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　　Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (仆人). He and the servant loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that.

　　One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, "Here are two bottles of poison (毒藥) and some nice food in the house. You must take good care of them." With these words, he went out.

　　But the servant knew that the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn't find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. He was afraid to be punished（懲罰）, so he drank the poison to kill himself.

　　(     )41.In the story, _______ liked wine and good food very much.

　　A. the rich man       B. the servant        C. both A and B       D. neither A and B

　　(     )42.The rich man knew that it was _______ that drank the wine and ate up all the nice food.

　　A. the cat           B. himself           C. nobody           D. the servant

　　(     )43.The rich told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because ________.

　　A. there was in fact poison in the bottles

　　B. he did not want the servant to drink his wine

　　C. he wanted to kill the cat

　　D. he wanted to kill the servant

　　(     )44.In fact, _______ ate all the nice food and drank the wine.

　　A. the servant 　　   B. cat 　　          C. the rich man 　    D. nobody

　　(     )45.From the story, we know that the servant is very _______.

　　A. lazy 　　         B. bad              C. clever 　　       D. kind