Instead of sending her away or 30 with her, he said to her, “Fetch me a mustard (芥末) seed from a home that has never 31 sorrow. We will use it to drive the sorrow out of your life.” The woman went off at once in 32 of that magical mustard seed.
She came first to a splendid apartment, 33 at the door, and said in a (n) 34 voice, “I am looking for a home that has never known sorrow. Is this such a (n) 35 that I want? It is very important to me.”
36 , she didn’t get what she wanted, even without a single word of 37 . They told her that she had come to the wrong place. And they began to 38 all the tragic things that recently had happened to them.
The woman said to herself, “Who is better able to help these poor, 39 people than I, though I also have had misfortune of my own?” She 40 to comfort them till they 41 . Then she went on searching for a home that had never known sorrow. But 42 she turned up, in small cottages or in other places, she found one 43 after another of sadness and misfortune. She became so 44 in helping other people out of their sorrow that finally she forgot about her quest for t he special mustard seed, in fact, never 45 that it had driven the sorrow out of her life.
26. A. joy B. danger C. belief D. sorrow
27. A. envied B. considered C. respected D. treated
28. A. strange B. magical C. valuable D. important
29. A. reward B. supply C. provide D. award
30. A. quarreling B. discussing C. reasoning D. arguing
31. A. suffered B. known C. obtained D. forgotten
32. A. honor B. favor C. need D. search
33. A. knocked B. broke C. stood D. pointed
34. A. excited B. confident C. sad D. urgent
35. A. place B. answer C. apartment D. person
36. A. Luckily B. Immediately C. Gradually D. Unfortunately
37. A. praise B. respect C. comfort D. en couragement
38. A. exchange B. describe C. simplified D. decorated
39. A. unfortunate B. unfriendly C. unimportant D. unfamiliar
40. A. planned B. managed C. continued D. stayed
41. A. settle down B. break down C. calm down D. get dwon
42. A. wherever B. whatever C. however D. whenever
43. A. excuse B. tale C. lie D. reason
44. A. curious B. puzzled C. worried D. involved
45. A. recognizing B. realizing C. remembering D. wondering
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One evening I went out and left my 17-year-old son and his girlfriend in charge of his 8-year-old brother and 4-year-old sister. I left with complete confidence that the older children would do a wonderful job of babysitting the younger children and the younger children would do a wonder ful job of accompanying(陪伴)the older ones. Later, I discovered that I was completely wrong.
I had decided to return home earlier than planned so that my son and his girlfriend could go out. I called home with this happy news. But instead of hearing his cheerful, grateful voice on the other end of the line, all I heard was the sound of a telephone ringing.
It was, I should point out, after 10 p.m., when the two younger children should have been in bed, and when the two older children should have been answering the phone. “I’ll give him a lesson, ” I said.I decided they must be outside.Why they might be outside at 10:30 on a winter night I had no idea, but it was the only explanation I could come up with.
Finally, in desperation(绝望), I called his girlfriend’s house. His girlfriend answered. “Yes,” she said brightly, “He’s right here.”
He came on the phone.I was not my usual calm, patient. After all, one of the rules of survival for modern parents is that you can’t trust modern teenagers. “Where are the children?” I said. He said they were with him. They had done nothing wrong. My son had taken the younger children over to his girlfriend’s house just for ice cream and cake. Well, it turns out that I shouldn’t have believed it. It was only part of the truth.
The following Saturday evening we were at my parents’ home, celebrating my birthday. My oldest son gave me the children’s gifts — a series of lovely color photographs of my children, dressed in their best clothes, and wearing their most wonderful expressions. They are pictures to treasure a lifetime, all taken by the father of my son’s girlfriend.
46. The author went out and left her eldest son in charge of the younger children because________.
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