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A young man asked Albert Einstein , the great Germanscientist , what the secret of success is. The scientist told him that thesecret of success is hard work. A few days later the young man asked the samequestion again . Einstein was very annoyed . He did not sayanything ,but wrote a few words on a piece of paper . On it was written:A=X+Y+Z.
“What does this mean ?” asked the young man .
“A means “success”” explained the old scientist . “X stands for hard work ,Y for good method (方法) and Z Z means stop talking and get down to work.”
1. The young man _________.
A. wanted tomeet Einstein
B. wanted tobe a great scientist like Einstein
C. was eager (渴望) to know the secret of success
D. wanted tobe a student of Einstein
2. InEinstein’s opinion the secret of success was ________.
A. to workwith great energy (精力，活力)
B. to studyhard day and night
C. to learnfrom great scientists
D. to raise (提出) questions as many as you could
3. “Y” stands for _______.
A. hardwork B. great energy
C. great success D. good manner(方法)
4. The word “annoyed” means ________.
A. angry B. sad
C. lovely D. glad
5. Einsteinwas a man who ______
A. liked totalk with young people
B. liked tohelp others
C. liked tomake friends with young people
D. liked towork , but didn’t like to talk
答案：CBDAD
It was Mondy. Mrs Smith’s dog washungry, but there was not any meat in the house.
Considering that there was no better way. Mrs Smith tooka piece of paper, and wrote the following words on it: “Give my dog half a pound of meat.” Then shegave the paper to her dog and said gently: “Take thisto the butcher (person whose job is selling meat), and he’s going to give you 《·》your lunch today.”
Holding the piece of paper in its mouth, the dog ran to thebutcher’s. It gave the paper to the butcher. Thebutcher read it carefully, recognized that it was really the lady’s handwriting and soon did it as he was asked to. The dog was veryhappy, and ate the meat up at once.
At noon, the dog came to the shop again. It gave thebutcher a piece of paper again. After reading it, he gave it half a pound ofmeat once more.
The next day, the dog came again exactly at noon. And asusual, it brought a piece of paper in the mouth. This time, the butcher did nottake a look at paper, and gave the dog its meat, for he had regarded the dog asone of his customers (* people who buy something from a shop).
But, the dog came again at four o’clock. And the same thing happened once again. To the butcher’s more surprise, it came for the third time at six o’clock, and brought with it a third piece of paper. The butcher felta bit puzzled. He said to himself, “This is a smalldog. Why does Mrs Smith give it so much meat to eat today?”
Looking at the piece of paper, he found that there werenot any words on it!
1. Mrs Smith treated her little dog quite _______.
A. cruelly B. fairly C.kindly D.unfriendly
2. It seemed that the dog knew well that the paper Mrs Smith gave it .
A. might do itmuch harm.
B. could do it much good
C. would helpthe butcher
D. was worth many pounds
3. The butcher did not give any meat to the dog _______.
A. before he felt sure that the words were really written by Mrs Smith
B. when he found that the words on the paper were not clear
C. because hehad sold out all the meat in his shop
D. until he was paid enough by Mrs Smith
4. From its experence, the dog found that _______.
A. only thepaper with Mrs Smith’s words on it could bring it meat
B. the butcher would give the meat to it whenever he saw it
C. Mrs Smith would pay for the meat it got from the butcher
D. a piece ofpaper could bring it half a pound of meat
5. At the end of the story, you’ll find that _______.
A. the dog wasclever enough to write on the paper
B. the dogdared not go to the butcher’s any more
C. the butcher was told not to give any meat to the dog
D. the butcher found himself cheated (* act in a way that is not honest) by the clever animal
答案：CBADD