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Every morning a woman baked Chapati, an Indian cake, for her family and an extra one for a hungry
passerby. She would place the extra cake on the
1 for someone to take it.
She noticed a hunchback (驼背) came every day and took the extra cake. Instead of expressing
2 , he would mutter (嘀咕) the following words as he went his way: "The evil you do remains with
you. The good you do, comes back to you!"
This went on day after day. The woman felt very
3 . One day, she decided to
4 him. She added
poison to the cake she prepared for him! As she was about to place it on the window, her hands
5 .
She threw his cake into the fire
6 , prepared another one and put it on the window.
As usual, the hunchback came,
7 the cake and muttered the same words. The hunchback proceeded
on his way,
8 nothing about the fight in the mind of the woman.
The woman had a son who had gone to a distant place to
9 his fortune. Every day, as the woman
placed the cake on the window, she offered a
10 for him. For many months she had no news of him and
she prayed for his
11 return.
That evening, there was a knock on the door. Opening it, she was surprised to find her
12 standing
there. He had grown thin and lean. His clothes and shoes were
13 . He was hungry, starved and
14 .
Looking at his mother he said, "Mom, it's a(n)
15 I' m here. When 1 was but a mile away, I was so
starved that I collapsed (晕倒). I would have died, but for a whole
16 an old hunchback gave me."
As the mother heard those words, her lace turned
17 . She leaned against the door for
18 . Had
she not burnt it in the fire, it would have
19 her own son!
It was then that she realized the
20 of the words: "The evil you do remains with you. The good you
do, comes back to you!"
( )1. A. door ( )2. A. concern ( )3. A. annoyed ( )4. A. do away with ( )5. A. ached ( )6. A. immediately ( )7. A. checked up ( )8. A. asking ( )9. A. get ( )10. A. greeting ( )11. A. double ( )12. A. daughter ( )13. A. broken ( )14. A. strong ( )15. A. event ( )16. A. cake ( )17. A. black ( )18. A. fear ( )19. A. helped ( )20. A. value |
B. roof B. hope B. delighted B. get away with B. burnt B. fortunately B. picked up B. answering B. have B. hello B. happy B. husband B. torn B. free B. miracle B. egg B. green B. strength B. killed B. significance |
C. stone C. gratitude C. disappointed C. keep away from C. moved C. purposely C. swallowed up C. knowing C. seek C. kiss C. safe C. relative C. usual C. thirsty C. mistake C. meal C. pale C. support C. missed C. importance |
D. window D. regret D. relieved D. turn away from D. trembled D. carefully D. threw up D. wondering D. tell D. prayer D. warm D. son D. wet D. weak D. surprise D. supply D. yellow D. weight D. surrounded D. function |