Passage Four
There was once a man who spent all his time in his glasshouse. Flowers was his name, and flowers were his main joy in life. He grew flowers of every color under the sun. He grew these flowers in order to enter them for competition. His greatest hope in life was to grow a rose of an entirely new color that would win him the silver cup for the Rose of the Year.
Mr. Flowers’ glasshouse was close to a public path, which was always used by children walking to and from school. Boys were often attracted to throw a stone or two at his glasshouse. So Mr. Flowers did his best to be in or close by his glasshouse at the beginning and end of the school day.
However, it was not convenient or possible to be on guard all the time. Mr. Flowers had tried in many ways to prevent harm to his glass; but nothing that he had done had been successful.
Then, just as he was giving up hope of ever winning the battle, and of growing the Rose of the Y
A. to grow beautiful flowers
B. to grow the Rose of the Year and win a prize
C. to grow all kinds of flowers in the world
D. to take part in the competition
C
David was a young man who worked in an office in a big city. His hobby was fishing, but he didn’t often get a chance to practise it.
Then one summer he decided to have a holiday in a beautiful place in the mountains where here were a lot of streams. "I ought to be able to have some good fishing there," he said to himself.
The first morning after he arrived, he walked to the nearest stream with his fishing-rod. He aw an old man standing beside the water, so he asked him whether it was a private(私人的) stream. The old man answered it was not, so David then said to him, "Well, then it won’t be a crime(犯罪) if I catch some fish here, will it"
"Oh, no," answered the old man. "It won’t be a crime, but it will certainly be a miracle(奇迹)。"
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