There was once a farmer who had a fine olive orchard（橄榄园）. He was very hardworking, and the
36 always prospered（繁荣）under his care. But he knew that his three
37 looked down upon the farm work, and were eager to make wealth.
When the farmer was
38 and felt that he would die, he
39 the three sons to him and said, “My sons, there is a pot of gold
40 in the olive orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it.”The sons tried to
41 him to tell them in what part of the orchard the
42 was hidden, but he would tell them nothing more.
After the farmer was
43 , the sons went to work to find the pot of gold; since they did not
44 where the hiding-place was, they agreed to begin in a line, at one
45 of the orchard, and to dig until one of them should find the money.
They
46 until they had turned up the
47 from one end of the orchard to the other,
48 the tree-roots and between them.
49 no pot of gold was to be found. It seemed as if someone must have stolen it, or as if the farmer had been wandering in his wits. The three sons were bitterly
50 to have all their work for nothing.
The next olive
51 , the olive trees in the orchard bore（结果实）more fruit than they had
52 given; when it was
53 , it gave the sons a whole pot of gold.
And when they saw how much money had
54 the orchard, they suddenly understood what the wise father had
55 when he said, “There is gold hidden in the orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it.”
| 小题1: | | A．farm | B．garden | C．factory | D．hospital |
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| 小题2: | | A．friends | B．sons | C．relatives | D．children |
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| 小题3: | | A．healthy | B．old | C．unlucky | D．sad |
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| 小题4: | | A．showed | B．led | C．called | D．visited |
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| 小题5: | | A．sent | B．put | C．hidden | D．locked |
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| 小题7: | | A．goods | B．jewel | C．clothes | D．gold |
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| 小题8: | | A．weak | B．lost | C．dead | D．sick |
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| 小题9: | | A．think | B．know | C．wonder | D．realise |
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| 小题10: | | A．end | B．top | C．surface | D．bottom |
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| 小题11: | | A．dug | B．searched | C．discovered | D．expected |
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| 小题12: | | A．sand | B．soil | C．ground | D．floor |
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| 小题13: | | A．over | B．among | C．round | D．across |
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| 小题14: | | A．Since | B．And | C．Before | D．But |
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| 小题15: | | A．disappointed | B．surprised | C．worried | D．sad |
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| 小题16: | | A．season | B．part | C．distance | D．degree |
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| 小题17: | | A．already | B．even | C．ever | D．still |
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| 小题18: | | A．made | B．sold | C．shipped | D．saved |
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| 小题19: | | A．come on | B．come about | C．come up | D．come from |
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| 小题20: | | A．thought | B．planned | C．guessed | D．meant |
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