An old woman was playing a good game of bridge with her friends one evening. “Oh, no! I have to rush home and make dinner for my husband! He’s going to be really angry if it’s not ready on time!” she said suddenly.
Arriving home, she realized that she had no enough time to shop, and all she had in the cupboard(碗橱) was a lettuce leaf, an egg, and a can of cat food. In a hurry, she opened the can, mixed in the egg, and put the lettuce leaf on it just as her husband came in.
She watched nervously as her husband sat down to his dinner. To her surprise, her husband really enjoyed his dinner. “Dear, this is the best dinner you have made for me in forty years of marriage.”
So every bridge night from then on, the woman made her husband the same dish. She told her bridge friends about it and they were all terrified.
“You’re going to kill him!” they shouted.
Two months later, her husband died.
The women were playing bridge when one of the friends said, “You killed him! We told you that feeding him that cat food every week would do him in! How can you just sit there so calmly and play bridge knowing you murdered(谋杀) your husband?”
The wife calmly replied, “I didn’t kill him. He fell off a tree while trying to catch a bird.”
49. The old woman liked to ________.
A.play bridge game | B.eat with her friends |
C.make dinner for her husband | D.eat cat food |
50. What dinner did the old woman make for her husband that evening?
A.She cooked a bird from a tree. |
B.She took him to a restaurant for a dinner. |
C.She went shopping and bought lots of things. |
D.She mixed the cat food and an egg and put a lettuce leaf on it. |
51. Her husband ________ after eating the dinner.
A.played bridge game too | B.was pleased with her |
C.washed the dishes | D.asked her to stop playing bridge |
52. Why did the old woman’s husband die?
A.He fell off a tree. | B.He ate too much cat food. |
C.She murdered him. | D.Her friends murdered him. |