广东省广州市越秀区2021-2022学年八年级下学期英语期末试卷试题详情
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16~25各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。
A young shoemaker left his village. Along the way, he found some ants, who were very 1 because a bear had destroyed their home. The shoemaker helped them 2 it, and the ants 3 to help in return.
The shoemaker went on with his way and found some bees with the same 4 as the ants. The young man 5 helped them, and the bees promised to help him in the future.
Further along, the shoemaker learned that the king's 6 was kept in the castle of a witch（女巫）. The young man decided to save her. However, the witch 7 him a big bag of rice mixed with sand rudely. The witch told him that if he wasn't able to 8 the two before the next morning, he would never see the princess.
The young man felt hopeless because it was completely 9 to finish the job in one night. But his friends, the ants, came and helped him pass the test. The witch was surprised to see the two piles in front of her. Then she took him to a room where there were thirteen girls with their faces covered: the shoemaker had to 10 which one was the princess.
The young man became discouraged but he saw a bee that landed on one of them, the true princess. When the shoemaker uncovered her face, the witch was changed into a crow（乌鸦）. The two young people fell in love with each other and lived happily ever after.
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