Once a tiger was in a cage. Soon a good man went by. As soon as the tiger saw the man, the tiger began to cry. “Please! Please!” the tiger called. “Please, let me out.” “No,” said the good man. “If I do, you will eat me.” “I will not eat you,” the tiger said. “Please let me out.”

The good man believed the tiger. He opened the door of the cage. The tiger jumped out. “How silly you are,” the tiger laughed. “Now I am going to eat you.” “Wait!” the man cried. “You ought not to eat me. Let us ask others what they think.” “You may ask three others.” the tiger said.

The good man asked a tree. The tree said, “I give shade (树荫). And yet I am cut down. Let the tiger eat you.”

Next, the good man asked a bird. The bird said, “I hurt no one. Yet people hunt and kill me. Let the tiger eat you.”

The last one that the good man asked was a road. The road said, “I don’t care if the tiger eats you. People could not get along too well without me. Yet all day and all night people step on me without even a ‘thank you’.”

The tiger was ready to eat the good man. Just then a dog came by. “What is happening?” asked the dog. The man told the dog the whole story.

“I don’t understand,” said the dog. “The tiger wants to eat you because you put him in a cage?”

“No, no,” said the man. “Some other men put him in a cage.”

“Oh,” the dog said. “He is going to eat you because you do not have a cage.”

“Silly dog!” the tiger cried. “Don’t you understand? I was in the cage. This man let me out.”

“Oh, I see,” the dog said. “When the man was in the cage, you let him out.”

“I was in the cage!” the tiger cried. “In this way!” with that, he jumped back into the cage.

At once, the dog closed the door of the cage. “Oh,” the dog laughed. “At last I understand!”

The good man and the dog walked off. The tiger looked sad in the cage. If he waited long enough, perhaps another good man would come by.

46. When the tiger saw the man, he began to cry, because _____________.

　 A. he wanted the man to help him out of the cage　　

B. he wanted to eat the man

　 C. he wanted to eat the dog　　　　　　　　　　　

D. he wanted to eat the bird

47. After the tiger jumped out of the cage, he wanted _____________.

　 A. to thank the man　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. to eat the man　 　

　 C. to ask the others　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. to run away

48. The tree ____________ with the tiger because _______ to the tree.

　 A. agreed; humans were kind　　 　　　 B. agreed; humans were not kind

　 C. disagreed; humans were kind　 　　　　　　 D. disagreed; humans were not kind

49. The bird let the tiger eat the man because __________.

　 A. people helped birds　　　　 　　　　　　　　 B. it liked tigers　

C. it liked the man　　　　　 　　　　　　　　 D. people hunted and killed him

50. What happened to the tiger at last?

　 A. The dog agreed that the tiger could eat the good man.

B. The tiger jumped back into the cage and was closed in the cage again.

C. The tiger ate the good man and the dog.　　　

D. The tiger made friends with the good man and the dog.

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　　Once a tiger was caught in a cage. Soon the tiger saw a good man. The tiger began to 1 , “Please! Please! Please let me 2 .” “No.” said the good man. “ 3 I do, you will eat me.” “I will not eat you,” the tiger said. “Please let me out.”

　　The good man believed the tiger. He 4 the door of the cage. The tiger jumped out. “How stupid you are,” the tiger 5 , “Now I am going to eat you.” “Wait!” the man cried. “It's wrong for you to eat me. Let us ask others what they think.” “You may ask 6 others,” the tiger said.

　　The good man asked a tree. The tree said, “I give shade. Yet I am cut down. Let the tiger eat 7 .” Next, the good man asked a bird. The bird said, “I hurt no one. Yet people hunt and kill me. Let the tiger eat you.” For the last time the good man asked the road. The road said, “I don't care if the tiger eats you. People could not get along too well 8 me. Yet all day long people step on the road without even a ‘thank you’.”

　　The tiger was ready to eat the good man. 9 a dog came by. “What 10 ?” asked the dog. The man told the dog the whole story. “I don't understand,” said the dog. “The tiger wants to eat you because you put him in the cage” “No, no,” said the man. “ 11 put him in a cage.” “Oh,” the dog said, “he is going to eat you because you don't have a cage.” “Stupid dog!” the tiger said, “ 12 you understand? I was in the cage. This man let me out.” “Oh, I see,” the dog said. “When the man was in the cage, you let him out.” “I was in the cage!” the tiger cried. “Like this!” with that, he jumped back into the cage. 13 , the dog closed the door of the cage. Oh, the dog laughed.

　　The good man said, “ 14 I understand!” The good man and the dog walked off and the tiger looked sad. If he waited long enough, perhaps, 15 good man would come by.

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A blind boy sat there with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind, please help.”
There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins and dropped them into the hat .He then turned the sign around and wrote something on it. He put the sign back and walked away.
　　Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and ask, “Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you do?”
　　The man said, “I only wrote the truth in a different way.”
　　What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”
　　Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second one told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
　　The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second one told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
　　There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
　　Treasure (珍惜) what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
　  Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.
【小题1】From the passage we know that________.