第二节 请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后所给的六个选项中选出五个可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
[2025南通市启东市期中]The baby books were sad. The big books were laughing at them. “You can hardly call yourselves books. You almost have no writing and are just all pictures,” said one book with lots of pages written in tiny letters. “41.
C
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So the poor baby books were not even given a little corner in bookshops. They ended up in warehouses(仓库).
The big books were so happy. Only adults would come into bookshops now because there was nothing interesting for those naughty(调皮的)children to read. 42.
F
Years passed and all those children who didn't even visit a bookshop finally became adults themselves.
“43.
A
” thought the big books.
But no. The adults who grew up without baby books had no interest in the big books. How were they going to read so many pages all at once if they had never read anything?
The big books were sad. 44.
B
Nobody was reading. The big books read and read millions of their own pages. They discovered that there was only one way out. 45.
E
After realizing this, they carried out the plan right now.
That's how the big books saved themselves. Children must read little by little so that they will grow up to be adults who love big books.
A. Now they can come in and admire our wisdom!
B. Bookshops were closing down one after another.
C. We won't let them put you next to us on the shelf!
D. Why don't people visit the bookshop to buy books?
E. They had to say sorry to the baby books and get them to come back.
F. The books were no longer afraid that their pages would be torn out or dirtied.