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Once, a father and his son went to the kite flying festival in their local park. The young son became very happy seeing the sky filled with colorful kites. He asked his father to get him a kite and a thread（线）with a roller so he could fly a kite, too. So the father went to the shop at the park where the festival was being held and bought a kite and a roll of thread for his son.
Then the son started to fly a kite. Soon, his kite was high up in the sky. After a while, the son said, “Dad, it seems that the thread is stopping the kite from flying higher. If we break it, the kite will be free and will go flying even higher. Can we break it?” The father said nothing and cut the thread from the roller. The kite started to go a little higher. That made the son very happy.
But then, slowly, the kite started to come down. And soon it fell down and landed on the top of an unknown building. The young son was surprised to see this. He had cut the kite loose of its thread so it could fly higher, but instead, it fell down. He asked his father, “ Dad, I thought that after cutting the thread, the kite could freely fly higher. Why did it fall down?”
The father explained, “ Dear son, at the height of the life that we live, we often think some things are tying us down and that they are preventing us from going any higher. The thread was not holding the kite from going higher, but it was helping it stay higher when the wind slowed down. And when the wind picked up again, you helped the kite go higher and in the proper direction through the thread. And when we cut the thread, the kite fell down without the support you were providing through the thread.”
25．Why did the son want to cut the thread of the kite?
A． To help the kite fly higher.
B． To get his father’s praise.
C． To watch the kite fall freely.
D． To see what would happen to the kite.
26．From the father, what do we know about the kite thread?
A． It controls the direction of the wind . B． It makes people who fly kites happy.
C． It prevents the kite from flying higher. D． It helps the kite stay higher.
27．Why didn’t the father refuse the son’s asking for cutting the thread at first?
A． Because he wanted to give his son a lesson.
B． Because he wanted to meet his son’s requirement.
C． Because he wanted the kite to fly higher.
D． Because he wanted to make his son proud.
