One very cold morning, my, father and I were working on the farm. I asked him how long I must stay in the ____31____.
“About an hour.”he answered.
“I wish I could go hone now—my __32__ aches.”
“I am sorry, but can’t you stay till lunch time?”said my father.
“But my headache is getting __33__.”
“Well,” said he,“you may go home. I don’t want you to work if you are sick. Go straight home __34__ tell your mother to give you some rhubarb(大黄，一种苦药).It will __35__ you a lot.”
I went back home. However, I told my mother that my head was better, hoping not to __36__ the terrible medicine. But it 
was too __37__.She understood my __38__ 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 __39__ all day in the field. But it cured(治愈) my laziness, and I learned that it is important to be __40__.
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
