完形填空 Hundreds of years ago in a small to...

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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 (债务) 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 a 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