A long time ago, in an Italian city, the people there built a tower which was admired by everyone passing through. A little further down the road, in a neighboring city, they had built a tower of similar beauty. The two towers were equally well known. The people of the second city, envious (妒忌的) and filled with pride, planned to destroy the neighboring tower so it wouldn’t take attention away from their own. One night, they came to the tower and began to quietly undermine its foundations(地基).
The next morning, the tower was leaning(傾斜) slightly ,but nobody noticed. The same happened for the following few days, until a little girl who was passing by pointed up at the tower and said: “ I think the tower is going to fall down.” And everyone around looked closely, and could see that she was right .Nervousness spread through the city. And they tried many methods to try to straighten the tower, but nothing seemed to work. That was, until one day when the same little girl was walking up again, and she put her arm on the side of the tower to rest. She felt the tower shaking slightly. When she took her hand off it, the movement stopped. And when she put it back on again, the same thing happened. The girl spent a while doing this, until she was completely certain of what she had discovered: “ The tower is ticklish ( 怕癢的) ！” She ran to get some plants, and she planted them right next to the tower. Now if the tower leant over any further it would be tickled by the leaves of those plants. Being a ticklish tower, it would then return to where it had been. In this way, the girl managed to make sure that the tower didn’t fall down, but still kept it leaning a little.
The fact that it was leaning made it even more famous, and this taught a fine lesson to the envious people of the neighboring city.
小題1:Why did the people of the second city plan to destroy the neighboring tower?
A．Because the tower blocked the way of their tourists.
B．Because the tower had the same building style as theirs.
C．Because they hoped that the tower could lean slightly.
D．Because they hoped that visitors just liked their own tower.
小題2:The underlined word“undermine”（in Paragraph1）probably mean “_________”．
A．test B．raiseC．damageD．strengthen
小題3:When local people heard the news that their tower was going to fall down, they were _________.
A．very anxious
B．very happy
C．very ashamed of themselves
D．a(chǎn)ngry at the people in the neighboring city
小題4:What lesson can we learn from the practice of the envious people in the neighboring city?
A．All that ends well is well.
B．Every dog has his day.
C．A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
D．A friend is never known till a man has need.

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:C

小題1:細節(jié)理解題。結(jié)合第一段的The people of the second city, envious (妒忌的) and filled with pride, planned to destroy the neighboring tower so it wouldn’t take attention away from their own可知“摧毀附近的塔的目的是為了讓游客只參觀自己的塔”。
小題2:詞義理解題。結(jié)合上文可知，他們想摧毀附近的塔，晚上來做的一定不是好事，劃線之詞應是貶義詞。
小題3:細節(jié)理解題。結(jié)合Nervousness spread through the city可知答案。
小題4:推理判斷題。那些嫉妒的人本想通過破壞附近的塔以讓自己的吸引更多的游客， 結(jié)果卻是適得其反。所以選C：惡其始者必惡其終。                           
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