A young man and an old man were waiting for a bus at a station. They sat _1__ each other. “What’s that in your bag?” asked the young man, pointing to a big bag beside the ___2__.
“Money, nothing but money,” answered the old man. The young man could ___3___ believe his own ears. “What?” he said to himself in surprise. “So much money? My God! How I __4__ to be able to get so much money!” Then he began to think about how to get the money.
The old man ___5__ tired and it seemed that he could hardly keep his eyes open. “Are you tired, sir?” asked the young man.  “Then you’d better lie down on the ___6____ and have a good rest.  Don’t worry about ___7___. I’ll wake you up in time. ”
“All right . It’s very kind of you, young man. ” The old man lay down and ___8___ he fell asleep.
The young man took the big bag gently. ___9___ when he was just going to run away , he found a corner of his fur coat (皮衣) was ___10___ the old man’s body . Several times he tried to pull it out, but he couldn’t. At last he took off his ____11____ and went away with the bag.
The young man ran out of the station as quickly as his ___12___ could carry him, he reached a place, and there he thought the old man couldn’t ___13___ him, he stopped and quickly opened the bag.
To his surprise, there was ___14___ but old newspapers in it. He hurried to the station at once. But when he got there, he found the old man was ___15____

A young father was visiting an old man．They were standing in the old man's garden and  1   children．The young man said, How strict (严格) should parents be with  2  children?" The old man pointed to a line (绳子)  3  a big, strong tree and a thin,  4  one．"Please untie (解开) the line," he said．The young man untied it, and the young tree bent (弯曲) over to  5  side．

"Now tie it again．" said the old man．"But first pull the line tight (紧) so that the young tree is  6  again．"The young man  7  this．Then the old man said, "It is the same with children．You must be strict with them, but sometimes you must untie the line to  8  how they are getting on．If they are not able to stand alone, you must tie the line tight  9 ．But when you find that they are ready to stand alone, you can take the  10  away．

1．A．playing with            B．talking with          C．talking about        D．talking to

2．A．his                    B．their                C．her                D．one's

3．A．of                B．both                     C．among                D．between

4．A．tall                    B．old                   C．short                D．young

5．A．other                  B．another               C．the other             D．one

6．A．straight                 B．strong               C．tall                   D．young

7．A．pulled                  B．tied                 C．did                   D．made

8．A．bear                  B．see                   C．ask                 D．answer

9．A．again                    B．also                  C．too                  D．already

10．A．young tree             B．big tree                  C．old man              D．line