《2025年新编基础训练八年级英语上册外研版》

Ⅲ. 回答问题
阅读下面短文,并用英语回答问题(请注意每小题的词数要求)。
Once an unhappy young man came to an old man because he was very sad. He asked how to be happy. The old man told the unhappy young man to put a small bag of salt into a glass of water and then drink it. "How does it taste?" the old man asked. "Terrible," answered the young man. The old man smiled and asked the young man to take another small bag of salt and put it into the river.
They walked without any words to the river and the young man put the salt into the river. Then the old man said, "Now drink the water from the river." The young man did so and the old man asked, "How does it taste?" "Nice!" answered the young man. "Can you taste the salt?" asked the old man. "No," said the young man.
The old man took the young man's hands and said, "The pain (痛苦) of life is the salt; no more, no less. It is always the same. The only thing you can do is to be a person like a river, not a glass of water!"
16. Why did the young man come to see the old man? (不超过5个词)Because he was very sad.
17. Where did they go after the young man tasted the terrible water from the glass? (不超过5个词)To the river.
18. What is salt like according to the old man? (不超过5个词)The pain of life.

答案： 16. Because he was very sad/unhappy. 17. They went to the river. /To the river. 18. The pain of life.