1. (2022八上·南宁开学考) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Once a man and his wife worked for an old man. There was a big box in the old man's living room. The old man pointed to the box and said."There's only one thing you1 do. Don't open the box.2saying this, he left his home.

The woman said to her husband."There must be 3expensive in the box. Let's open it. Shall we?" Her husband said4to her. But the woman didn't give up her5One day, she decided to find out6was in it. Her husband didn't stop her. She opened the box and looked inside. To her surprise, she found nothing in the box. She tried hard to close it,7 she couldn't.

That evening the old man came home and found the box was8.He was very9and asked the woman and her husband to leave his home. "But there was nothing in the box." the woman said. "We haven't taken anything at all." The old man10them, "That's not important! The .thing is, I cannot believe in you!"