题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
浙江省宁波市奉化区2020届九年级上学期英语期末考试试卷
Once upon a time, there was a farmer named Harry. He worked very hard, 1his time in the field brought him no harvest. One day, he sat down under a tree for a rest. Then he saw a snake, and thought, "This is surely the goddess of the field, and I have not once paid her homage (敬意). That is2nothing grows in my field." After thinking it over, he got some3to the snake. The next day he returned and found a gold coin in the basin. And it continued4. He brought the snake milk, and always found a coin there the next morning.
One day, Harry asked his son to take the milk to the snake. The son did so. He brought the milk,5it there, and returned home. When he came back the next day, he found a coin. "This place must6gold coins. I will kill the snake and take them all at7!"
Having8this, the son returned the next day with the milk and a stick. As he gave the milk to the snake, he suddenly hit her9the head with the stick but the snake didn't die. Filled with10, she bit the boy with her sharp, poisoned teeth. The boy fell dead at once.
When Harry found why his son had died, he said that the snake had done11wrong. The next day, he once again took milk to the snake and praised the snake with a12voice. The snake appeared and said to him, "You come here from greed (贪心), letting even your pain for your son13. Your son, in his lack of understanding, hit me. I bit him. How can I forget the stick's blow? How can you forget the14for your son? From now on friendship between you and me will no longer be15." After saying this she gave him a pearl and said, "Do not come back." Then she disappeared into her cave.
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