Ⅳ. 完形填空。
In a small Chinese town lived a poor young man named Ma Liang. He loved 1. One night, an old man visited Ma Liang in a 2 while Ma Liang was sleeping. He 3 Ma Liang a paintbrush (画笔).
"Help the 4 people with this magic paintbrush," he said. "But don't use it to help rich and greedy (贪婪的) people, or you will never paint again. "
When Ma Liang 5, he found the paintbrush. He painted a butterfly and was 6 to see it fly out of the window. Ma Liang painted a buffalo (水牛) to help a farmer and 7 for hungry people.
However, a rich man asked Ma Liang to paint some 8 for him, but Ma Liang refused.
"If you don't paint for me, I'll cut your fingers off," the rich man said 9.
So Ma Liang painted an island of gold in the middle of a blue sea and a boat for the man. The man went to the island in the boat 10. Then Ma Liang painted a hole on the side of the boat. Water entered the boat. The boat disappeared and nobody ever saw the man again.
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