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I. 完形填空：

When my son Gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to   1   , I bought twenty chickens and asked him to   2    them. I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would   3   the eggs from him. However，he would have to buy chicken   4    with the money he made from the eggs. Whatever money was    5    would be his to keep. Gene was    6    ，thinking he would make his first      7    . 

After several weeks’ successful work，I began to   8    that egg production was going down, I   9    nothing about it. Then one night, Gene told me he didn’t have  10    money to buy the feed. He said the chickens had never   11    a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped   12    eggs.      

Then I asked him if he had    13    the amount of feed he had given the chickens. He was    14    , It was like he did not think anyone would ever    15    what he had done. After a long     16      - he said yes. He thought he would make more money if he gave them   17    food. I asked him, “Did you fool the chickens?”      

I was just astonished at the question in my own     18     .1 was dumbfounded (惊呆）at the    19    of it. Yes. you can fool everyone else，but you cannot “fool the chickens," because    20     , you will find out, as the saying goes, "What goes around comes around."  

1. A. cook             B. share        C. count            D. work

2. A. take care of       B. observe       C. train            D. play with

3. A. save             B. borrow       C. buy             D. keep

4. A. nest             B. soup          C. meat           D. feed  

5. A. given back        B. picked up     C. left over         D. brought in

6. A. thrilled           B. worried       C satisfied         D. discouraged

7. A. deal             B. contribution    C. fortune         D. choice

8. A. hear             B. notice         C. predict         D. imagine

9. A. said             B. found          C. thought        D. recalled

10. A. private          B. honest         C. pocket         D. enough

11. A. missed          B. wasted         C. enjoyed        D. finished

12. A. hatching         B. laying         C. gathering       D. hiding  

13. A. balanced         B. checked out     C. cut down       D. measured

14. A. delighted        B. shocked         C. tired          D. disappointed

15. A. forgive          B. allow           C. discuss        D. know  

16. A. silence          B. absence         C. negotiation      D. preparation

17. A. heavy           B. fresher          C. less           D. solid

18. A. life             B. job             C. ease           D. mind  

19. A. explanation       B. significance      C. trick           D. example  

20. A. in this respect     B. in the end        C. in contrast       D in addition