2017年pets1公共英語一級閱讀理解練習(xí)（19）
2017年pets1公共英語一級閱讀理解練習(xí)（19）
Once upon a time, a rich man and a poor tailor happened to live in the same house. The rich man lived upstairs and the poor man lived downstairs,.
The tailor liked to sing while he worked. He sang one song after another. But the rich man liked to sleep and singing bothered him.
One day the rich man said, “Tailor, I will give you a bad full of money every day if you stop singing.”
“Fine,” said the poor tailor. And so the tailor stopped singing and he became richer and richer. But the more money he got from the rich man, the more unhappy he became, because he wanted very much to sing again.
Finally he brought all his money back to the rich man. “Here,” he said, “take all your money, I can’t be happy if I can’t sing.”
He gave the money back to the rich man and went away singing. He sang and sang and he was happy again.
1. The rich man and the poor tailor lived in _________.
A the same town B the same house C the same village
2. The tailor’s singing made the rich man__________.
A happy B worried C pleasant
3. The rich man gave the poor tailor a lot of money, because________.
A he liked to listed to the singing
B he hated the singing C he wanted to stop the tailor’s singing
4. At first the tailor___________ the money.
A gave B borrowed C took
5. Why did the poor tailor return all the money to the rich man? Because_________.
A when he couldn’t sing, he became very unhappy
B he didn’t like it C he had to do so
