Question

When the two brothers were old enough to marry, their father was not happy because their family wasn’t so rich that the brothers often argued with each other about some small interest and he really didn’t know how they would quarrel when they broke up the family and lived apart.

One day, their father was sick,lying in bed and staring at nothing,when the elder son came over to wish him good health. His father said,” Ask your brothers to come here,and I have something to say.”

The younger brother arrived. Their father sat up and said,”I don’t know how the disease(疾�。﹉it. I’m feeling terribly unwell.”The brothers persuaded（勸說(shuō)）their father not to worry about it ,but he shook his head,”In fact I don’t worry about this disease because I manage it ,but if you are in discord with each other in the future, it will be our family’s ‘disease’ and no one can deal with it .”The brothers felt ashamed.

The father got out of the bed,pointed to some chickens in the yard and said,”Look at them sitting there in peace with each other, isn’t it good?”Then their father brought out a bowl of corns,went quietly behind the house and spread most of them on the ground.Then he went back to the yard with only a few corns left and flung at (扔向)the chickens.As soon as they saw the corns,the chickens jumped up,quacked their wings and fought for it .The peaceful world was now filled with”smoke of gunpowder”for some coins.

The brothers smiled and understood what their father was driving at .

Their father added,”Both of you saw more corns are behind the house...”

Actually,aren’t many troubles in life because God scattered(撒)some corns before us?

1.What was the old man worried about ?

A. The elder son would make trouble with the younger one .

B. His family was too poor to leave them anything.

C. The two sons would fight over some small things.

D. The corns in his house was not enough for them to live on.

2.How did the old man think of his illness?

A. It was serious ,but he could go through it .

B. It was serious ,he couldn’t live long.

C. It was not serious ,and he thought it as nothing.

D. It was serious,and he could hardly stand it .

3.The underlined phrase”are in disorder”in paragraph 3 means_____here.

A. agree with each other B. get on badly with each other

C. make friends with each other D. are impolite to each other

4.Why did the old man spread most of corns on the ground ?

A. Because the chickens had already had enough.

B. Because he wanted his sons to grow more corns next year.

C. Because he wanted the chickens to found the rest.

D. Because he wanted to show the terrible scene to his sons.

5.What does the writer want to tell us ?

A. We should fine new ways to deal with troubles in life .

B. There are always bad things in our life which we should face.

C. The disease of a family is more serious than the disease of a person.

D. People should be hard-working and live peacefully together.

Answer 1