Don’t shoot butterflies with guns.
Can you    36     someone running after a butterfly with a gun in his hands? Won’t such stupidity make you burst out laughing? But wait. Stop and consider how often you might have done something    37    .
A hen, Henny-Penny, lived in a forest with many other animals and birds. One fine, sunny morning, she was busy looking for    38    in the ground. Suddenly she let out a frightened cackle (咯咯叫) with wings flapping    39    . A dry leaf had fallen down on her, and she went  40    at whoever she met, “Run, run for your lives; the sky is falling.” The other creatures stopped whatever they were doing. Some ran behind Henny-Penny, screaming warnings with her, while others    41     the unfounded story that the sky was falling.
We all have    42     people like this hen. The rest of us are like the other foolish creatures who didn’t stop to verify (证实) the    43     for themselves. They shoot butterflies with guns. They just will not think for themselves. Why don’t people think for themselves? Often because of laziness, or because they don’t want to be    44     for their way of thinking.
Walking through life    45     is more dangerous than crossing a busy road with eyes closed. Our thoughts should lead us towards the light of wisdom and sense. Our thinking should be high,  46     us to the ranks of the sensible. We have been blessed with reasoning, sensitive minds. Let us make use of them and be    47     of our own minds. Don’t let your mind be enslaved by someone else. Stop, think and then go ahead.
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A．suggest B．imagine C．recall D．prevent

A．different B．extraordinary C．unusual D．similar

A．trees B．worms C．nests D．leaves

A．in delight B．in cheer C．in fear D．in amazement

A．screaming B．staring C．praising D．criticizing

A．recite B．edit C．spread D．print

A．come across B．searched for C．looked after D．cared about

A．impact B．process C．advantage D．truth

A．desperate B．good C．regretful D．responsible

A．speechlessly B．hopelessly C．mindlessly D．homelessly

A．declining B．raising C．wiping D．smoothing

A．masters B．slaves C．authors D．employees