Question

阅读填空，从方框中选择单词，带入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺，每词限用一次。

village    add     low    cook    not    salt    surprise    possible   nor    save

One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was  1  some delicious food in the kitchen .Suddenly, he found that he had run out of  2  . So Nick called to his son, ”Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair （公平）price for it: neither too much   3   too little.”

His son looked   4  . ”I can understand why I shouldn’t pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less, why not   5   a bit of money?”

“That would be a very reasonable thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small   6  like ours, ”Nick said.

Nick’s guests, who had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy salt more cheaply if they could. Nick replied, ”Why would a man sell salt at a    7   price? Because he was in great need of money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would not respect （尊重）the sweat(汗水) and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it.”

“But such a small thing couldn’t   8   destroy a village.”

“In the beginning, there was only a very small amount of unfairness （不公平）in the world, but everyone    9  a little , always thinking that it was only small and    10   very important , and look where we have ended up today.”

1.__________  2. ______________  3.____________ 4.________  5.________

6.___________7.________________ 8.____________ 9._________ 10._________

Answer 1

1. cooking   2. salt      3. nor       4. surprised    5. save

6. village    7. lower    8. possibly   9. added       10 not