题目内容：

    When the two brothers were old enough to marry, their father was not happy because their family wasn’t so rich that the brothers often argued with each other about some small interest. He really didn’t know how they would fight when they broke up the family and lived apart(分开的).

One day, their father was sick, lying in bed and staring(凝视) at something, when the elder son came over to wish him good health. His father said, “Ask your brother to come here, and I have something to say.”

The younger brother arrived. Their father sat up and said, “I don’t know how the disease hit. I’m feeling terribly unwell.” The brothers persuaded (劝说) their father not to worry about it, but he shook his head, “In fact, I don’t worry about the disease because I can manage it, but if you are in disorder with each other in the future, it will be our family’s disease and no one can deal with it.” The brothers felt ashamed.

The father got out of the bed, pointed to some chickens in the yard and said, “Look at them sitting there in peace with each other, isn’t it good?” Then their father brought out a bowl of corns, went quietly behind the house and spread most of them on the ground. Then he went back to the yard with only a few corns left and flung(挥动) at the chickens. As soon as they saw the corns, the chicken jumped up, waved their wings and fought for it. The peaceful world was now filled with smoke of gunpowder for some corns.

The brothers smiled and understood what their father was driving at.Their father added, “Both of you saw more corns are behind the house…” As a matter of fact, aren’t there many troubles in life because God spread some corns before us?

1.How did the old man think of his illness?

A.It was serious, but he could go through it.

B.It was serious, so he couldn’t live long.

C.It was serious, and he could hardly stand it.

D.It was not serious, and he thought of it as nothing.

2.Why did the old man spread most of the corns on the ground?

A.Because the chickens had already had enough.

B.Because he wanted the chickens to fight for the rest.

C.Because he wanted to show the terrible scene to his sons.

D.Because he wanted his sons to grow more corns next year.

3.What does the writer want to tell us?

A.We should find new ways to deal with troubles in life.

B.People should be hard-working and live peacefully together.

C.There are always bad things in our life which we should face.

D.The disease of a family is more serious than the disease of a person.