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A good friend of mine, Gabriel, had a tiny farm in a small town. He only had a cow and dreamed about
having a(n)
1 farm. He looked at the horizon (地平线) every sunset and once he told his father, "I'd like
to have that
2 over there?" His father
3 him to go and talk to the landowner to see
4 they could obtain
the land. Gabriel replied, "But we don't have the
5 ." His father said, "Don't worry, go and talk to him."
Several years have passed and now Gabriel not only
6 the land but a theme park that
7 several hundred
cows, a small zoo, horse ride cabalgatas (马队), four-wheel motors and much more fun of the whole family
8 .
A year ago, when the park was already
9 a huge number of tourists, Gabriel's wife Sarah had a dream.
"I want to build the
10 cow in the world," she said.
They called a friend, Manuel Hernandez, for this
11 . In three days he had plans for the whole project. Then
they asked,"How much will it
12 ?" Manuel mentioned a big sum of money.
"
13 will loan (借贷) us that quantity of money to build a cow," they thought, but the manager of the bank
14 them and their dreams.
Last October, La Manuela, the biggest cow in the world was
15 to the public. It is 9 meters tall and 16
meters long. The cow
16 eats you...and you travel inside the cow learning how grass is changed into
17 .
Moral of the story. If you can dream about it and you put all your
18 and foremost desire to make it happen,
it will become a(n)
19 despite how difficult or
20 it may sound.
( )1. A. tiny ( )2. A. cow ( )3. A. encouraged ( )4. A. why ( )5. A. message ( )6. A. plants ( )7. A. includes ( )8. A. education ( )9. A. requiring ( )10. A. strongest ( )11. A. experiment ( )12. A. cost ( )13. A. Everybody ( )14. A. employed ( )15. A. led ( )16. A. actually ( )17. A. tree ( )18. A. equipment ( )19. A. imagination ( )20. A. expensive |
B. remote B. land B. allowed B. what B. chance B. discovers B. buys B. enjoyment B. organizing B. cleverest B. task B. save B. Anybody B. interviewed B. opened B. nearly B. milk B. nutrition B. effect B. comfortable |
C. old C. factory C. demanded C. how C. time C. owns C. feeds C. work C. attracting C. bravest C. risk C. spare C. Nobody C. lent C. delivered C. especially C. food C. energy C. result C. foolish |
D. large D. family D. reminded D. when D. money D. rents D. saves D. rest D. sending D. biggest D. test D. pay D. Somebody D. trusted D. passed D. eventually D. wood D. information D. reality D. practical |