One day a poor man was cutting a big piece of wood

初二英语-阅读理解

One day a poor man was cutting a big piece of wood (木头) near a river. Suddenly his old axe (斧子) fell into the water. He felt very sad because he lost his only axe. Then all at once a beautiful fairy (仙女) came out and asked the man what the was matter.
“I have lost my axe.” he said, “It fell into the water when I was cutting the wood.”
The fairy showed him a gold axe and asked, “Is that yours?”
“No.” said the man.
The fairy then showed him a silver (银) axe and asked again, “Is this yours?”
“No.” again answered the man.
Then she showed him the old axe.
“Yes, that is mine.” called out the happy man.
“I know it well enough.” said the fairy, “I only wanted to see if you would tell me the truth, and now I’ll give you the gold axe and the silver axe besides (包括) your own one.”
根据短文，判断正（T）误（F）。
(  )1. The man was poor, he had nothing but an old axe.
(  )2. The old axe fell into the river when the man was cutting the wood.
(  )3. The fairy asked the man if he lost a gold axe, then the man said “No”.
(  )4. When he saw his own axe, the man was very happy.
(  )5. At last, the man had two axes.

参考答案：1. T 由第一段第三句可知2. T 由第二段可知3. T 由全文可知4. T 由“‘Yes, that is mine.’ called out the happy man.”可知5. F 他最后有三把斧子，不是二把