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Holidays are a wonderful time of the year! Many people celebrate them by giving gifts.
"Oh,you really shouldn't have(你太客气了)!" is a common reply when someone hands you a gift. We say this even when we are thinking to ourselves,"Yeah! I got a gift!" Well,who doesn't like to get a gift?
Sometimes the gift is perfect. "It's just what I want!" you might say. However,sometimes it's not. We've all been there. We happily open a gift,wondering what's inside. Then we see it and we feel we don't like it. But we mustn't criticize(批评)the gift or tell why we don't like it. In other words,"don't look a gift horse in the mouth".
This saying is really old. People used it when gifting a horse was a common thing. To understand this saying,we must understand a bit about the horse's teeth. They grow over time. So,checking the length(长度)of the horse's teeth is a way of knowing its age. Sure enough,a young horse makes a better gift than an old one. However,checking the horse's mouth would be a sign of mistrust(不信任)towards the gift giver and it might make the giver feel embarrassed or even angry! The polite thing to do is to simply say "thank you" and accept the gift horse.
Horses aren't common gifts now,but we commonly use this saying. Next time you get a gift that's less than perfect,remember that it's impolite to look a gift horse in the mouth. After all,the thought of gift-giving rather than the gift itself is important.
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)4. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. We all have been to gift shops.
B. We all have got the experience of buying gifts.
C. We all have given someone a gift that's not good.
D. We all have got the experience of receiving a gift that we don't like.
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)5. Why does the writer tell us about the horse's teeth in Paragraph 4?
A. To tell us how to keep a horse.
B. To explain to us how to tell a horse's age.
C. To help us better understand the saying.
D. To show us how to choose a horse as a gift.
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)6. We can infer that the saying "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" is for ______.
A. gift receivers B. gift givers C. horse owners D. horse trainers