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Some people were steaming peas under a tree in order to make a meal for their horses. Up in the
branches sat a monkey,__1__what they were doing.
"Aha" thought the monkey. "I spot my  2_  !" So when the men had finished steaming the peas and
__3__for a moment to look after the horses,__4__,the monkey let himself down from the tree. He
snatched (抓) the peas and filled his__5__and both hands as full as they could__6__. Then he climbed up the tree and sat there, eating happily.
Suddenly one pea fell.
"Oh dear! Oh my pea!" cried the monkey. The other peas__7__to drop out of his mouth. He__8__his hands in despair(绝望地), and the peas fell out of his hands too, but he took on__9__. All he thought of
was that one pea was gone,__10__ he climbed down the trunk to hunt for his lost pea on the ground. At
this time, the men came back. When they saw a monkey__11__with their pots, they all__12__their arms
and shouted, "Shoo! Shoo!" Then they picked up stones and began to__13__the monkey with them. The monkey was so__14__that he gave one jump to the nearest__15__, and swung himself up to the top of
the tree.
"After all," said he to himself, "it was__16__ one pea." But he ought to have thought of that__17__, for now all the other peas had gone too.
That day the monkey had to content himself with the__18__of boiled peas for dinner, and I hope the
__19__ taught him not to be so__20__in future.
(     )1. A. watching
(     )2. A. shelter
(     )3. A. turned up
(     )4. A. easily
(     )5. A. bowl
(     )6. A. receive
(     )7. A. seemed
(     )8. A. crossed
(     )9. A. interest
(     )10. A. so
(     )11. A. helping
(     )12. A. carried
(     )13. A. attack
(     )14. A puzzled
(     )15. A. branch
(     )16. A. still
(     )17. A. earlier
(     )18. A. image
(     )19. A. trick
(     )20. A. curious

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