Johnny, a lizard (蜥蜴），lived between some rocks in the country, where he liked sunbathing every morning. One day, he felt so
that he didn’t notice some boys coming up behind him. The boys caught Johnny, and he could only escape from their hands by losing his
and running to hide.
The children watched his tail moving about, but they soon threw the tail away and left. Johnny came out to
his tail, but could find no
of it. Feeling so sad, he decided to
doing everything else in his life and spending all his time finding his tail. Days and months passed, and Johnny kept looking, asking everyone
they had seen his tail. However, there was
no news about it.
One day, he asked a boy and the boy
replied, “Why do you need two tails?” After hearing this, Johnny turned back and saw that he had grown a new, stronger tail. He suddenly realised how
it had been to waste so much time on a problem like it. Johnny headed for home.
, he suddenly found his old tail on the roadside. Although it
terrible, Johnny was still excited to have it back. He picked it up and was about to
his journey. Just at that moment, an idea hit him that he shouldn’t look at the past and worry about it since it was not useful for
.
He then decided to
his old tail there, leaving with it all his past worries. As he continued his journey, all he took with him were thoughts of the present and the dreams of the
.
As we know, it’s not good to look at the past, unless it helps in the future. Let the past go with the wind.
| 小题1: | | A．interested | B．relaxed | C．lonely | D．nervous |
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| 小题3: | | A．look at | B．look after | C．look up | D．look for |
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| 小题4: | | A．need | B．sign | C．reason | D．use |
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| 小题5: | | A．keep | B．finish | C．begin | D．stop |
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| 小题6: | | A．whether | B．that | C．how | D．why |
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| 小题7: | | A．only | B．still | C．also | D．always |
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| 小题8: | | A．hopefully | B．generally | C．surprisedly | D．wonderfully |
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| 小题9: | | A．lucky | B．hard | C．careless | D．silly |
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| 小题10: | | A．In a way | B．By the way | C．On the way | D．In the way |
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| 小题11: | | A．sounded | B．looked | C．smelled | D．tasted |
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| 小题12: | | A．change | B．continue | C．plan | D．end |
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| 小题14: | | A．return | B．cut | C．move | D．drop |
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| 小题15: | | A．tail | B．present | C．future | D．past |
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