阅读理解。
A man was looking for things of old times. One day he came to a village and found a blue bowl
which looked very old. The bowl was on the ground and a cat was drinking milk from it. A farmer, the
owner (主人) of the cat, was lying beside the bowl. In order not to draw the famer's attention (引起农
夫的注意)to the value (价值) of the bowl,the man said to him in a soft voice,"What a nice cat you
have! Won't you sell it to me?"
"How much would you give me for it?" the farmer opened his eyes and asked.
"Twenty dollars. Would it be enough?
A few minutes later, the farmer agreed. After he paid the farmer,the man said, "My cat will certainly
feel thirsty. May I take the bowl so that the cat can have milk?
But the farmer said,"I'm sorry I can't give it to you. Thanks to the bowl, I have already sold twenty
cats."
1.The man liked _____.
A. collecting (收集) old things
B. travelling from village to village
C. meeting farmers
D. buying cats
2. Why did the man want to buy the cat? Because _____.
A. it was very lovely
B. the cat cost more money than the bowl
C. he thought he could easily get the boll if he bought the cat
D. he hadn't got enough money to buy both the cat and the bowl
3. After he bought the cat, the man asked for the bowl, because he thought _____.
A. the bowl should go with the cat
B. the bowl had a beautiful color
C. the farmer didn't know the value to the bowl
D. the cat could not live without the bowl
4. The farmer kept the bowl so that he could _____.
A. let another cat use it
B. sell more cats
C. sell more bowls
D. use the bowl himself
5. From the story we can see that the farmer _____.
A. had only one bowl
B. was very poor
C. didn't like cats
D. had got much money with the "help"of the bowl
