One very cold morning, my, father and I were working on the farm. I asked him how long I must stay in the ____31____.
“About an hour.”he answered.
“I wish I could go hone now—my __32__ aches.”
“I am sorry, but can’t you stay till lunch time?”said my father.
“But my headache is getting __33__.”
“Well,” said he,“you may go home. I don’t want you to work if you are sick. Go straight home __34__ tell your mother to give you some rhubarb(大黄，一种苦药).It will __35__ you a lot.”
I went back home. However, I told my mother that my head was better, hoping not to __36__ the terrible medicine. But it was too __37__.She understood my __38__ as well as my father. So she prepared the rhubarb.
I had to swallow(吞) all of the rhubarb. Dear me! How bitter it was! I would rather __39__ all day in the field. But it cured(治愈) my laziness, and I learned that it is important to be __40__.
Friends, keep it, though there is another and a better reason.
小题1:A. field                 B. hospital               C. factory
小题2:A. tooth                B. head                  C. stomach
小题3:A. better                B. worse                 C. less
小题4: A. but                 B. or                     C. and
小题5:A. hurt                 B. worry                 C. help
小题6:A. take                 B. buy                   C. make
小题7: A. early                B. late                    C. easy
小题8:A. joke                 B. duty                   C. problem
小题9:A. work                B. play                    C. study
小题10: A. kind                 B. honest                  C, helpful