题目内容：

One day, a farmer was walking ______ a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it ______.” Thomas said, “It ______.” His father said ________ but he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and ______ the few pennies he bought some cherries.

The father and the son continued their way. ______ was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too _______ to walk on.________,his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up ______ and ate it. After a while, his father dropped _______ and once again, his son lost no time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.

And so they _______. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten the cherries up, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you has bent(弯腰) down ______ to pick up that horseshoe, it wasn’t _______ for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that he who does not _______ the little things will find that he cannot do the _______ things.”

1.A. through    B. along    C. straight    D. across

2.A. in the rubbish bin    B. under the tree    C. in your bag    D. on your back

3.A. is worth little    B. is valuable    C. costs much    D. is useful

4.A. something    B. everything    C. anything    D. nothing

5.A. used    B. with    C. took    D. in

6.A. the moon    B. the clouds    C. the sun    D. the earth

7.A. thirsty    B. tired    C. happy    D. sad

8.A. At this time    B. At first    C. Finally    D. In the beginning

9.A. slowly    B. quickly    C. carefully    D. suddenly

10.A. some cherries    B. all the cherries    C. another cherry    D. a lot of cherries

11.A. stopped    B. sat    C. smiled    D. went on

12.A. early    B. late    C. hurriedly    D. happily

13.A. necessary    B. important    C. useful    D. lucky

14.A. talk about    B. look about    C. think about    D. complain about

15.A. small    B. great    C. large    D. interesting