Nasreddin was a poor man, so he tried to grow __1__ he could in his own garden, so that he would not have to buy so many in the market.

　　One evening he heard a noise in his garden and looked out of the window. A white ox had got into the garden and __2__ his vegetables. Nasreddin at once took his stick, ran out and chased the ox, but he was too old to catch it. When he got back to his garden, he found that the ox had ruined most of his precious vegetables.

　　__3__, while he __4__ in the street near his house, he saw a cart with two white oxen which looked very much like the one that __5__ his vegetables. He was carrying his stick with him, __6__ he at once began to beat the two oxen with it. As neither of them looked more like the ox that had eaten his vegetables than the other, he beat both of them equally hard.

　　The owner of the ox and cart was drinking coffee in a __7__ coffee-house. When he saw __8__ Nasreddin was doing __9__ his animals, he ran out and shouted, “What are you doing? What have those poor animals done to you for you to beat them like that?”

　　“You keep out this!” Nasreddin shouted back, “This is a matter between me and one of these two oxen. He knows very well __10__ I am beating him!”

　　1. A. so many vegetables B. many vegetables

　　C. as many as vegetables D. as many vegetables as

　　2. A. was eating B. ate C. had eaten D. has eaten

　　3. A. Next day B. Next morning

　　C. Last morning D. The next morning

　　4. A. walks B. waked C. was walking D. walking

　　5. A. ruined B. had eaten C. ate D. had ruin

　　6. A. so B. and C. but D. or

　　7. A. beside B. nearby C. near D. near by

　　8. A. that B. which C. why D. what

　　9. A. for B. to C. with D. on

　　10.A. reason B. when C. why D. because

　　名師點評

　　這是一個笑話，貧農Nasreddin在街上碰到兩頭牛，搞不清是哪一頭毀壞了他家的菜園，于是用棒子將兩頭牛一起抽打，牛主人制止時，他卻強詞奪理，無理取鬧。

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