In the 19the century people from all over the country came here to find gold. Ma

In the 19the century people from all over the countrycame here to find gold. Many people become very rich now. They bought all theground near the bank of the river. They dug big holes in it, trying to findmore gold.

Mike Judeson was one of those who came to find gold.He bought nearly the last piece of the ground. It was a long way from theriver, so no one else wanted to buy it. But Mike paid all his money for it. Heworked hard month after month, but didn’t find any gold.

Then one night, just before he was going to give itup, it began to rain. It rained for several days and nights. When the rainstopped at last, Mike came out of his small wooden house to see his piece ofground. It didn’t look the same. The holes were not there any more, and a lotof small plants grew everywhere.

“Perhaps there is no gold here.” Mike said. “But thisground is rich. I can grow flowers and sell them for money. The women in thistown are rich now. They have beautiful houses and they will put flowers intheir houses. If I can grow good flowers here, I can make money, too.” So hedid. And soon his piece of ground was covered with beautiful flowers. Later hewas able to buy more fields until he owned all the ground near the river.

“I was the only man who found true gold here.” heoften said. “The others took their gold out of the ground and went away. But mygold is still here.”

1.Why did people dig holes at the bank of theriver?(no more than 6 words)

2.What did Mike find after the rain stopped?(no morethan 2 words)

3.What did Mike decide to do then? (no more than 5words)

4.Who would mainly buy Mike’s flowers? (no more than 5words)

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【答案】

1.(because they wanted ) to find gold.

2.small plants.

3.to grow and sell flowers.

4.(The) Women (in the town).

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