There once was a boy who loved eating sweets. He ___36____ asked for sweets from his father. His father was a ____37____ man and they lived in a very old house. He could not always ___38____sweets for his son. But the little boy did not ___39___ this, and demanded sweets all the time.
The boy’s father thought hard about ____40____ to stop the child asking for so many sweets. There was a very holy(神圣的) man living nearby at that time. The boy’s father had a(n)____41___.He decided to take the boy to the great man who might ____42____ persuade(说服) the child to stop asking for sweets all the time. The boy and his father went along to the ____43____ man. The father said to him, “Oh, great saint, could you ask my son to stop asking for sweets which I cannot afford?” The great man was in ____44_____, because he liked sweets himself. How could he ask the boy to give up asking for sweets? The holy man told the father to ____45____ his son back after one month.
During that month, the holy man gave up eating sweets, and when the boy and his father ____46____after a month, the holy man said to the boy “My dear child, will you stop asking for sweets which your father cannot afford to give you?” ____47_____ , the boy stopped asking for sweets.
The boy’s ___48_____ asked the saint, “Why did’t you ask my son to give up asking for sweets ____49____ we came to you a month ago?” The saint replied, “How could I ask a boy to give up sweets when I loved sweets myself. In the last month I gave up eating sweets.”
A person’s ____50___ is much more powerful than just his words.
( )36. A. always B. never C. hardly D. seldom
( )37. A. rich B. honest C. kind D. poor
( )38. A. make B. accept C. afford D. find
( )39. A. ignore B. understand C. remember D. change
( )40. A. what B. where C. why D. how
( )41. A. excuse B. surprise C. idea D. proverb
( )42. A. can B. was able to C. be able to D. could
( )43. A. young B. strong C. great D. ugly
( )44. A. difficulty B. peace C. danger D. tears
( )45. A. call B. turn C. get D. bring
( )46. A. returned B. asked C, left D. disappeared
( )47. A. Up to now B. Sooner or later C. In other words D. From then on
( )48. A. sister B. brother C. father D. mother
( )49. A. when B. because C. until D. though
( )50. A. success B. history C. future D. example