题型：完形填空 题类：常考题 难易度：困难
江苏省泰州市海陵区泰州中学附属初级中学2019-2020学年八年级上学期英语期中考试试卷
Once upon a time, a beautiful bird and a tortoise became good friends. The bird lived in a tree by the banks of the river. The tortoise had his1 there too. They are neighbours. Every day, after the bird flew down and had a drink of water, he would dance near the river to make the tortoise friend 2.
One day, a bird-catcher caught the bird and wanted to take him away to the market. The unhappy bird asked the catcher to allow him to say 3 to his friend, tortoise. The bird-catcher 4 and took him to the tortoise. The tortoise was5 to see his friend a captive(俘虏).
The tortoise asked the bird-catcher to let the bird go. And the tortoise said if the catcher6, he would give the bird-catcher an expensive 7. The bird-catcher agreed. To his surprise, The tortoise then dived into the water and in a few seconds 8with a nice pearl(珍珠). The bird-catcher was very happy to see it and he let the bird go at once.
A short time later, the man came back and told the tortoise that a pearl was not enough and planned to catch the bird again if the tortoise doesn't 9 him another bigger and nicer pearl. The tortoise, who had already helped his friend, the bird, to leave the place to a forest far away after being set free, was greatly 10 with this man.
"Well," said the tortoise, "if you still want to 11 another pearl, give the first one to me and I will fish another one for you." 12 his greed(贪婪), the bird-catcher gave the pearl to the tortoise, who 13 away with it saying, "I am no fool to take one and give two!" The tortoise then dived into the water 14, leaving the bird-catcher without a single pearl.
We should learn from the short story that greed leads you to have 15.
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