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In a small Chinese town, there lived a poor young man named Ma Liang. He loved painting. One night, an old man with a long beard visited Ma Liang in a dream. He gave Ma Liang a paintbrush (画笔).

“Use this magic paintbrush to help the poor,” he said, “but don’t use it to help people who are rich and greedy (贪婪的), or the skill will leave your fingers and you will never paint again.”

When Ma Liang woke up, he found the paintbrush lying on the table by his bed. He painted a butterfly, and he was surprised to see it fly off the page and out of the window.

Ma Liang ran out of his little house and started painting things for people. He painted a buffalo (水牛) to help a farmer, food for hungry people and clothes for people who were cold.

A rich man heard about the paintbrush and asked Ma Liang to paint some gold for him, but Ma Liang refused (拒绝).

“If you don’t paint for me, I’ll cut your fingers off,” the rich man said. “Then you will never paint again.”

So Ma Liang painted an island of gold in the middle of a blue sea. “How will I get there?” asked the rich man. Ma Liang pointed a boat for the rich man. Then the rich man got in it and went on his way toward the island happily.

But when the rich man was half way there, Ma Liang painted a hole in the side of the boat. The boat sank into the water and nobody ever saw the rich man again.

根据语篇内容，选择最佳选项，并在答题卡上将选定答案的字母标号涂黑。
1．The old man wanted Ma Liang to ________ with the paintbrush.

A．draw some money	B．help the poor people
C．fight with the rich	D．draw a big boat

2．Ma Liang first drew ________ with the paintbrush.

A．a butterfly

B．a buffalo

C．some food

D．some clothes

3．The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refers to “________” in the passage.

A．the dream

B．the paintbrush

C．the table

D．the butterfly

4．What might happen to the rich man at last?

A．He might go back home silently.

B．He might become Ma Liang’s friend.

C．He might die in the sea.

D．He might live on the boat.

5．From the story we can know that ________.

A．Ma Liang was a clever and kind boy

B．the old man was Ma Liang’s friend

C．Ma Liang was afraid of the rich man

D．the rich man cut off Ma Liang’s fingers