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A group of working adults got together to visit their teacher. The teacher was glad to see them, and they talked about everything in their life. All of a sudden, conversations soon turned into complaints(抱怨)about stress in work and life.

The teacher just smiled and went to the kitchen to get different cups—some in plastic, some in glass, some plain(平庸的)looking and some looked rather expensive. The teacher offered his students the cups to get drinks for themselves.

When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the teacher spoke, “If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. It is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, but that is the beginning of your problems and stress. What all of you wanted was water, not the cup, but we went for the better cups.”

Just like in life, if life is water, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold life, but the quality of life doesn’t change. If we only care about the cup, we won’t have time to enjoy the water in it.

1．How did the teacher feel when his students visited him?

A．Angry.

B．Bored.

C．Happy.

D．Stressed.

2．Why did the teacher get different cups for the students?

A．To get drinks for them.

B．To show off his cups.

C．To complain about life.

D．To teach them a lesson.

3．The students did not prefer to take up ________.

A．cheap cups

B．useful cups

C．expensive cups

D．nice looking cups

4．According to the passage, the underlined word “water” probably means “________”.

A．jobs

B．life

C．tools

D．money

5．What does the writer mainly want to tell us?

A．We should have a good job.	B．We should make much more money.
C．We should care more about life itself.	D．We should drink much water in our life.