Question

Hundreds of years ago in a small town, a moneylender lent a lot of money to a poor man. The moneylender , who was old and ugly, ____ the poor man’s beautiful daughter. So he came up with an idea. He said the poor man didn’t need to return the money to him ____ he could marry his daughter. Both the man and his daughter were_______.

The moneylender then told them that he would put a small ______ stone and a small white stone into an empty bag. The girl would have to ______ one. If she took the black stone , she would become the moneylender’s ______ and her father’s debt would be let go. If she picked the white stone, she didn’t need to marry him and her father’s debt would______ be let go. Her father would be put into prison if she refused to pick a stone.

As they talked, the moneylender picked up two stones. As he did that, the girl_____that he had put two black stones in the bag. He then asked the girl to pick her stone from the bag.

The girl thought for a while and then had an idea. She put her hand into the bag and took out a stone. ______ looking at it, she let it fall onto the path where it ______ became lost among all the other stones. “ Oh how______ I was！” She said, “But never ______. If  you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to _______ which stone I picked.” This ______ tells: Sometimes we can think about things in a _______way. Most difficult problems do have an solution.

1.A. pleased       B. attracted     C. loved        D. saw

2.A. if            B. unless       C. so          D. but

3.A. bored        B. frightened     C. relaxed     D. excited

4.A. pink         B. red          C. black       D. yellow

5.A. show         B. damage       C. check      D. choose

6.A. daughter      B. cousin            C. wife       D. friend

7.A. again         B. still           C. never     D. hardly

8.A. said          B. feared        C. thought     D. noticed

9.A. On   .       B. About        C. For         D. Without

10.A. usually      B. surprisingly     C. immediately   D. slowly

11.A. worried      B. clever        C. careless     D. lucky

12.A. laugh        B. mind        C. cry        D. complain

13.A. tell          B. explain       C. ask       D. arrange

14.A. saying       B. story        C. news       D. man

15.A. careful       B. funny       C. different      D. normal

Answer

1.C

2.A

3.B

4.C

5.D

6.C

7.B

8.D

9.D

10.C

11.B

12.B

13.A

14.B

15.C

【解析】

试题分析：这是一则故事，讲述了一个穷人欠债，而这个债主相中穷人的女儿，如果可以和穷人的女儿结婚，就可以抵销债务。而这个女孩巧妙的解决了这个问题。

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9.……上面”；B.About“关于”；C.For“为，给”；D.Without“没有”。结合语境，故选D。

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考点：故事类短文。