Mr. Flower was well-known around for growing the best flowers of the year and his four glass-houses were taken good care of. These glass-houses were close to a public path, which was always used
___36__ children and young people walking to and from
__37__. Boys of about thirteen years of age, especially, were often tempted（嘗試） to throw a stone or two at one of Mr. Flower’s
__38__ . They managed to resist the temptation(抵制誘惑) when Mr. Flower was around, but the temptation often seemed to be too
__39__ when Mr. Flower was
__40__ to be seen. For this reason, Mr. Flower did his best to be
__41__ his glass-houses at the beginning and end of the school days.
However, it was not always possible for him to be on guard at these times. Mr. Flower had tried
__42__ to prevent（阻止） the damage to his glass; but nothing that he had done had been
__43__. He had been to the school to complain(抱怨) to the headmaster, but this had not done any
__44__. He had hidden in the bushes（灌木叢） and
__45__ those boys that threw stones
__46__ his garden, but the boys could run
__47__ faster than he, and they even
__48__ at him at a distance（距離）. He had even walked along the path and picked up all those
__49__that he could find so that the boys would have nothing to
__50__, but they soon found others, or threw lumps of earth instead.
Then just as he had given
__51__ hope of winning the battle（戰(zhàn)斗）, a truly wonderful
__52__ came up to him. He set up a large notice board made of good strong wood, some meters away from the glass-houses
__53__ it could be clearly seen from the path. On the board he painted the
__54__ : DO NOT THROW AT THIS NOTICE. After this, Mr. Flower had no
__55__ .The boys were much more tempted to throw stones at the notice board than at the glass-houses.
| 【小題2】 | | A．factory | B．office | C．school | D．work |
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| 【小題3】 | | A．bed-rooms | B．living-room | C．reading-room | D．glass-houses |
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| 【小題4】 | | A．strong | B．weak | C．limited | D．strange |
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| 【小題5】 | | A．impossible | B．unable | C．possible | D．somewhere |
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| 【小題6】 | | A．far away from | B．in or close to | C．into or out of | D．a(chǎn)t or out |
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| 【小題7】 | | A．in no way | B．in a way | C．in the way | D．in many ways |
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| 【小題8】 | | A．successful | B．cheerful | C．wonderful | D．careful |
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| 【小題9】 | | A．harm | B．wrong | C．good | D．wonder |
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| 【小題10】 | | A．watched | B．walked to | C．waited for | D．run after |
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| 【小題11】 | | A．towards | B．over | C．out of | D．into |
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| 【小題12】 | | A．many | B．much | C．more | D．lots of |
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| 【小題13】 | | A．laughed | B．looked | C．called | D．surprised |
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| 【小題14】 | | A．earth | B．sticks | C．stones | D．branches |
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| 【小題15】 | | A．pick up | B．catch | C．play with | D．throw |
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| 【小題17】 | | A．idea | B．friend | C．guest | D．word |
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| 【小題18】 | | A．where | B．there where | C．on which | D．there |
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| 【小題19】 | | A．a(chǎn)nnouncement | B．words | C．sentences | D．message |
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| 【小題20】 | | A．peaceful times | B．further trouble | C．more happiness | D．questions |
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