1 . In a far-away place, there was a village. The village was ____ in potatoes than anywhere else in the country. At the end of every growing season, ____. potatoes were dug out of the ground, and ready for market. In each home, men and women would ____ divide the potatoes into three groups, large, medium and small.
One year, there was a young man ____ received his share of the potatoes. As the other villagers ____, he walked around the village laughing and talking. ____ the villagers thought he was lazy, and they worried that this man would never get ____ potatoes ready in time. When it was time for the villagers ____ to market, they were greatly surprised to find that the man’s potatoes ____ perfectly into three groups.
After ____ the man how he did it, they understood he was not lazy, ____ very clever. He had put all his potatoes in a cart (马车) and pulled it along the village’s rough dirt road. As the cart moved up and down over the road, the potatoes moved ____. The small potatoes moved to the bottom, the larger potatoes rose to the top and the medium potatoes rested ____ the middle.
Life ____ like this too. The rough roads we travel along can also ____ us.
1. | A．poor | B．rich | C．richer | D．richest |
2. | A．thousands of | B．a little | C．little | D．few |
3. | A．busily | B．busy | C．busier | D．more busily |
4. | A．whose | B．who | C．which | D．what |
5. | A．was working | B．were working | C．works | D．work |
6. 7. 8. | A．going | B．to go | C．went | D．gone |
9. | A．are divided | B．are dividing | C．were divided | D．divided |
10. | A．asks | B．to ask | C．asked | D．asking |
11. 12. | A．neither | B．either | C．none | D．too |
13. 14. 15. | A．to help | B．help | C．helps | D．helped |
