One day, a hare (野兔) and a tortoise (乌龟) decided to have a race to see who was faster than the other. They agreed that the one who first got to the bid tree in the distance was the winner. So they started at the same time.
The hare thought, “My legs are much longer than the tortoise’s. I’m sure to be the winner.” Of course the tortoise was much slower than the hare, but he never gave up and kept moving forward as fast as he could.
As the hare ran a few kilometers, he found the tortoise far behind him.
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2 . Long, long ago there were a lot of donkeys. The donkeys worked hard every day. They had no time to play or to relax, but they never felt appreciated (赏识) for the work they did.
One day two donkeys got bored. They wanted to live a comfortable life, so the donkeys went to see a wise old man. They told him their problem. The wise old man agreed that they worked too hard, and he wanted to help the donkeys. “I have an idea,” he said.
“What is your idea?” asked the donkeys.
“I will paint you and no one will know you are donkeys,” said the man.
The man went off to find some paint and he returned in just a few minutes. He had two pots of paint. One pot was filled with white paint, and the other black paint.
The old man first painted them white, and then painted black stripes (条纹) over the white paint. When he finished, the donkeys did not look like donkeys at all. “You no longer look like donkeys,” the old man said. “Everyone will be fooled. I will call you something else, Zebras (斑马).”
The zebras went to a field to eat grass. Now they did not have to work.
Soon, other donkeys saw the zebras. They asked the zebras where they came from. When the zebras told the donkeys their secret, the donkeys all rushed to see the old man.
“Please make us into zebras, too.” They pleaded (恳求). So the wise old man painted more donkeys. As he did, more and more donkeys came.
The old man could not paint fast enough. Soon the donkeys became impatient. They began to kick about, and they knocked over the paint pots.
There was no more paint. The painted donkeys ran off to become zebras. The unpainted donkeys, because of their impatience (不耐烦), had to return to work.
This is why it is important to be patient.
1. The two donkeys went to see a wise old man in order to ________| A．tell him their problems. | B．ask him for help. |
| C．change into zebras. | D．get some grass. |
| A．Because they didn’t eat enough grass. |
| B．Because they didn’t want to work. |
| C．Because no one knew they were donkeys. |
| D．Because they were no longer donkeys. |
| A．no more paint was left. | B．all the paint was used up |
| C．they couldn’t wait any longer | D．he was too tired to paint |
One day Miss Brown said something that hurt her best friend for many years. She was very upset about
The wiser said, “Calm
Miss Brown went home
“I'm afraid that it's impossible! So far, each feather
Then the wiser said, “Each of your words is like a feather in the wind. Once
Once upon the time, there was a farmer whom worked very hard in his field every day. One day, while he is working in the field, a rabbit ran out of the grass but bumped into a tree stump, dead. The farmer was very happily to take the rabbit home and cook a delicious meals. The farmer thought, “I needn’t work hard from now on. What I need to do is just to wait the rabbit bumping into the tree stump and pick them home.” Since then, he no longer worked, just sat next to the tree stump and waiting for the rabbit. But from then on, he never saw another rabbit was bumped into the tree stump.
Once there were two mice, a city mouse and a country mouse. They were distant relatives. One day the city mouse,
Delighted, the country mouse accepted the
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It was said that there is a poor countryman, who had nothing but a adult goose. One morning the man went to his goose’s nest, and lucky he saw a yellow and glittering egg there. He took the eggs home. In his delight, he found that it was an egg of pure gold. Every morning the same thing was occurred, and he soon became rich by sell his eggs. The countryman became more and more greedy. He wanted get all the gold at once, so he killed the goose. Therefore, when he looked inside, he found nothing in it’s body.
For example, consider this story about a group of
The two frogs didn’t obey what other frogs said and tried to
When he
| A．think | B．experience | C．seem | D．feel |
| A．so | B．just | C．even | D．ever |
| A．processes | B．times | C．courses | D．practices |
| A．frogs | B．mice | C．dogs | D．cats |
| A．two | B．three | C．many | D．few |
| A．hole | B．pit | C．water | D．well |
| A．muddy | B．wide | C．deep | D．long |
| A．uncomfortable | B．unpleasant | C．unhappy | D．unfortunate |
| A．run | B．walk | C．climb | D．jump |
| A．so | B．as long as | C．because | D．although |
| A．gave out | B．gave up | C．gave away | D．gave off |
| A．died | B．wounded | C．destroyed | D．damaged |
| A．fast | B．hard | C．easily | D．swiftly |
| A．help | B．ban | C．forbid | D．stop |
| A．cried | B．spoke | C．shouted | D．read |
| A．get it | B．forget it | C．use it | D．made it |
| A．turned out | B．kept out | C．got out | D．held out |
| A．taking to | B．shouting at | C．throwing at | D．speaking to |
| A．explained | B．announced | C．introduced | D．told |
| A．encouraging | B．helping | C．pulling | D．dragging |
8 . One day an ant was drinking at a small stream and fell in. She made desperate (拼死的) efforts to reach the side, but made no progress at all. The poor ant almost exhausted (精疲力竭的) was still bravely doing her best when a dove saw her. Moved with pity, the bird threw her a blade of grass, which supported her like a raft, and thus the ant reached the bank again. While she was resting and drying herself in the grass, she heard a man come near. He was walking along barefooted with a gun in his hand. As soon as he saw the dove, he wished to kill it. He would certainly have done so, but the ant bit him in the foot just as he raised his gun to fire. He stopped to see what had bit him, and the dove immediately flew away. It was an animal much weaker and smaller than herself that had saved her life.
1. The ant could not reach the side though _______.| A．she cried for help |
| B．she asked the dove to save her |
| C．she tried very hard |
| D．she could smell well |
| A．she was the ant's friend |
| B．she took pity on the poor ant |
| C．the ant was almost exhausted |
| D．the ant had been struggled in the water for a long time |
| A．a leaf | B．a piece of wood |
| C．a blade of grass | D．a raft |
| A．the dove immediately flew away |
| B．the dove hid himself in the grass |
| C．the ant told the dove to leave at once |
| D．he felt something biting him in the foot |
| A．how clever the ant was |
| B．how kind the dove was |
| C．how the ant and the dove helped each other |
| D．we often need help from others, therefore we should help others as much as we can |
