Monkeysarecleverandlivelybuttheyarenaughtyandgreedy(贪婪的)aswell.Whenvertheyfinddeliciousfoodtheywilleatenough.What’smoretheywilltakeitwhentheyleave.Theyhavesuffered(吃亏)alotbecauseofthis.

Question

Monkeys are clever and lively but they are naughty and greedy (贪婪的) as well. Whenver they find delicious food they will eat enough.  What’s more they will take it when they leave. They have suffered (吃亏) a lot because of this. But they never change this way.

In India people use monkey’s greed to catch them. Do you know how they can catch monkeys? Here are some instructions.

◆               Make a hole in a big pumpkin (南瓜). The hole must be just right     ----neither too big nor too small.

◆               Put some jujubes (枣) in the hole.

◆               Leave the pumpkin under a tree. Make sure there are some monkeys in   the tree.

◆               Hide yourself and watch the monkeys.

As soon you leave the monkeys can’t wait to come down to the pumpkin. When they find a hole in the pumpkin they don’t know what’s in it and one of them can't help putting its hand into the hole to find what on earth there is. When it touches the jujubes it will clench (攥紧) some of them in its hand. As a result it isn’t able to take its fist (拳) out of the hole. You can’t come close until this time. Will the monkey drop off the pumpkin? Don’t worry. It prefers the pumpkin than its life. It will run with the pumpkin clenching its fist more tightly. In the end it is caught helplessly.

1.Monkeys haven’t changed their way of doing with nice food because they are

        .

   A. clever     B. lively     C. greedy    D.naughty

2.“The hole must be just right” means it is      .

   A. big enough for the monkey to put its hand in

   B. smaller than a monkey’s hand

   C. bigger than a monkey’s fist

   D. bigger than a monkey’s hand but smaller than its fist

3.Seeing the hole in the pumpkin a monkey will      .

   A. be interested in    B. be afraid of   

C. run away at once   D. take the pumpkin away in arms

4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

   A. Indians often catch the monkeys in this way.

   B. sometimes monkys are stupid.

   C. as soon as the monkeys comes to the pumpkin you can rush to catch it.

   D. In India monkeys like pumpkins every much.

5. What should we learn from the passage?

   A. weshould catch monkeys in this way.

   B. One mustn’t be greedy.

   C. We should protect monkeys.

   D. Come up with another way to catch monkeys.

 

Answer 1

  1.C 2.D 3.A 4.A 5.B

【主旨大意】可爱、淘气的猴子由于贪婪的习性不该，印度的人们便利用其不改的习性来捉猴子。 1. 细节理解题 由文章第一段可知，猴子可爱、淘气，“Whenver they find delicious food they will eat enough.  What’s more they will take it when they leave”，可知猴子对美食有贪婪的习性。 2. 整体理解题 通读下文可知，洞必须够大让猴子的手进去，但不能太大让它的拳头出来。 3. 细节理解题 由下文“When they find a hole in the pumpkin they don’t know what’s in it and one of them can't help putting its hand into the hole to find what on earth there is”“他们不知南瓜的里面有什么，他们迫不及待的把手伸进去，来看看里面到底有什么”。 4.整体理解题 通读全文可知由于猴子的贪婪不改，印度人经常利用此法来逮猴子。 5.归纳总结题  猴子由于贪婪，而招致被捉。喻示人们不能太贪心。