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One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! 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 picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries.

    The father and the son walked on. 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 on. 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, his son lost some 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 had bent (弯身)down earlier 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 anyone who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.

1.Who picked up the horseshoe at last?

   A. Thomas.    B. The old father.

   C. Both the father and the son.    D. Nobody

2.When the son refused to pick up the horseshoe, the father _______.

   A. felt very happy   B. didn't say anything

   C. beat the son      D. became a little angry

3.The farmer bought _______ with the money after he sold the horseshoe.

   A. some food        B. some water

   C. some cherries      D. some pennies

4.The father dropped the cherries one by one, because _______.

   A. he wanted his son to eat them all

   B. he wanted his son to do more exercise

   C. he wanted to teach his son a lesson

   D. he wanted his son to pick them up

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 the boy wants to eat cherries, he must pick up the horseshoe

   D. if we want to do some great things, we should start with some small ones

Answer

1.B

2.B

3.C

4.C

5.D

【解析】

1.根据His father said nothing but picked it up himself.可知是他父亲自己拾起了马蹄铁，故选B。

2. 根据His father said nothing but picked it up himself.可知他父亲什么都没说，故选B。

3.There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries.可知他父亲卖了马蹄铁用这些钱买了些樱桃，故选 C。

4.根据When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him,可知他父亲这样做的目的就是为了给儿子讲一个人生道理，故选C

5.通过文中 父亲的谈话可知，选D，如果我们想做大事，就要从小事开始。故选D。

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