Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box.
Each one can only be used once.
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A. ran B. looked like C. both
D. stick E. naughty
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One
evening Nasreddin heard a noise in his garden and looked out of the window. A
white ox had got into the garden and was eating his vegetables. Nasreddin at
once took his{#blank#}1{#/blank#},
ran out and chased the ox, but he was too old to catch it. When he got back to
his garden, he found that the ox had ruined(毁坏)most
of his precious vegetables.
The next
morning, while he was walking in the street near his house, he saw cart(运货车)with two white oxen which{#blank#}2{#/blank#}the one that had eaten his vegetables
very much. He was carrying his stick with him, so he at once began to beat the
two oxen with it. As neither of them looked more like the ox that had eaten his
vegetables than the other, he beat{#blank#}3{#/blank#}of them equally hard. The owner of the
oxen and the cart was drinking coffee in a nearby coffee-house. When he saw what
Nasreddin was doing to his animals, he{#blank#}4{#/blank#}out and shouted, "What are you
doing? What have those poor animals done to you for you to beat them like
that?" "You keep out of this!" Nasreddin shouted back. This is a
matter between me and one of these two oxen. He knows very well why I am
beating him!"
