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Life is often like a game of cards—you can't control your luck, but you can choose the way you play it.
A woman heard a rumor(谣言) about a 1. Then she told many people about it. So the people in the neighborhood 2 the rumor soon. The neighbor was deeply hurt and very 3. Later, the woman learned that the rumor was 4 true. So she felt very sorry and went to a wise old man to 5 what she could do to repair the damage(伤害).
“Go to the market,” he said, “and 6 a chicken, and kill it. Then on your way home, pull out its feathers(羽毛) and 7 them one by one along the road.” 8 she thought his advice was strange, the woman did as the old man told her.
The next day the old man said, “Now, go and collect all those feathers you dropped 9 and bring them back to me.”
The woman 10 the same road. She tried her best to find the feathers. But the 11 had blown all of them away. After searching for 12, she returned with only three in her hand. “You see,” said the old man, “it's easy to drop them, but it's 13 to get all of them back. So it is with rumor. It doesn't take much to spread(传播) a rumor, but once you do, you can never completely make up(弥补) for the 14.”
It's easy for us to do something 15 careful thinking, but it's hard for us to take back what we have done.
()1. A. boy B. man C. woman D. neighbor
()2. A. knew B. found C. realized D. listened
()3. A. bored B. angry C. excited D. relaxed
()4. A. very B. hardly C. quite D. completely
()5. A. find out B. hand out C. give up D. pick up
()6. A. sell B. buy C. shoot D. train
()7. A. fix B. carry C. beat D. drop
()8. A. Although B. But C. So D. Since
()9. A. today B. tonight C. yesterday D. last week
()10. A. copied B. followed C. had D. noticed
()11. A. wind B. rain C. snow D. cloud
()12. A. days B. months C. hours D. weeks
()13. A. unlucky B. important C. impossible D. necessary
()14. A. old B. good C. right D. wrong
()15. A. with B. without C. under D. behind

一、【短文大意】本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了一位女士把关于邻居的谣言告诉了很多人，事后却很难弥补对邻居造成的伤害。
1. D 【解析】根据下文中“The neighbor was deeply hurt”可知，谣言是关于一个邻居的，故选 D。
2. A 【解析】根据前句句意“因为这个女人把谣言告诉了很多人，因此大家都知道了这个谣言”，故选 A。
3. B 【解析】句意：这个邻居受到了深深的伤害，并且非常生气。根据句意可知，应选 B。
4. B 【解析】根据下文情节“这个女人想要去弥补伤害”可知，这个谣言几乎不是真的，故选 B。
5. A 【解析】句意：因此她感到非常抱歉，于是她去找一位年老的智者，想看看她能做什么来弥补伤害。find out 意为“找出”；hand out 意为“分发”；give up 意为“放弃”；pick up 意为“拾起”。根据句意可知，应选 A。
6. B 【解析】结合上下文可知，智者是让这个女人去超市买一只鸡，故选 B。
7. D 【解析】根据下文中“go and collect all those feathers you dropped”可知，智者是让这个女人沿路一根根地丢鸡毛，故选 D。
8. A 【解析】句意：尽管她认为他的建议很奇怪，但是这个女人还是按照老人说的做了。although 引导让步状语从句，意为“尽管”。故选 A。
9. C 【解析】根据前面的“The next day”可知，扔鸡毛是昨天的事情，故选 C。
10. B 【解析】结合上文情节“智者让这个女人把扔掉的鸡毛再收集起来”可知，这个女人要沿着昨天同样的路走，故选 B。
11. A 【解析】句意：但是风已经把它们都吹走了。根据句意可知，应选 A。
12. C 【解析】句意：在寻找了几个小时后，她手里只捡回了三根鸡毛。根据句意可知，应选 C。
13. C 【解析】与前半句中的“easy”相对应，故选 C。
14. D 【解析】句意：传播一个谣言不用花费太多（的时间和精力），但是一旦你做了，你就不能完全地弥补这个错误。根据句意可知，应选 D。
15. B 【解析】句意：对我们来说不假思索地做事情是很容易的，但是去挽回我们所做的是很难的。根据句意可知，应选 B。