Confucius'smain interest was to find out ways for the government to do a better -组卷网

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Confucius's main interest was to find out ways for the government to do a better job of taking good care of the people. Confucius is what English speakers call him now, but when he was a child his name was Kong Qiu. In Chinese, Confucius is Kung Fuzi. He was born in 551 BC (公元前) in Lu State, China, and his parents were poor, although his family had once been rich. They had gotten into trouble with the king, and he had taken away their money and their land.

And when he grew up, people said he was fair, and polite, and loved to learn things, so his family sent him to the big city, to Zhou, where the Zhou king lived, to go to school. Luckily, while he was in Zhou, Confucius got to know Lao Zi, who was later the creator (创始者) of the philosophy of Taoism (道教).

When Confucius finished school, he went back to his home in Lu and became a teacher there. When he was 35 years old, he tried to get involved in politics (介入政治), and maybe get the Duke of Lu to give him some land and money, but when this idea didn't work out Confucius went back to being a teacher. In his fifties he worked as a chief minister (首席宰相) of Lu, but when he saw that the Duke of Lu was not doing a good job, Confucius gave up and left his city.

Confucius spent the rest of his life travelling from town to town around China with his students and friends, giving advice to different rulers (统治者) wherever he went. Often they didn't like his advice! When he was 67, Confucius went back to Lu, and he died there when he was 72 years old.

【小题1】This passage is mainly about Confucius's _________.

A．students

B．thoughts

C．books

D．life

【小题2】Confucius wished to ________.

A．be a nice teacher

B．travel all over China

C．become a wise man

D．help the government

【小题3】Confucius was a smart and hard-working child.
The sentence above is from the passage. And we should put it back to the beginning of Paragraph ________.

A．1

B．2

C．3

D．4

【小题4】Why did Confucius leave Lu in his fifties?

A．Because he was not pleased with the Duke of Lu.

B．Because he wanted to travel around China.

C．Because his students and friends asked him to do so.

D．Because he didn't like his job any more.

【小题5】From this passage, we can infer (推断出) that Confucius died in the year of ________.

A．623 BC

B．618 BC