Question

I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare (兔子) and the tortoise (烏龜). At the end I said.“Son, remember: Slow and steady (穩(wěn)固的) wins the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise?”

Sonny opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean next time when I’m participating（參加） in the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy and Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”

I was shocked, “But the tortoise didn’t wish that the hare would fall asleep on the way!”

“He must have wished that,” Sonny said. “Otherwise how could he be so stupid as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”

“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted, “He won the race by perseverance（堅(jiān)持）, by pushing on steadily.”

Sonny thought a while. “That’s a lie,” he said. “He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn’t happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steady as you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he’d never have won the race. That’s for sure.”

I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be. They’re just hopeless.

1.The writer disagreed with his son because _______.

A. They disagreed about whether the tortoise was stupid

B. He liked tortoises while his son liked hares

C. He liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn’t

D. He tried to teach his son the moral(道德的) lesson of the story but the son rejected(拒絕) it

2.Sonny believed that the tortoise _______.

A. was not given a fair chance in the race

B. in fact couldn’t win the race

C. took a risk by agreeing to race

D. won the race by his own effort

3.The writer thought that his generation (代) _______.

A. had different ideas about life from Sonny’s generation

B. were more clever than Sonny’s generation

C. had the same ideas about life as Sonny’s generation

D. were more hopeful than Sonny’s generation

4.When the writer says“I gave up” at the end, he means _______.

A. he gave up Sonny as a hopeless child

B. he gave up arguing with Sonny

C. he gave up trying to keep up with the new generation

D. he gave up his belief in the moral ideal of the hare and tortoise story

5.According to the passage, who do you think learnt a lesson?

A. Sonny B. The tortoise

C. The hare D. Sonny’s father

Answer 1