通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
One very cold morning, my, father and I were working on the farm. I asked him how long I must stay in the ____1____.
“About an hour.” he answered.
“I wish I could go hone now—my __2__ aches.”
“I am sorry, but can’t you stay till lunch time?”Said my father.
“But my headache is getting __3__.”
“Well,” said he, “you may go home. I don’t want you to work if you are sick. Go straight home __4__ tell your mother to give you some rhubarb(大黄，一种苦药).It will __5__ you a lot.”
I went back home. However, I told my mother that my head was better, hoping not to __6__ the terrible medicine. But it was too __7__.She understood my __8__ as well as my father. So she prepared the rhubarb.
I had to swallow(吞) all of the rhubarb. Dear me! How bitter it was! I would rather __9__ all day in the field. But it cured(治愈) my laziness, and I learned that it is important to be __10__.
Friends, keep it, though there is another and a better reason.
小题1:A. field B. hospital C. factory
小题2:A. tooth B. head C. stomach
小题3:A. better B. worse C. less
小题4:A. but B. or C. and
小题5:A. hurt B. worry C. help
小题6:A. take B. buy C. make
小题7:A. early B. late C. easy
小题8:A. joke B. duty C. problem
小题9:A. work B. play C. study
小题10:A. kind B. honest C, helpful
小题1: A
小题2: B
小题3: B
小题4: C
小题5: C
小题6: A
小题7: B
小题8: C
小题9: A
小题10: B
主旨大意：本文讲述了“我”为了逃避劳动，假装头痛，父母的治疗让我明白了诚实的重要性。
小题1:根据前句所述，我和父亲在农场劳动推断本句我询问还要在田间劳动多长时间，故选A项。
小题2:跳读下文所述“But my headache is getting…”推断此时我头痛，故选B项。
小题3:理解句意，推断我头痛得更厉害了，故选B项。
小题4:分析句子的逻辑关系，回家告诉妈妈给他吃大黄，这是顺连关系，故用and。
小题5:理解句意，吃大黄能帮助治疗头痛，故选C项。
小题6:吃药take the medicine，固定搭配。
小题7:跳读下文可知，母亲已经准备了药，此时，想不吃药已经迟了，故选B项。
小题8:理解句意，我的母亲和父亲一样知道我的病情及如何治疗，故选C项。
小题9:根据上文所述可知，在田间父子俩是在劳动的，故用动词。
小题10:联系上下文所述，推断我的头痛是为了逃避劳动，父母的治疗，让我明白了诚实的重要性，故选B项。