Question

An old woman lost her only son. The sad woman went to a clever man and asked, “Is there any way I can throw away my ______ ?”

The clever man said to her, “Go and bring ____ a seed (種子) from a home that

has never known sadness. I will ______ it to drive the sadness out of your life.” The woman went off at once to look _____ that magical seed.

First, she came to a beautiful house, knocked at the door, and asked ____ , “Excuse me, I am looking for a home that has never known sadness. Is this such a place? It is very important to me.”

They told her, “You’ve certainly come to the _____ place,” and began to describe all the sad things that had recently happened to them.

The woman said to herself, “Who is able to ____ these people that have had such sadness like me?” She stayed to cheer them up _____ she went on looking for a home that had never known sadness.

But wherever she went, whether in the homes of the poor or the rich, she found one sad ___ after another. She became so busy helping other people that she ____about looking for a seed that would magically end her own sadness. She even never realized that her helping others had driven the sadness out of her life.

1.A. happiness B. kindness C. sadness D. illness

2.A. me B. you C. her D. him

3.A. push B. use C. lend D. lose

4.A. at B. up C. for D. after

5.A. politely B. happily C. proudly D. angrily

6.A. right B. wrong C. clean D. dirty

7.A. catch B. order C. hide D. help

8.A. before B. after C. when D. while

9.A. man B. woman C. story D. trip

10.A. knew B. worried C. thought D. forgot

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