4 . Once upon a time, there was a shepherd (牧羊人). He _________ dozens of sheep. He tended (照料) the sheep in the daytime, and kept them in the sheepfold (羊圈) at night.
One morning, the shepherd found that one sheep was _________. His neighbor helped him check the sheepfold. “There is a hole in the wall of your sheepfold. A wolf went in through the hole, and took the sheep away at night. You should _________ the sheepfold quickly and fill up the hole,” the neighbor said.
However, the shepherd was _________ to the neighbor’s advice. He replied, “I have already lost the sheep. It is no _________ repairing the sheepfold.” The next morning, the shepherd found that another sheep was gone.
The neighbor said, “If you had _________ my advice, you wouldn’t have made the same mistake. Aren’t you going to take action right now?”
The shepherd filled up the hole _________ at once. After that, _________ of his sheep was taken away by the wolf.
If there is a mistake, we should _________ it as soon as possible. In this way, we can avoid more __________.
1. A.raised | B.produced | C.searched | D.hired |
2. A.sick | B.thirsty | C.sleepy | D.missing |
3. A.mend | B.check | C.block | D.tidy |
4. A.married | B.deaf | C.used | D.thankful |
5. A.good | B.excuse | C.use | D.doubt |
6. A.received | B.followed | C.ignored | D.heard |
7. A.immediately | B.carefully | C.hopelessly | D.hardly |
8. A.neither | B.any | C.each | D.none |
9. A.make | B.save | C.correct | D.recover |
10. A.efforts | B.wastes | C.chances | D.losses |