Read and choose. (阅读短文，根据短文意思，选择最合适的答案) A man was looking for things of old times. One day he came to a village and found a blue bowl
which looked very old. The bowl was on the ground and a cat was drinking milk from it. A farmer,
the owner of the cat,was lying beside the bowl. The man thought the farmer didn't know the value
(价值) of the bowl.So he said to the farmer in a soft voice," What a nice cat you have! Won't
you sell it to me?"
"How much would you give me for it?" the farmeropened his eyes and
asked.
"Twenty dollars. Would it be enough?"
A few minutes later,the farmer agreed. After he paid the farmer,the man said,"My cat will certainly
feel thirsty.May I take the bowl so that the cat can have milk?"
But the farmer said,"I'm sorry. I can't give it to you. Thanks to the bowl,I have already sold twenty
cats. 1. The man liked _____. A. keeping old things
B. meeting farmers
C. traveling from village to village
D. buying cats2. Why did the man want to buy the cat? Because _____.A. it was very lovely
B. the cat cost more money than the bowl
C. he thought he could easily get the bowl if he bought the cat
D. he hadn't enough money to buy both the cat and the bowl3. After he bought the cat,the man asked for the bowl,because he thought _____.A. the bowl should go with the cat
B. the bowl had a beautiful colour
C. the farmer didn't know the value of the bowl
D. the cat could not live without the bowl4. The farmer kept the bowl so that he could _____. A. let another cat use it
B. sell more cats
C. sell more bowls
D. use the bowl himself5. The farmer has already sold _____ cats. A. thirty
B. ten
C. forty
D. twenty
1. A 2. C 3. A 4. B 5. D
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