A woman repeated a bit of gossip（流言） about a neighbor. Within a few days, the whole village knew the story. The person she talked about was deeply hurt and angry.

Later, the woman spreading the rumor（谣言） learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise man to find out what she could do to repair the harm.

"Go to the marketplace," he said, "buy a chicken, and have it killed. Then on your way home, pick its feathers and drop them one by one along the road." Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told.

The next day the wise man said, "Now, go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me."

The woman followed the same road, but she was so discouraged when she found the wind had blown the feathers all away. After searching for hours, she returned with only three in her hand.

"You see," said the wise man, "it's easy to drop them, but it is impossible to get them all back. So it is the same with gossip. It doesn't take much to spread a rumor, but once you do, you can never completely undo（ 弥补） the wrong."

1.Why did the the woman feel sorry ?

2.What did the wise man tell the women to do?

3.The underlined word “discouraged” might mean       .

4.Which of the following statements is true?

5.What the wise man said has nearly the same meaning as the Chinese phrase______.

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通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Miracles will happen if you don't give up trying. Even if you have  1 for one hundred times, you may succeed when you try for the 10lst time.
When I was born, my doctor told my mother that there was something wrong with my 2  . They were too soft to be able to walk. Although the news was bad, my mother didn't become  3  . She didn't believe what the doctor said  4  started to look for other ways.
My mother kept looking for other doctors for me, and finally she  5  . The doctor and his team in the hospital did   6  they could to help me. They also asked my parents to teach me to do some  7  to help me walk. One day when my mother came to pick me  8  . I crawled towards her. She was so surprised and happy that she couldn't believe  9   eyes. Crawling was not walking, but it was a good 10  . Day by day, I could walk by myself.
When I grew up, my mother   11  told me these stories. She said that if I thought of what she said whenever I met  12 , I could do anything successfully. I have been working hard and I have turned out to be a very   13   person. I get best  14  in school and I am a good dancer and swimmer. 15   my mother's strong resolution, I live a happy life now. What the story tells us, as my mother always says, is: Never give up.

One day a lonely girl found two weak birds while she was walking in the woods(树林).She took them home and put them in a small cage. She fed them with love and the birds grew strong. Every morning they greeted her with a beautiful song. The girl loved them very much and wanted their singing to last forever.

  One day the girl left the cage’s door open. The larger and stronger of the two birds flew out of the cage. The girl watched worriedly as it circled(盘旋) high above her. She was afraid that it would fly away and she would never see it again. So when it flew close, she grasped(抓) at it wildly. She was very happy that she held it tightly within her hand! Suddenly, she felt something had happened to the bird. She opened her hand and was surprised to find the bird was dead. Her love for the bird killed it.

  She noticed the other bird jumping in the cage. She could feel that it wanted to be free. It hoped to fly into the clear, blue sky. She lifted(举起) it from the cage and flew it into the air. The bird circled once, twice, three times…

  When the bird was flying happily in the sky, she was so glad. Just then the bird flew closer and sat softly on her shoulder. It sang the sweetest song she had ever heard.

  The fastest way to lose love is to hold it tight; the best way to keep love is to let it fly!

1.The girl loved the two birds very much because _____.

  A. they greeted her every morning               B. they were hungry but very strong

  C. they liked staying in the cage quietly        D. they didn’t eat much food

2.One day the girl forgot to close the door to the cage and _______ of the two birds flew out of the cage.

  A. the sick                                  B. the female

  C. the larger and stronger                   D. the white and blue

3.The girl held the bird rightly in her hand because she was afraid that ________.

  A. it would be killed                         B. it was feeling cold

  C. the other bird felt lonely                 D. it would fly away

4.The girl felt that the other bird ____ when it was jumping in the cage.

  A. wanted to see what happened               B. wanted to be free

  C. wanted to sing a beautiful song again     D. wanted to eat something

5.What does the story want to tell us?

  A. We should protect the endangered birds.      B. The cage is used to keep birds.

  C. The birds are easily killed.                  D. To keep love is to let it fly.

A little girl thought she was not as beautiful as other girls, and nobody liked her. So she was always unhappy and didn’t like to talk to others. However, one day, her mother gave her a beautiful hair clip(发夹). When she wore it, she looked much more beautiful than before. She decided to wear it to school.
On her way to school she found that everyone who saw her smiled at her. Most of her schoolmates said “Hello” to her, but this never happened before. She thought that the beautiful hair clip had brought her them all. She was so happy about all of the wonderful things. Although she didn’t tell her classmates about her beautiful hair clip, they all wanted to know what had happened to her.
When she went back home after school, her mother asked her: “Did you know you dropped your hair clip? I found it by the door this morning.”
She understood that she hadn’t worn the hair clip to school at all.
【小题1】Which of the following sentence is true?

Saturday morning was bright and fresh. There was a song in every heart, cheer on every face, and a  spring in every step.
Tom appeared with a bucket of white paint in one hand and a brush in the other. His Aunt Polly told him to paint the fence around the garden. It was thirty yards long and nine feet high. He felt very depressed.
Then he had a wonderful idea. He picked up his brush and started to work.
Soon Ben came along the road. He was happily eating an apple. He stopped to look at Tom. Tom went on painting and pretended（假装）not to see Ben.
“I’m going swimming,” said Ben. “Do you want to go swimming, Tom? But I guess you can’t. You have to stay and work, don’t you?”
“Work?” Tom said. “This isn’t work. I’m enjoying myself. Does a boy get a chance to paint a fence like this every day?”
Ben  thought  about  this.  Tom  continued  painting  carefully. Sometimes he stopped, stood back to look at the fence like an artist, and then added a bit more paint in just the right place. Ben was watching Tom paint with great interest. He was getting more and more eager to have a try himself.
After a while, Ben asked Tom if he would let him paint a little. Tom thought about it, and said,
“No, Ben, I can’t. You see. Aunt Polly wants it to be done well. Aunt Polly said that I must paint it with great care.”
“Oh, please, Tom,” begged Ben. “I can do it. I’ll be really careful. Just let me try. I’ll give you half of my apple. Well, I’ll give you all of it!”
“Well, all right, Ben,” said Tom. “You must be very careful.”
He gave Ben his brush with worry on his face but joy in his heart. He sat down under the tree, and started to eat Ben’s apple. All day, boys came to make fun of Tom, but they ended up staying to paint. When Ben got tired, Billy was waiting. He gave Tom a kite for a chance to paint. Then Johnny offered him twelve marbles, and so on.
By late afternoon Tom had gained all sorts of toys, and the fence had gained three  coats of paint. Later Aunt Polly came to look at the painted fence. She was so pleased with Tom’s work that she gave Tom a large cake!
【小题1】Why did Tom pretend not to see Ben when he came and watched him painting?