Question

A small weak pig "Where's Papa going with the ax(斧頭)? " said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.

"Out to the hoghouse(豬圈)，" replied Mrs Arable. "Some pigs were born last night."

"I don't see why he needs an ax," continued Fern, who was only eight.

"Well," said her mother, "one of the pigs is very small and weak, and it will never grow up to anything. So your father has decided to do away with it."

"Do away with it?" cried Fern. "Just because it's smaller than the others?"

Mrs Arable put a bottle of cream on the table. "Don't cry, Fern!" she said. "The pig would probably die anyway."

Fern pushed a chair out of the way and ran outdoors. The grass was wet and the earth smelled of springtime. Fern's sneakers got wet by the time she caught up with her father.

"Please don't do it!" she said with eyes full of tears.

"It's not right." Mr Arable stopped walking. "Fern," he said gently. "you will have to learn to control(控制)yourself."

"Control myself?" cried Fern. "This is a matter of life and death, and you talk about controlling myself." Tears ran down her face and she took hold of the ax and tried to pull it out of her father's hand.

"Fern," said Mr Arable, "I know more about raising pigs than you do. A weak pig makes trouble. Now run along!"

"But it's unfair," cried Fern. "The pig couldn't help being born small, could it? If I had been very small at birth, would you have killed me?"

Mr Arable smiled. "Certainly not," he said, looking down at his daughter with love. "But this is different. A little girl is one thing; a little pig is another."

"I see no difference," replied Fern, still hanging on to the ax. "This is the most terrible thing I have ever heard of."

A strange look came over John Arable's face. He seemed almost ready to cry himself.

一Taken from Charlotte's Web

1.Why did Fern want to stop his father from killing the weak pig?

A. Because she liked the pig very much.

B. Because she thought the pig was just like her.

C. Because she didn't know how to control herself.

D. Because she thought it wasn't the pig's mistake to be so weak.

2.What can we learn about Mr Arable from the above passage?

A. Mr Arable didn't like the pig.

B. Mr Arable didn't love her daughter.

C. Mr Arable thought the pig was too weak to grow up.

D. Mr Arable did not know how to raise pigs.

3.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Fern was born weak.

B. Mr Arable was moved by her daughter's words in the end.

C. Mrs Arable didn't stop Mr Arable when he went to the hoghouse with the ax.

D. Fern thought there was no difference between a little weak girl and a little weak pig.

4.We can learn from the reading, Fern was .

A. crazy B. kind-hearted C. brave D. impatient

Answer 1