Cure for Sorrow
There is an old story telling about a woman whose only son died in an accident. In her
31 , she went to the wise man that is always
32 for his wisdom in her town and said, “What advice or what
33 ways do you have to bring my son back to life? I will
34 you with all I have if you can.”
Instead of sending her away or
35 with her, he said to her, “Fetch me a mustard(芥末) seed from a home that has never
36 sorrow. We will use it to drive the sorrow out of your life.” The woman went off at once in
37 of that magical mustard seed.
She came first to a splendid apartment,
38 at the door, and said in a
39 voice, “I am looking for a home that has never known sorrow. Is this such a(n)
40 that I want? It is very important to me.”
41 , she didn’t get what she wanted, even without a single word of
42 . They told her that she had come to the wrong place. And they began to
43 all the tragic things that recently had happened to them.
The woman said to herself, “Who is better able to help these poor,
44 people than I, though I also have had misfortune of my own?” She
45 to comfort them till they
46 . Then she went on searching for a home that had never known sorrow. But
47 she turned up, in small cottages or in other places, she found one
48 after another of sadness and misfortune. She became so
49 in helping other people out of their sorrow that finally she forgot about her quest for the special mustard seed, in fact, never 50 that it had driven the sorrow out of her life.
| 小题1: | | A．joy | B．danger | C．belief | D．sorrow |
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| 小题2: | | A．envied | B．considered | C．respected | D．treated |
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| 小题3: | | A．strange | B．magical | C．valuable | D．important |
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| 小题4: | | A．reward | B．supply | C．provide | D．award |
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| 小题5: | | A．quarreling | B．discussing | C．reasoning | D．arguing |
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| 小题6: | | A．suffered | B．known | C．obtained | D．forgotten |
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| 小题7: | | A．honor | B．favor | C．need | D．search |
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| 小题8: | | A．knocked | B．broke | C．stood | D．pointed |
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| 小题9: | | A．excited | B．confident | C．sad | D．urgent |
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| 小题10: | | A．place | B．answer | C．apartment | D．person |
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| 小题11: | | A．Luckily | B．Immediately | C．Gradually | D．Unfortunately |
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| 小题12: | | A．praise | B．Respect | C．comfort | D．encouragement |
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| 小题13: | | A．exchange | B．describe | C．simplify | D．decorate |
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| 小题14: | | A．unfortunate | B．unfriendly | C．unimportant | D．unfamiliar |
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| 小题15: | | A．planned | B．managed | C．continued | D．stayed |
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| 小题16: | | A．settle down | B．break down | C．calm down | D．get down |
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| 小题17: | | A．wherever | B．whatever | C．however | D．whenever |
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| 小题18: | | A．excuse | B．tale | C．lie | D．reason |
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| 小题19: | | A．curious | B．puzzled | C．worried | D．involved |
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| 小题20: | | A．recognizing | B．realizing | C．remembering | D．wondering |
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