One morning, when I was leaving for my business, a middle-aged man came up and asked me for help. He said he had no
__________to get food for his large family.
“You look
__________. Why don’t you work?” I asked. “ Simply because I cannot get work,sir. ” “If I give you work, what you want?” “As long as I can get bread for my family, sir. ” he
_________.
I decided to find out if he really meant what he said. "OK. I'll give you one pound an hour, if you will
__________a brick under your arm and walk around the square for five hours without stopping. “Thank you, sir. I will. ”
I found a brick and started him on his walk before I went to my
__________. I never thought he would do what he had promised(承诺).
When I came back five hours later, I saw him
__________walking, with the brick under his arm. I stopped him and gave him
__________pounds. He thanked me and told me that some people had
__________to help him when they knew why he was doing all this. He would go and ask them for work. Before leaving, he asked if I would give him the brick. I did.
Several years later, a well-dressed man greeted me on a train. Seeing I was not sure who he was, he explained that he was the brick man and had his own business now. “You know, I still keep that brick and always value it as the most
__________thing I have as it has brought me good luck and success.”
_________, it was not the brick that made the man successful, but his faithfulness(坚定) in doing even a very little thing.
16. A.place | B.money | C.plan | D.time |
17. A.funny | B.sick | C.serious | D.strong |
18. A.answered | B.asked | C.spoke | D.told |
19. A.break | B.carry | C.fix | D.hide |
20. A.business | B.lesson | C.programme | D.research |
21. A.also | B.already | C.even | D.still |
22. 23. A.continued | B.forgotten | C.offered | D.refused |
24. A.beautiful | B.expensive | C.important | D.interesting |
25. A.As a result | B.At last | C.In a word | D.In fact |