IV. Sentence Completion: Choose the most appropriate answer.
When I was a very small boy I was made to learn by heart certain of the fables of La Fontaine,
and the moral of each was carefully explained to me. Among those I learnt was The Ant and the
Grasshopper, which is devised to bring home to the young the useful lesson 33 . In this
admirable fable, the ant spends a laborious summer gathering its winter store, 34 .
Winter comes and the ant is comfortably provided for, 35 : he goes to the ant and begs
for a little food. Then the ant gives him her class answer:
“What were you doing in the summer time?”
“Saving your presence, I sang, I sang all day, all night.”
“You sang. Why, then go and dance.”
I could not help thinking of this fable when the other day I saw George Ramsay lunching by himself
in a restaurant. I never say anyone wear an expression of such deep gloom. He was staring into space.
He looked as though the burden of the whole world sat on his shoulders. I was sorry for him: I
suspected at once 36 .
(A) but the grasshopper has an empty larder
(B) that his unfortunate brother had been causing trouble again
(C) that in an imperfect world industry is rewarded and giddiness punished
(D) while the grasshopper sits on a blade of grass singing to the sun
【題組】35.
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