One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his
son Thomas. The father said, "Look! There's a horseshoe. Pick it up and
put it in your bag." Thomas said, 'It isn't worth the trouble." His
father said nothing but picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town,
they lad a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies
he bought some cherries.
The father and the son continued their way. The sun
was well up in the sky, and there wasn't a house or even a tree where they
could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father
dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it.
After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost
some time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the
cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries,
his father said to him, "My dear son, if you had bent down earlier to pick
up that horseshoe. it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many
times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that anyone who does not
worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.
1.Who picked up the horseshoe at last?
A.Thomas.
B.The old
father.
C.Both the
father and the son.
D.Neither the
father nor the son.
2.The farmer bought _______ with the money after lie
sold the horseshoe.
A.some food
B.some water
C.some cherries
D.some pennies
3.When the son refused to pick up the horseshoe, the
father _______.
A.felt very
happy
B.didn't say
anything
C.beat the son
D.became a
little angry
4.The father dropped the cherries one by one, because
_______.
A.he wanted his
son to eat them all
B.he wanted his
son to do more exercise
C.lie wanted to
teach his son a lesson
D.he wanted his
son to pick them up
5.From the story, we can learn that _______.
A.cherries are
so delicious that most of is like to eat-them
B.a(chǎn) horseshoe
is so expensive that it can bring us a lot of money
C.if the boy
wants to eat cherries, he must pick up the horseshoe
D.if we want to
do some great things, we should start with some small ones