1 . Once there was a farmer with a wife and two sons. He became quite________through hardworking. He wanted his children to have a(n)________life, so he and his wife did all the work and________made them do anything.
After some time, his wife died and________he didn’t want his children to________, so he did the field labor and all the housework. But as time went on, he became old and________, and started to worry about his________when he died.
So he thought about this for a long time and he________his sons and said, “Look, my inheritance (遗产) to you is a lot of gold. I’ve________all my gold in the fields, so it’s up to you to plough (耕作) them and________the gold.”
And he called his neighbors and said, “I’m going to________and my children don’t know how to________themselves. So please cook for them until they can take care of themselves.”
So the neighbors provided them with________for some time.
Certainly the brothers didn’t want to be robbed of the________so they did the digging themselves. They________one field after another and after they had dug all the fields, they found no gold.
So the brothers sat down and one________the other, “Do you think our father________us?”
But the other brother said, “No, I think our father was saying that the________is a golden profession. And if we dig up all the________we can become rich.”
So like all the other________, they sowed wheat in the fields they had dug and became very rich in the end.
1. A.rich | B.strong | C.clever | D.busy |
2. A.hard | B.easy | C.different | D.ordinary |
3. A.always | B.often | C.never | D.sometimes |
4. A.also | B.thus | C.ever | D.still |
5. A.work | B.move | C.study | D.play |
6. A.healthy | B.sick | C.foolish | D.wise |
7. A.brothers | B.friends | C.children | D.relatives |
8. A.showed | B.taught | C.visited | D.called |
9. A.lost | B.hidden | C.planted | D.put |
10. A.harvest | B.find | C.buy | D.use |
11. A.leave | B.travel | C.die | D.disappear |
12. A.look at | B.look out | C.look after | D.look for |
13. A.relief | B.money | C.water | D.food |
14. A.gold | B.silver | C.oil | D.coal |
15. A.dug | B.piled | C.operated | D.searched |
16. A.advised | B.asked | C.followed | D.doubted |
17. A.loved | B.cared | C.understood | D.cheated |
18. A.gardening | B.fishing | C.building | D.farming |
19. A.roots | B.stones | C.fields | D.pipes |
20. A.farmers | B.workers | C.fishers | D.builders |