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I watch from the wooden bench in my backyard as the water from the pipe quietly flows out onto the tomato plants. I watch the plants and rest easy, knowing the pipe is taking care of the plants. The drops soon seem to become rivers on the ground.
I see these red-brown ants, crawling(爬行) along around their home. What will happen when the water reaches the ants? Smelling the danger, these poor tiny creatures all run away from the water and rush back to their home. They spend their whole lives working together to create and make better things, but now they are facing the end of it all. I think this is just a reflection of the world. I keep watching as the water first attacks and then surrounds two ants. They struggle to stay floating as the water closes in on them, getting deeper and deeper. I try to get these two to come on my finger, but they refuse to let me save them. The water soon flows over them, as I remain helpless. Only then do they decide to climb onto my dirt-covered finger. Not until facing the moment of death would they trust one like me.
I check to see if they are alive, and both can move fine. Then I go to save other ants. However, the water washes everything away. How much I wish I could turn off this machine of death, but I cannot. I must complete my job.
It knocks me how much these little lives mean to me. When I was a small child, I would make a sport of killing them. Now, I can't hurt an insect, always thinking about what it would be like to be so small.
21. What is the ants' first reaction as the water approaches them?
A. They attempt to stop it.
B. They seek help at once.
C. They ignore it and continue to work.
D. They try to avoid the danger caused by it.
22. What can we infer from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2?
A. Behind bad luck comes good luck.
B. Where there is a will, there is a way.
C. God helps those who help themselves.
D. Life is likely to be affected by setbacks.
23. How does the author help save the two ants?
A. He turns off the water pipe. B. He helps them float on the water.
C. He lets them climb onto his finger. D. He changes the direction of the water.
24. What's the author's attitude towards those ants now?
A. Sympathetic. B. Indifferent. C. Favorable. D. Cruel.
