閱讀理解
When Mencius(孟子)was a small boy, his father died.So Mencius and his mother were quite poor.One day Mencius returned home from school and found his mother making some cloth(布).It was very beautiful and expert-sive.
“How much of your book have you read today?”Mencius' mother asked him.Mencius threw down his book.“I haven't read any of it,”he replied,“I played with some friends of mine in the fields.”
When his mother heard this, she picked up a pair of scissors(剪刀)and cut the cloth.
“Why have you cut your cloth?”Mencius asked.“It was so beautiful and now you've wasted(浪費)it.”“You have wasted your time,”his mother said.“Now I have wasted mine.Look at the terrible thing we have done.”
Mencius learnt a lot from this lesson.After that, he always studied hard.