Once an unhappy young man came to an old man because he was very sad. He asked how to be happy.
The old man told the unhappy young man to put a small bag of salt(鹽) into a glass of water and then to drink it. “How does it taste?” the old man asked. “Terrible,” answered the young man. The old man smiled and asked the young man to take another small bag of salt and put it into the river.
They walked without any words to the river and the young man put the salt into the river. Then the old man said, “Now drink the water from the river.” The young man did so and the old man asked, “How does it taste?” “Nice!” answered the young man. “Can you taste the salt?” asked the old man. “No,” said the young man.
The old man took the young man’s hands and said, “The pain(痛苦) of life is the salt; no more, no less. It is always the same, the only thing you can do is to be a person like a river, not a glass!”
【小題1】Why did the young man come to see the old man?
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【小題2】What did the old man tell the young man to do first?
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【小題3】Where did they go after the young man taste the terrible water from the glass?
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【小題4】What is like salt according to(根據(jù)) the old man?
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【小題5】 What kind of person should we be?
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【小題1】Because he was unhappy./ Because he wanted to ask how to be happy.
【小題2】The old man told him to put a small bag of salt(鹽) into a glass of water (and then to drink it).
【小題3】They went to a river.
【小題4】The pain of life.
【小題5】We should be a person like a river.

解析試題分析：這篇短文講的是一個年輕人向一個老人詢問幸福的秘訣，老人用碗中的鹽和河中的鹽的例子來告訴他，痛苦是一定的，關(guān)鍵是你對待痛苦的態(tài)度和胸懷。
【小題1】根據(jù)文中信息because he was very sad 可知問題的答案是Because he was unhappy./ Because he wanted to ask how to be happy.
【小題2】根據(jù)問題含義（一開始老人告訴年輕人做什么？）可知答案是The old man told him to put a small bag of salt(鹽) into a glass of water (and then to drink it).
【小題3】根據(jù)問題含義（在年輕人嘗了碗中難吃的鹽水之后他們?nèi)チ四膬海浚┛芍鸢甘荰hey went to a river.
【小題4】根據(jù)文中提示老人所用的鹽是指代生活中的痛苦，所以答案是The pain of life.
【小題5】根據(jù)文中提示問題答案應是We should be a person like a river.
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