Once upon a time, a poor traveller stopped under a tree. From his bag he took out a bowl of  1.  (boil) rice and started to eat. Nearby was a small shop, where a woman was selling fried fish to travellers able to pay for   2. . When the man finished eating and got up to leave, she shouted, “You have not paid me for your meal!”

“But I ordered nothing from you!” he said.

“Everyone can see that you enjoyed the smell of my fried fish with your rice,”    3.    (argue) the woman. “If you hadn’t smelt the fish, your meal would not have been so   4.__ (please)!”

Soon a crowd gathered.   5.  they supported the traveller, they also agreed that the wind was blowing from the shop to the place  6.  he had eaten, carrying the smell of the fried fish to him.

At last, the woman took him to a judge and after  7.  (tell) the judge the story, she insisted that   8.  the man had enjoyed her fish smell, he should pay 25 cents. After hearing the evidence, the judge asked the man to drop   9.  25-cent coin on the ground. “Here is your payment, the sound of 25 cents   10.  the smell of the fried fish.”

I know I should have told the headmaster at the time. That was my real    21 .

He had gone out of the study for some   22  , leaving me alone. In his absence I looked to see what was on his    23  . In the   24  was a small piece of paper on which were written the    25  “English Writing Prize 1949. History Is a Serious of Biographies (人物传记)”.

A(n)   26  boy would have avoided looking at the title as soon as he saw the  27   . I did not. The subject of the English Writing Prize was kept a    28   until the start of the exam so I could not  29   reading it.

When the headmaster     30  , I was looking out of the window.

I should have told him what had    31  then. It would have been so  32  to say: “I’m sorry, but I  33  the title for the English Writing Prize on your desk. You’ll have to   34   it.”

The chance passed and I did not take it. I sat for the exam the next day and I won. I didn’t mean to cheat, but it was still    35   anyhow.

That was thirty-eight years ago when I was fifteen. I have never told anyone about it before, nor have I tried to explain to myself why not.

________matters most in learning English is enough practice.

Peter’s jacket looked just the same as Jack’s，but it cost________his.

They ______ the train until it disappeared in the distance.

—I’ve got a headache again!

—Sorry to hear that. Walk to work every day and you’ll soon back in ______.

The patient's son asked the doctor the question________his father could survive the big operation.

I called the airline to________my flight reservation a week before I left for Toronto.

__________ has been announced, we shall have our final exam next month.

You are saying that everyone should be equal, and this is ______ I disagree with you.