A man found the cocoon(茧) of a butterfly, One day a small
appeared , He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it
to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any
. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go
further.
So the man decided to
the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon.
The butterfly came out
. But it then had a swollen（肿胀的）body and small, shriveled (褶皱的)
.The man
to watch the butterfly because he’d expected that , at any moment, the wings would enlarge to be able to
the body , which would contract (缩小) in time . So he waited patiently.
happened! In fact, the butterfly
_the rest of its life crawling (爬行)around with a swollen body and shriveled wings , It was never able to
.What a shame!
The man, in his kindness and fast action, made a
. He did not understand that the suffering and the struggle
for the butterfly to get through the tiny hole were nature’s way of
fluid (体液) from the body of the butterfly into its wings
it would be ready for flight once it achieved its
from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are
what we need in our lives. If nature allowed us to go through our lives
any difficulties , it would weaken or even disable us. We would not be as
as what we could have been . We could never fly !
| 小题1: | | A．mark | B．insect | C．sign | D．opening |
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| 小题2: | | A．learned | B．struggled | C．pretended | D．expected |
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| 小题3: | | A．progress | B．decision | C．choice | D．noise |
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| 小题5: | | A．study | B．help | C．trouble | D．leave |
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| 小题6: | | A．silently | B．naturally | C．easily | D．excitedly |
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| 小题7: | | A．wings | B．legs | C．feet | D．head |
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| 小题8: | | A．waited | B．stopped | C．hoped | D．continued |
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| 小题9: | | A．examine | B．cover | C．trust | D．support |
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| 小题10: | | A．Neither | B．All | C．Either | D．Both |
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| 小题11: | | A．devoted | B．spent | C．put aside | D．gave up |
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| 小题12: | | A．walk | B．fly | C．get through | D．get up |
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| 小题13: | | A．mistake | B．discovery | C．face | D．fortune |
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| 小题14: | | A．wasted | B．watched | C．required | D．searched |
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| 小题15: | | A．forcing | B．making | C．producing | D．letting |
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| 小题16: | | A．even though | B．as if | C．so that | D．in case |
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| 小题17: | | A．energy | B．freedom | C．progress | D．life |
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| 小题18: | | A．almost | B．probably | C．hardly | D．exactly |
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| 小题19: | | A．with | B．by | C．from | D．without |
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| 小题20: | | A．wise | B．satisfied | C．strong | D．patient |
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