One very cold morning, my, father and I were working on the farm. I asked him how long I must stay in the ____31____. “About an hour.”he answered. “I wish I could go hone now—my __32__ aches.” “I am sorry, but can’t you stay till lunch time?”said my father. “But my headache is getting __33__.” “Well,” said he,“you may go home. I don’t want you to work if you are sick. Go straight home __34__ tell your mother to give you some rhubarb(大黄,一种苦药).It will __35__ you a lot.” I went back home. However, I told my mother that my head was better, hoping not to __36__ the terrible medicine. But it was too __37__.She understood my __38__ as well as my father. So she prepared the rhubarb. I had to swallow(吞) all of the rhubarb. Dear me! How bitter it was! I would rather __39__ all day in the field. But it cured(治愈) my laziness, and I learned that it is important to be __40__. Friends, keep it, though there is another and a better reason. 小题1:A. field B. hospital C. factory 小题2:A. tooth B. head C. stomach 小题3:A. better B. worse C. less 小题4: A. but B. or C. and 小题5:A. hurt B. worry C. help 小题6:A. take B. buy C. make 小题7: A. early B. late C. easy 小题8:A. joke B. duty C. problem 小题9:A. work B. play C. study 小题10: A. kind B. honest C, helpful