Long long ago, there were two men who had a very fierce quarrel. They argued for a long time, but still they couldn’t settle the problem. The incident occurred one morning outside Albert Schweitzer’s hospital in the African jungle. A patient who lived in the hospital had gone fishing in another man’s boat without permission. He succeeded in getting a tot of fish. Finding out what the patient had done, the owner of the boat thought that he should be given all the fish that were caught. Dr. Schweitzer said to the boat owner:
"You are right because the other man ought to have asked permission to use your boat. But you are wrong because you are careless and lazy. Though you have the boat, you don’t make good use of it. You merely twisted the chain of your canoe round a palm tree instead of fastening. it with a padlock. Of laziness you are guilty because you were asleep in your hut on this moonlit night instead of making use of the good opp
A. he was the judge there
B. it took place at his hospital
C. he wanted some of the fish
D. he wanted to help the patient
Many superstitious people are afraid of black cats. They believe that black eats have a strange power. If a black cat crosses their path, they think they will have bad luck.
Black eats haven’t always had such a bad reputation. Long ago, the Egyptians thought that black eats were holy animals. They even worshipped them. Pasht was an Egyptian goddess who had a woman’s body and a cat’s head. Because the Egyptians had so much respect for black eats, they often buried the sacred creatures with great ceremony. Mummies of cats have often been found in ancient cemetery ruins. To keep the cats company after they died, mice were sometimes buried beside them.
Feelings about black eats have always been strong. People have thought they were either very good or very bad. The people of Europe, in the Middle Ages, believed black eats were the evil friends of witches and the Devil. Witches were said to have the power to change themselves into black cats. P
A. woman’s head and a cat’s body
B. woman’s head and a lion’s body
C. cat’s head and a man’s body
D. woman’s body and a cat’s head
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