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A nine-year-old kid was sitting at his desk when suddenly there was a puddle (/JC^C)between his feet
and the front of his trousers was wet. He thought his heart was going to stop because he couldn't possibly
imagine how this had happened. It had never happened before, and he knew that when the boys found out
he would never hear the end of it. When the girls found out, they would never speak to him again as long as
he lived.
He prayed this prayer, "Dear God, I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat!" He looked
up from his prayer and here came the teacher with a look in her eyes that said he had been discovered. As
the teacher was walking toward him, a classmate named Susie was carrying a goldfish bowl full of water.
Susie tripped (绊倒) in front of the teacher and dumped (倒) the bowl of water in the boy's lap. The boy
pretended to be angry, but all the while was saying to himself, "Thank you. Lord!"
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy was the object of sympathy. The
teacher rushed him downstairs and gave him gym shorts to put on while his trousers dried out. All the other
children were on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy was wonderful. But as
life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred (转移) to someone else+-Susie.
She tried to help, but they told her to get out.
When school was over, the boy walked over to Susie and whispered,"You did that on purpose, didn't you?"
Susie whispered back,"I wet my trousers once, too!"
1. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means ______ .
A. the boys would never play with him
B. the boys would treat him as usual
C. he would hardly hear any praise from the boys
D. he would be laughed at by the. boys endlessly
2. After Susie dumped water in his lap, the boy was in a state of _____.
A. excitement
B. relief
C. anxiety
D. anger
3. What did the other kids do after the incident?
A. They offered him dry clothes.
B. They laughed at the boy rudely,
C. They helped the boy do the cleaning.
D. They urged the boy to get out angrily.
4. Why did Susie dump water in the boy's lap?
A. The boy asked her to do so.
B. She just did it by accident.
C. The teacher tripped her on purpose.
D. She knew the boy's embarrassment.
