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Ain’t What I Used to Be      It has been said, "Be contented with what you have, but never too__1__with what you are." There is a story about a farmer who saw a tiger’s tail__2__between two large rocks.In a hurry, he seized the tail and__3__. All of a sudden he realized he had an angry tiger by the__4__and only two__5__stood between him and the tiger's teeth and claws! So there he remained, __6__to loosen his hold on the__7__ animal's tail in case he will surely be killed.      A monk happened to go by and the farmer called out in__8__, "Come over here and help me.__9__ this tiger!"      The monk said, "Oh, no. I cannot do that. I cannot take the__10__of another." Then he went on to deliver a long__11__against killing. All the while, the farmer was holding__12__to the tail of the angry tiger. When the monk finally finished his__13__, the farmer asked, "If you won't kill the tiger, then__14__ come and hold its tail while I kill it."      The monk thought that perhaps, it would be all right to__15__hold the tiger's tail, so he__16__and pulled.The farmer, however, turned and walked away down the road.      The monk__17__after him, "Come back here and kill the tiger!"      "Oh, no," the farmer replied. "You have__18__me!" If the largest room in the world is "room for improvement", then it is good to leave__19__of room for change. A life of change! A life of growth! And always leaving room for__20__.      It's the only way to live.

(     )1. A. relaxed       (     )2. A. waving       (     )3. A. cut           (     )4. A. head       (     )5. A. trees         (     )6. A. afraid       (     )7. A. wild         (     )8. A. surprise     (     )9. A. feed         (     )10. A. life         (     )11. A. message     (     )12. A. loosely     (     )13. A. blame       (     )14. A. at least     (     )15. A. basically   (     )16. A. refused     (     )17. A. ran         (     )18. A. frightened   (     )19. A. plenty       (     )20. A. rest         B. excited   B. dropping B. examined B. ear       B. rocks     B. read y   B. big       B. fear     B. save     B. wealth   B. teaching B. securely B. work     B. at most   B. simply   B. hesitated B. laughed   B. changed   B. much     B. sleep     C. ontented   C. urning     C. ulled       C. rm         C. ills       C. ager       C. ngry       C. erson       C. atch       C. hing       C. rayer       C. ightly     C. eal         C. fter all   C. ardly       C. greed       C. omplained   C. elped       C. ess         C. mprovement D. surprised     D. trembling     D. appreciated   D. tail           D. fences         D. anxious       D. hungry         D. order         D. kill           D. heart         D. information   D. closely       D. lesson         D. first of all   D. mainly         D. arranged       D. shouted       D. comforted     D. more           D. relaxation

Answer 1

1-5: C A C D B  6-10: A C B D A 11-15: B C D A B 16-20: C D B A C