单选题 I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the tortoise. At the end I said, "Son, remember: slow and steady wins the race. Don't you think there is something to learn from the tortoise?"
He opened his eyes wide. "Do you mean next time when I'm entering for the 60 meter race I should wish that Billy and Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep half way?"
I was shocked. "But the tortoise didn't wish the hare would fall asleep!" "He must have wished that," Sonny said. "Otherwise how could he be so stupid as to race with the hare? He knew quite well that the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did."
"He didn't have such a wish," I insisted. "He won the race by perseverance(毅力), by pushing on steadily."
Sonny thought for a while. "That's a lie," he said. "He won because he was lucky. If the hare didn't fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. That' s for sure." I gave up. Today' s children are not like what we used to be. They are just hopeless.

单选题 The writer argued (争论) with his son because ______.

A、 he liked tortoises while his son liked hares
B、 they disagreed about whether the tortoise was stupid
C、 he tried to teach his son the moral lesson of the story but the son refused to accept it

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[详细解答] 通过全文阅读，可以看出，父亲很想让儿子从龟兔赛跑的故事中得到启发，但儿子并不这样认为，因此产生争论。故选C。

单选题 Sonny believed that the tortoise ______.

单选题 Billy, Tony and Sandy must be ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[详细解答] A和C文中未提及，从文中分析，Sonny可能与其他两个小朋友曾经比赛过，知道他们的实力比他强，因此说出“你意思是说下一次60米比赛时我希望Billy、Tony和Sandy中途倒下睡觉吗”这样的话。

单选题 When the writer says "I gave up" at the end，he means ______.

单选题 According to the passage，who do you think learnt a lesson?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[详细解答] 这是一个分析题，一般而言，Sonny父亲的观点比较侧重毅力，而忽视了实力，而Sonny的观点侧重实力，忽视毅力。事实上只有两者结合才是最好的，因此选择C为正确答案。