单选题
Long long ago, when the great library of Alexandria burned, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book, so a
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man, who could read a little, bought it for a few coins.
The book 22 very interesting, but between its pages there was something very interesting indeed. It was about the secret of the "Touchstone (试金石)" ! The touchstone was a small pebble (鹅卵石) that could
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any common metal into pure gold. The writing explained that it was
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among thousands and thousands of other pebbles that looked exactly like it. But the
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was this: The real stone would feel warm, while ordinary pebbles were
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So the man sold his few belongings, bought some simple supplies, camped on the beach, and began
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pebbles. He knew that if he picked up common pebbles and threw
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down again, he might pick up the same pebble hundreds of times. So, when he felt one that was cold, he threw it into the sea. He spent a whole day
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this, but none of them was the touchstone. Yet he went on and on this way. Pick up a pebble. Cold—throw it into the sea. Pick up
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Cold—throw it into the sea.
The days stretched into weeks and the weeks into months and the months
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years. One day, however, about mid-afternoon, he picked up a pebble and it was warm. He threw it into the sea
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he realized what he had done. He had formed
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a strong habit of throwing each pebble into the sea that when the one he wanted came along, he
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threw it away.
So it is with chance.
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we don"t pay enough attention, it is easy to miss a chance when it is in hand and it"s just as easy to throw it away.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[考点] 逻辑推理题
[解析] 本句句意为“但是那并不是一本有价值的书，因此一个有点文化的人，花几个硬币买下了它。”由第三段首句“So the man sold his：few belongings …”可知，这个人卖掉了他为数不多的财产，因此可推知他是个穷人，所以选poor。rich：富裕的；poor：贫穷的；kind：友善的；selfish：自私的。
【答案解析】[考点] 逻辑推理题
[解析] 句中出现了转折连词while，表示前后两分句内容相反。前一分句说真正的试金石是温暖的，因此后一分句应提出普通的鹅卵石是冷的。另外由下一段中第三句“So，when he felt one that was cold…”也可知，应选cold。故选A。cool：凉爽的；warm：温暖的；hot：热的。