I was 14 when Mr. Ingram hired me as a farmhand. It was the first time I was actually
for work. One day Mr. Ingram found an old truck that was
in the soft,sandy soil of our field. It was full of melons that someone had tried to
from our farm before his truck got caught in the mud.
Mr. Ingram explained that the truck’s owner would be
soon, and he wanted me to watch and learn. It wasn’t long
a local guy with a terrible reputation for fighting and stealing showed up with his two fully-grown sons. They looked really
.
Calmly Mr. Ingram said, “Well, I see you want to
some watermelons from us.”
There was a long
before the man answered, “Yeah, I guess so. What are you
for them?”
“Twenty-five cents each.”
“Well, I suppose that would be
enough if you help me get my truck out of here,” the man said.
It turned out to be our biggest sale of the summer, and an awful, perhaps violent incident had been
. After they left, Mr. Ingram smiled and said to me, “Son, if you don’t forgive your
, you’re going to run out of friends.”
| 小题1: | | A．trusted | B．ready | C．paid | D．offered |
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| 小题2: | | A．stuck | B．broken | C．deserted | D．lost |
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| 小题3: | | A．remove | B．steal | C．sell | D．hide |
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| 小题4: | | A．purchasing | B．bargaining | C．returning | D．searching |
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| 小题5: | | A．till | B．before | C．that | D．since |
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| 小题6: | | A．astonished | B．anxious | C．familiar | D．angry |
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| 小题7: | | A．borrow | B．buy | C．steal | D．carry |
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| 小题8: | | A．break | B．discussion | C．watching | D．silence |
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| 小题9: | | A．getting | B．offering | C．paying | D．finding |
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| 小题10: | | A．necessary | B．helpful | C．easy | D．fair |
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| 小题11: | | A．stopped | B．avoided | C．handled | D．taught |
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| 小题12: | | A．mistakes | B．neighbors | C．enemies | D．Melons |
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