There was once a farmer who had a fine olive orchard（橄榄园）．He was very hardworking, and the         always prospered（繁荣）under his care．But he knew that his three           looked down upon the farm work, and were eager to make wealth.
When the farmer was         and felt that he would die, he        the three sons to him and said, “My sons, there is a pot of gold        in the olive orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it.”
The sons tried to         him to tell them in what part of the orchard the         was hidden, but he would tell them nothing more.
After the farmer was            , the sons went to work to find the pot of gold; since they did not         where the hiding-place was, they agreed to begin in a line, at one          of the orchard, and to dig until one of them should find the money.
They             until they had turned up the                from one end of the orchard to the other,           the tree-roots and between them．         no pot of gold was to be found．It seemed as if someone must have stolen it, or as if the farmer had been wandering in his wits．The three sons were bitterly          to have all their work for nothing.
The next olive             , the olive trees in the orchard bore（结果实）more fruit than they had         given; when it was        , it gave the sons a whole pot of gold.
And when they saw how much money had        the orchard, they suddenly understood what the wise father had          when he said, “There is gold hidden in the orchard．Dig for it, if you wish it.”

A．farm B．garden C．factory D．hospital

A．friends B．sons C．relatives D．children

A．healthy B．old C．unlucky D．sad

A．showed B．led C．called D．visited

A．sent B．put C．hidden D．locked

A．wait B．cause C．make D．get

A．goods B．jewel C．clothes D．gold

A．weak B．lost C．dead D．sick

A．think B．know C．wonder D．realise

A．end B．top C．surface D．bottom

A．dug B．searched C．discovered D．expected

A．sand B．soil C．ground D．floor

A．over B．among C．round D．across

A．Since B．And C．Before D．But

A．disappointed B．surprised C．worried D．sad

A．season B．part C．distance D．degree

A．already B．even C．ever D．still

A．made B．sold C．shipped D．saved

A．come on B．come about C．come up D．come from

A．thought B．planned C．guessed D．meant