过去,把时间浪费在无用的东西上面,要面向未来。
【推荐1】Johnny, a lizard (蜥蜴), lived between some rocks in the country, where he liked sunbathing every morning. One day, he felt so ____ that he didn’t notice some boys coming up behind him. The boys caught Johnny, and he could only escape from their hands by losing his ____ and running to hide.
The children watched his tail moving about, but they soon threw the tail away and left. Johnny came out to ____ his tail, but could find no ____ of it. Feeling so sad, he decided to ____ doing everything else in his life and spending all his time finding his tail. Days and months passed, and Johnny kept looking, asking everyone ____ they had seen his tail. However, there was ____ no news about it.
One day, he asked a boy and the boy ____ replied, “Why do you need two tails?” After hearing this, Johnny turned back and saw that he had grown a new, stronger tail. He suddenly realised how ____ it had been to waste so much time on a problem like it. Johnny headed for home.
____, he suddenly found his old tail on the roadside. Although it ____ terrible, Johnny was still excited to have it back. He picked it up and was about to ____ his journey. Just at that moment, an idea hit him that he shouldn’t look at the past and worry about it since it was not useful for ____.
He then decided to ____ his old tail there, leaving with it all his past worries. As he continued his journey, all he took with him were thoughts of the present and the dreams of the ____.
As we know, it’s not good to look at the past, unless it helps in the future. Let the past go with the wind.
1. A.interested | B.relaxed | C.lonely | D.nervous |
2. 3. A.look at | B.look after | C.look up | D.look for |
4. A.need | B.sign | C.reason | D.use |
5. A.keep | B.finish | C.begin | D.stop |
6. A.whether | B.that | C.how | D.why |
7. A.only | B.still | C.also | D.always |
8. A.hopefully | B.generally | C.surprisedly | D.wonderfully |
9. A.lucky | B.hard | C.careless | D.silly |
10. A.In a way | B.By the way | C.On the way | D.In the way |
11. A.sounded | B.looked | C.smelled | D.tasted |
12. A.change | B.continue | C.plan | D.end |
13. 14. A.return | B.cut | C.move | D.drop |
15. A.tail | B.present | C.future | D.past |