Last year, on the night before the first day of the Spring Festival, Hugo Pang was sitting in his huge flat on Hong Kong Island. It was late in the evening, and Hugo was sipping a glass of his favorite French brandy, and listening to music on his huge, expensive music center. Pang lived alone, apart from the six maid who cooked and cleaned for him, and the chauffeur（私家司機） who drove his Rolls-Royce。
Suddenly, the room seemed to begin spinning around him. Then there was a flash of light and a puff of smoke, and before him Pang saw an old man dressed in traditional Chinese clothes. Pang looked at his brandy glass, and looked again at the old man. He was so frightened he couldn’t speak.
“Come with me,” said the old man, “I’m going to show you something.” He took Pang’s hand, and immediately the room disappeared, and Pang was standing in a field outside a village in Guangdong Province. The houses were small and the village was poor, but in front of him Pang saw a little crowd of children were playing. It was Spring Festival, and the sound of firecrackers could be heard from inside the village, while smoke rose over the roofs of the houses. Then, among the children playing, Pang recognized himself. “We were poor then,” he said, “but we were happier. We had to work hard to get everything we had.”
小題1:The first paragraph tells us that Hugo Pang was________
A．fat, rich and lazyB．busy and tired
C．rich but lonelyD．very happy
小題2:When the old man first appeared, Pang looked at his brandy glass because__________
A．he thought he had too much brandy
B．he wanted to offer the old man some brandy
C．the glass was empty
D．he wanted more brandy
小題3:The village in the last paragraph was___________
A．not a real village
B．very peaceful and beautiful
C．the place where Pang lived
D．where Pang had lived as a child.
小題4:The old wanted to show Pang that________
A．Spring Festival in Gang dong was fun
B．his money had not made him happier
C．life is better when you are a child
D．it is better to be rich and lazy that to be poor and hard working

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:B
有錢未必就幸福！
小題1:推理題。根據(jù)第一段后3行可知他非常的富有，但是在春節(jié)的時候卻孤身一人說明他很寂寞。
小題2:排除法。在那種情況下，正常人的反應(yīng)就是害怕，以為有了幻覺。
小題3:推理題。文章倒數(shù)2,3行Then, among the children playing, Pang recognized himself.可知這是他小時候的情景，那么那個村子是他小時候生活過的地方。
小題4:主旨大意題。這個故事是想告訴我們有錢未必就幸福！
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