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Hedley Kow. Sometimes it looked like an ordinary object. Sometimes it looked like a donkey or a goat.
One evening, as an old woman went along the path, she saw an old iron pot lying in the ditch. "Fancy
that," she said. "Nobody seems to want this old pot. I will take it home and plant pretty flowers in it."
When she tried to lift it, she saw that it was full of gold pieces. "Well, now, if that doesn"t beat all," she
said. "I"m rich! I can buy a fine house and fancy clothes."
The pot was heavy, so she tied her shawl around it and began to drag it home. After a while, she
stopped to rest. When she looked in the pot, she was amazed to see that it was full of silver pieces!
"Oh, my God!" she said. "Aren"t I the lucky one! If it were gold, thieves would have been after me. My friends might have been jealous. But I can hide these silver pieces, take out a few at a time, and live like a queen."
On she went, pulling the pot after her. She was nearing home now. At her gate, she looked into the pot. What a surprise! The silver had changed into a lump (块) of iron. "Iron," she said. "Well, now! No one will be jealous or want to steal this from me. I can use this iron to prop my door open and let in fresh air and
sunlight. Lucky me!"
As soon as she said that, the pot began to grow and later it became a goat. Then it jumped up and ran off down the road laughing.
"Fancy that!" said the old woman. "I believe I have seen the Hedley Kow! Not many folks can say that, and that"s a fact. I"ll just sit up by my fire tonight thinking about how lucky I was to see it for myself. I truly must be the luckiest person in the world!"
B. The early bird catches the worm.
C. Content is better than riches.
D. All bad luck goes away.
B. Honor.
C. Misfortune.
D. Luck.
B. pessimistic
C. strange
D. mindless
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When I was six years old, I was visiting my grandfather"s farm in Kansas. Grandpa had sent me into
the 1 to gather pecans for us to enjoy later.
Pecan picking was really 2 work and my little basket was only half full. I wasn"t about to 3
Grandpa down. Just then something caught my 4 . A large brown squirrel was a few feet away. I
watched as he picked up a pecan, hurried to a tree and 5 in a large hole in the trunk. A moment
later the squirrel 6 out and climbed down to the ground to pick up another nut. Once again, he
took the pecan back to his hiding place.
Not so 7 anymore, I thought. I dashed over to the tree and looked into the hole. It was 8
with pecans! Golden pecans were right there for taking. This was my 9 . Handful by handful, I
scooped all of those pecans into my basket. Now it was full! I was so 10 of myself. I couldn"t wait
to show Grandpa all the pecans. 11 , I ran back and shouted, "Look at all the pecans!" He looked
into the basket and said, "Well, well, how did you find so many?" I told him how I"d 12 the squirrel
and taken the pecans from his hiding place.
Grandpa congratulated me on how smart I"d been in observing the squirrel and his habits. Then he
did something that 13 me. He handed the basket back to me and put his arm gently 14 my
shoulders.
"That squirrel worked very hard to gather his winter 15 of food," he said. "Now that all of his
pecans are gone, don"t you think that little squirrel will 16 the cold winter?"
"I didn"t think about that," I said.
"I know," Grandpa said. "But a good man should never take 17 of someone else"s hard work."
Suddenly I felt a bit 18 . The image of the starving squirrel wouldn"t 19 my mind. There was
only one thing I could do. I carried the basket back to the tree and poured all the nuts into the hole.
I didn"t eat any pecans that night, but I had something much more filling-the 20 of knowing I had
done just the right thing.
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| "Today is the day I start the big diet (节食)," I told my wife as I raised my hand and 1 , "No chocolate today!" "Oh, has the hospital gift shop 2 selling it?" she asked. "No," I said. "I"ll just have to __3__ my strong determination." But when I arrived at the hospital, my little friend Benton had been there _4_. I knew my promise would 5 disappear. Because if Benton had things his way, I"d always be eating a piece of candy from the 6 bag he often shared with me. Benton was an eightyearold boy who was 7 because of a kind of cancer, which caused him to live in the darkness, when he was fifteen 8 old. For the next twentysix months, he was in and out of our hospital. For nearly four years, it seemed 9 Benton could beat the disease, until one Friday afternoon in April 2009, when he 10 a headache and lost 11 on his right side. His mom 12 him to the hospital. Over the next several months, Benton came to our 13 many more times. Each time he came, we 14 say hello, while Benton answered the 15 by holding out a candy from his bag. So, on that first day of my diet, I went to his room and found Benton lying in his bed, his eyes 16 but not looking into this world. "We brought his candy bag with us. Would you like to have some?" his mother asked. Without thinking of my diet, I 17 into the bag and pulled out the first piece my fingers touched. It was my favorite as if Benton had saved one last piece 18 me. At home that evening, I answered a phone about Benton"s 19 . As I 20 it up, I opened the candy and ate it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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