2019-2020学年人教版必修一Unit 4 Earthquakes learning about language课时作业 (1)
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  阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

  Two brothers-one a bachelor,the other married-owned a farm whose rich soil yielded(生产)a lot of grain.____1____ of the grain went to one brother and half to the other.

  All ____2____ well at first.Then every now and then,the married man began to wake from his sleep at night and think,"This isn't ____3____.My younger brother isn't married,he's all ____4____,and he gets only half the produce of the farm.Here I am with a wife and five kids,____5____ I have all the security I need for my old age.But who will ____6____ my poor brother when he gets old?He needs to ____7____ much more for the future than he does at present,so his need is ____8____ greater than mine."

  9____ that he would get out of bed,____10____ over to his brother's place and pour a sackful of grain into his brother's granary(粮仓).

The bachelor brother ____11____ began to get the same ____12____.Every once in a while he would ____13____ from his sleep and say to himself,"My brother has a(n) ____14____ and five kids and he gets only half the produce of the farm.Now I have no one except myself to ____15____.So should my poor brother,whose need is clearly greater than mine,receive ____16____ as much as I do?