精品文档---下载后可任意编辑八年级英语阅读理解专项练习题 AOne day a rich man and a businessman met in a restaurant
For their lunch they both ordered soup
When it was brought, the rich man tasted it, but the soup was so hot that he burned his mouth and tears came into his eyes
The businessman asked him why he was crying
The rich man didn’t want to tell the truth and he told a lie,“Sir, I had a brother who was killed last year
I was thinking of his death, and that made me cry
” The businessman believed his story and began to eat his soup
He also burned his mouth so much that he had tears in his eyes
The rich man noticed it and asked the businessman,“Sir, why do you cry”The businessman, who now saw that the rich man had cheated him, answered,“Oh, I’m crying because you were not killed together with your brother