Question

One day a farmer walking along a road with his son Thomas , the father said, “l(fā)ook! There’s a horseshoe, pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth(值得) the trouble.” His father said nothing but he picked (撿起)it up himself. When they got to nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries(櫻桃).

The father and the son continued(繼續(xù)) their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it, after a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, hid son lost no time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.

And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you bent down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that he who does not worry about the things will find that he cannot do the great things.”

1.Who picked up the horseshoe at last?

A. the son B. The father

C. both the father and the son D. Neither the father or the son

2.The farmer bought _____ with the money after he sold the horseshoe.

A. some bread B. some water

C. some cherries D. some pennies

3.When the son refused(拒絕)to pick up the horseshoe, the father___

A. beat(打) the son B. said nothing

C. felt very happy D. became very angry

4.The father dropped the cherries one by one, because_____

A. he wanted to teach his son a lesson.

B. he wanted his son to do more exercise.

C. he wanted his son to eat them all.

D. he wanted to laugh at his son.

5.From the story, we can learn that____

A. cherries are so delicious that most of us like to eat them.

B. a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us a lot of money.

C. if we want to eat cherries, we must pick up a horseshoe.

D. if we don’t worry about the little things, we cannot do the great things.

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.C

3.B

4.A

5.D

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文主要通過農(nóng)夫沿途扔櫻桃讓兒子撿的事例，教育其兒子：如果一個人對小事都不在意，那么他肯定也做不了大事。

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考點(diǎn)：故事類短文閱讀。