Learning Time (Narrative Text )

Long time ago a remote village, in central China, was inhabited mainly by farmers and hunters. One day, a poor farmer lost his entire livestock because of a flood. He prayed hard to God for help or his family would die of starvation.         A few days later, an old man with a long grey beard, passing by his house, took a pity on the farmer. He gave him a goose and said “ I don’t have any expensive thing to give you and hope this goose will help you to ease your hardship.” A week later to his surprise the farmer found an egg in his yard. It was not an ordinary egg. It was a golden egg. He was suddenly filled with joy.        Thereafter, his livelihood had rapidly improved but the farmer had forgotten his earlier hardship. He became lazy, arrogant and spendthrift. Strangely, the goose only laid one golden egg every six months. The greedy farmer lost his patient and slaughtered his goose thinking there were plenty of golden eggs inside its stomach. He found nothing! Poor him! Though he very much regretted for his foolishness, it’s already too late.

1. The farmer regretted at the end of the story because ....

A. the goose did not lay golden eggs very often

B. he had done something stupid to the goose

C. he became a lazy and arrogant person

D. the eggs were not ordinary ones

2.    this goose will help you to ease your hardship. (Paragraph 2).What does the underlined

word refer to?

A. This goose.                      B. The farmer.         C. An old man.                     D. A golden egg.

3. What can you learn from the story?

A. People must do everything to become rich.

B. Greedy people will get nothing in their life.

C. Animals can help people survive in their life.

D. We must listen to old men to succeed in our life.

The following text for questions 4 to 6.

Once, there lived a hen called Red Feather because the color of her feather was red. One day, the fox caught the red feather and put it into a sack. He intended to bring the hen home and cooked it for dinner.             Suddenly, he saw a dove lying on the ground. The fox was delighted to find a dove, he thought of having a lot of food for dinner. He didn’t know that the dove was a friend of the red feather. The dove knew that the fox had caught the Red Feather. He wanted to help the red feather by pretending to have a broken wing and lying on the ground for the fox to catch.           The fox left the hen in the sack trying to catch the dove. As the fox got closer, the dove instantly flew away leaving the fox. Meanwhile the fox was busy trying to catch the dove; the hen released herself from the sack and ran away as fast as possible. The fox wasn’t able to catch the dove so he decided to stop chasing. But when the fox came back to his sack, how shocked he was to find the Red feather had already gone. Finally the fox realized that he had nothing for dinner. (Taken from 366 and More Fairy Tales, 1990)

4. What would the fox do with the Red Feather?

A. Eat it.                   B. Help it.                           C. Chase it.        D. Release it.

5. What did the dove do to help the Red Feather?

A. Took the hen and put it the sack.                    B. Pretended to have a broken wing.

C. Brought the fox home and cooked it.              D. Released the hen free and flew away.

6. What can we learn from the story above?

A. Always believe in your friend.                       B. A true friendship lasts forever.

C. No one can live without a friend.                   D. A friend in need is a friend indeed.