I remember a day when I was a little kid. I was making
a sandwich in the kitchen when I noticed the date on one of the wine bottles.
“ Dad, dad!” I cried. “This wine is too old to drink.”
“ Son, hold on,” he said.
“ No, you can’t drink this tonight! This bottle of
wine was made 10 years ago.”
“ Wait, let me tell you…”
“ Would you like me to throw it away fro you?” I
asked.
“ Son, wait a second,” he said. “Son, some wines get
better over time. The longer you wait to drink it, the better it will be.
Although this may seem strange, it is true.”
When I was young, I didn’t have any understanding of
what this meant, but now, this would have been very helpful to remember as I
went through my teenage years.
In our society, we forget this simple rule: The longer
you want for certain things, the better they will be. But we want the best job
as quickly as possible; we want to graduate from college in as few years as
possible; we even speed through our homework just to chat with friends. When we
do this, we lose something of great importance.
We all want to get to the next step so quickly that
perhaps we don’t get ready enough to get there. This has a negative effect on
our society. When trying to go to the right college, we will do anything to get
in and when we rush through our class-work, we may not study enough for the
test, and end up failing. We need to be ready for whatever comes, ready for the
unexpected. Wine gets better over time, so do the things in our paths of life.
1.Why did the author tell his father not to drink the
bottle of wine?
A.Because it
smelt terrible.
B.Because it had
been kept for years.
C.Because it
was mixed with something else.
D.Because his
father drank too much that night.
2.What the author’s father said __________.
A.made the
author puzzled when he was a little child.
B.was too
simple a rule to be meaningful to the author.
C.threw the
author into deep thought then.
D.was an excuse
to drink the wine.
3.In the author’s opinion, if we do things too
quickly, we will __________.
A.do it better
B.save much
time
C.graduate from
college more quickly
D.miss something
useful to us in life
4.Which of the following best reflects the main idea
of the passage?
A.Well begun is
half done.
B.More haste,
less speed.
C.Failure is
the mother of success.
D.Nothing is
impossible to a willing heart.