D
There is a shepherd boy who looks after sheep for all the people in the village where he lives. Every morning, he gathers the sheep from their owners and drives them onto the hills to graze(吃草). Every evening, he rounds them up carefully and brings them back. Sometimes the boy feels bored because he has nothing to do but watch the sheep eat grass all day.
One day, he wants to play a trick. He cries aloud, “Wolf! Wolf!”
Hearing him shout, the villagers run quickly to help him drive away the wolf. However, when they reach there, there is no wolf to be seen.
The boy thinks it is very funny. “You aren’t quick enough,” he says to them. “The wolf has run away.”
A few days later, he shouts “Wolf!” again. Again, the villagers come to help him, and again he says, “You aren’t quick enough. The wolf has run away.” The angry villagers go back to work.
Then, late one winter evening, just as the boy is thinking of gathering the sheep together to take them home, a wolf really comes. The shepherd boy is very afraid. The wolf looks very big in the half darkness and he only has a crook in his hand. He shouts, “Wolf! Wolf! A wolf is taking the sheep!”
This time, however, the villagers do not come to help him drive away the wolf. They say, “He has played that trick too often.”
Before the boy can find anyone to help him, the wolf has killed all the sheep.
—Taken from Aesop’s Fables
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B
)12. Whose sheep does the shepherd boy look after?
A. The boy's.
B. The villagers'.
C. The wolf's.
D. The boy's father's.
(
D
)13. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The boy feels happy to see wolves run away.
B. The boy is happy to be with the sheep every day.
C. The wolf runs away without taking any sheep.
D. The wolf kills all the sheep in the end.
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A
)14. Which is the right order of the story?
①The wolf really comes and kills all the sheep.
②The boy shouts Wolf! for the first time.
③The boy looks after sheep for the villagers and feels bored.
④The boy shouts Wolf! again and the villagers are angry.
A. ③→②→④→①
B. ③→④→②→①
C. ②→③→④→①
D. ④→②→③→①
(
D
)15. What does the story want to tell us?
A. If we don't talk to villagers, we may get into trouble.
B. Try our best and we can look after the sheep well.
C. It's easy to look after the sheep well on a hill.
D. All of us should always try to be honest(诚实的).
