Your brain doesn’t have to do anything extra (额外的) to tell the truth. You think of what you want to say, and you say it. Lying ____(1)____ much more work.

Here’s an ____(2)____ of what goes into a simple lie. Imagine you’re late for class and the teacher asks ____(3)____ and you decide to lie. You now have to either came up with a story or remember the story you ____(4)____ as you were rushing to class. So you say, “I had to stop by the ____(5)____ and borrowed a book.” Your teacher asks, “The book I recommended (推荐) last period?”

You must decide how to answer ____(6)____. If you say yes, the teacher might ask you to show her the book. Or she might ____(7)___ you to read from it in class. If you say it is a ___(8)____ book, she might ask which book you’ve checked out. So you have to be ready with the ____(9)____ of another book and make sure it’s a book the school library owns.

You give your ____(10)____ a ton of extra work! Why not just tell the truth? It’s much easier.

(1).

A．

refuses

B．

avoids

C．

takes

D．

fixes

(2).

A．

example

B．

ability

C．

interview

D．

agreement

(3).

A．

when

B．

who

C．

why

D．

which

(4).

A．

listened to

B．

made up

C．

wrote down

D．

left behind

(5).

A．

store

B．

gate

C．

station

D．

library

(6).

A．

recently

B．

secretly

C．

angrily

D．

quickly

(7).

A．

expect

B．

help

C．

hate

D．

pay

(8).

A．

boring

B．

personal

C．

cheap

D．

different

(9).

A．

cover

B．

name

C．

price

D．

size

(10).

A．

book

B．

exam

C．

brain

D．

class