1.
It was a village in India. The people were poor.
However, they were not unhappy. After all, their forefathers had lived in the
same way for centuries.
Then one day. Some visitors from the city
arrived. The told the villagers there were some people elsewhere who liked to
eat frog’s legs. However, they did not have enough frogs of their own, and so
they wanted to buy frogs from other place.
This seemed like money for nothing. There were
millions of frogs in the fields around, and they were no use to the villagers.
All they had to do was catch them. Agreement was reached, and the children were
sent into the fields to catch frogs. Every week a truck arrived to collect the
catch and hand over the money. For the first time, the people were able to
dream of a batter future. But the dream didn’t last long.
The change was hardly noticed at first, but it
seemed as if the crops were not doing so well. More worrying was that the
children fell ill more often, and, there seemed to be more insects around
lately.
The villagers decided that they couldn’t just
wait to see the crops failing and the children getting weak. They would have to
use the money earned to buy pesticides(杀虫剂) and medicines.
Soon there was no money left.
Then the people realized what was happening. It
was the frog. They hadn’t been useless. They had been doing an important
job---eating insects. Now with so many frogs killed, the insects were
increasing more rapidly. They were damaging the crops and spreading diseases.
Now, the people are still poor. But in the
evenings they sit in the village square and listen to sounds of insects and
frogs. These sounds of the night now have a much deeper meaning.
1.From paragraph I we learn that the villagers __________.
A. were poor but somewhat
content B. dreamed of having a better life
C. worked very hard for centuries D.
lived a different life from their forefathers
2.Why did the villagers agree to sell frogs?
A. They needs money to buy
medicine B. The frogs were easy money .
C. They wanted to please the
visitors D. The frogs made too much noise
3.What might be the cause of the children’s sickness?
A. there were too many insects B.
the crops didn’t do well
C. the visits brought in
disease D. the pesticides were
overused
4.What can we infer from the last sentence of the text?
A. Happiness comes from peaceful life in the
country
B. Health is more important than money
C. Good old day will never be
forgotten
D. The harmony between man and nature is
important.