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I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the tortoise. At the end I said, "Son, remember:
Slow and steady wins the race. Don't you think there's something to learn from the tortoise?" He opened
his eyes wide. "Do you mean next time when I'm entering the 60-metre race I should wish Billy and Tony
and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?"
I was surprised. "But the tortoise didn't wish the hare would fall asleep."
"He must have wished that," Sonny said, "Otherwise how could he be so stupid as to race with the
hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did."
"He didn't have such a wish." I insisted. "He won the race by perseverance(毅力), by pushing on
steadily."
Sonny thought for a while. "That's a lie," he said. "He won the race because he was lucky. If the hare
hadn't happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steady as you
like, or a hundred times steadier, but he'd never have won the race! That's for sure."
1. The writer argued with his son because _______.
A. he liked tortoises while his son liked hares
B. they disagreed about whether the tortoise was stupid
C. he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn't
D. he tried to teach his son the moral lesson of the story but the son refused it
2. Sonny believed that the tortoise ________.
A. won the race by his effort
B. took a risk by agreeing to the race
C. was not given a fair chance in the race
D. in fact did not win the race
3. According to the passage, who do you think learned a lesson?
A. The tortoise.
B. The hare.
C. Sonny.
D. Sonny's father.
