The Fisherman and the Bear

One fine day, an old man was fishing and caught nothing. Finally, he gave up and walked back along the shore to his shack (窩棚). When he got close to the front door, he saw it was open._ 26() A big black bear was opening his honey bottle. The honey spilled all over the floor and the bear rubbed his paw (爪子) in it, spreading it all over.

The old man went to the back of the shack and gave a loud shout._ 27()The old man saw that the bear was holding up the paw covered with honey.

The bear ran to the shore of the lake. Standing on its back legs, it held up the paw full of honey. Soon all the flies were gathering quickly all over the sticky sweet paw. Then the bear walked into the water with his sticky paw full of flies._ 28()Suddenly, a big fish came jumping out of the water trying to get to the flies. The bear gave it a swat (拍打) and it flew to the shore and dropped there. Then another fish jumped into the air after the flies, followed swiftly by another._ 29() Soon it had a large pile.

The old man got out of the bushes and down to the shore._ 30() “Well," said the old man,“That's the first time a bear has ever paid me for my honey."

A. It held the paw out over the water.

B. The bear jumped and ran out of the door.

C. He walked to the door quietly and looked inside.

D. The bear was gone and had left six large fish for him.

E. The bear often came to the old man's shack to get honey.

F. Every time a fish jumped after his paw, the bear hit it ashore.

Task 2

21. The yearly rainfall of the Samoan islands is

22. The Samoans do not need to work a lot to

23. Women on the Samoan Islands

24. The casual farming makes people feel that

25. Chickens and pigs are kept by the Samoans, but

A. up to 200 inches

B. mostly weed the land

C. make the tree crops grow

D. they are not eaten very often

E. the Samoans do not work hard

F.2,300 miles from the Hawaiian Islands

 I decided to have Yorky because he

• A、ran around with excitement

• B、touched me with his paw

• C、went after me everywhere

• D、greeted me friendly