Question

There once was a boy who loved eating sweets. He ___36____ asked for sweets from his father. His father was a ____37____ man and they lived in a very old house. He could not always ___38____sweets for his son. But the little boy did not ___39___ this, and demanded sweets all the time. 

The boy’s father thought hard about ____40____ to stop the child asking for so many sweets. There was a very holy(神圣的) man living nearby at that time. The boy’s father had a(n)____41___.He  decided to take the boy to the great man who might ____42____ persuade(說服) the child to stop asking for sweets all the time. The boy and his father went along to the ____43____ man. The father said to him, “Oh, great saint, could you ask my son to stop asking for sweets which I cannot afford?” The great man was in ____44_____, because he liked sweets himself. How could he ask the boy to give up asking for sweets? The holy man told the father to ____45____ his son back after one month. 
      During that month, the holy man gave up eating sweets, and when the boy and his father ____46____after a month, the holy man said to the boy “My dear child, will you stop asking for sweets which your father cannot afford to give you?” ____47_____ , the boy stopped asking for sweets.

The boy’s ___48_____ asked the saint, “Why did’t you ask my son to give up asking for sweets ____49____ we came to you a month ago?” The saint replied, “How could I ask a boy to give up sweets when I loved sweets myself. In the last month I gave up eating sweets.”

A person’s ____50___ is much more powerful than just his words.

(   )36. A. always           B. never        C. hardly        D. seldom

(   )37. A. rich              B. honest       C. kind         D. poor

(   )38. A. make             B. accept       C. afford        D. find

(   )39. A. ignore            B. understand    C. remember     D. change

(   )40. A. what             B. where        C. why         D. how

(   )41. A. excuse            B. surprise      C. idea         D. proverb

(   )42. A. can              B. was able to    C. be able to     D. could

(   )43. A. young            B. strong        C. great        D. ugly

(   )44. A. difficulty          B. peace        C. danger       D. tears

(   )45. A. call               B. turn         C. get          D. bring

(   )46. A. returned           B. asked        C, left         D. disappeared

(   )47. A. Up to now         B. Sooner or later  C. In other words  D. From then on

(   )48. A. sister             B. brother        C. father        D. mother

(   )49. A. when             B. because       C. until         D. though

(   )50. A. success           B. history        C. future        D. example

Answer 1

36-40 ADCBD         41-45 CCCAD           46-50 ADCAD