Question

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

His son looked surprised. ”I can understand why I shouldn’t pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less,  3.   not save a bit of money?”

“That would be a very    4.  （reason）thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like ours,” Nick said.

Nick’s guests,  5.   had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy salt more cheaply if they could. Nick replied,” The only reason a man would sell salt    6.   a lower price would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect    7.   the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it.”

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

“In the beginning, there was only    9.   very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little ,always    10.  （think）that it was only small and not very important ,and look where we have ended up today.”

Answer

1.found

2.nor

3.why

4.reasonable

5.who

6.at

7.for

8.possibly

9.a

10.thinking

【解析】

1.考查动词的过去式，根据上下文的时态不难得出答案。

2.考查连词搭配 neither …nor 表示既不…也不…

3.考查连词  why not do sth. 为什么不做某事，可以看作是固定搭配使用。

4.考查形容词 其结构形式为 a/an+形容词+单数名词。

5.考查定语从句的连词，先行词是Nick's guests, who在从句中做主语。

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6.考查介词，固定搭配 at a price 以什么的价格。此题易错，主要是对这个搭配不熟悉。

7.考查介词 show respect for sth.

8.考查副词，修饰动词destroy ，此题多数学生知道是填副词形式，但会错在没有去e变y ,而是直接加ly.

9.考查冠词，搭配 a small amount of sth. 结构同19题。

10.考查非谓语动词，动名词表伴随。此题的结构为A, B, and C，其中A,C用and 连接表并列，谓语动词形式须一致，但B多数用现在分词形式表伴随。

【考点定位：】

一个谓语，一个非谓语，两个词性变化（名词变形容词，形容词变副词），三个连词，两个介词，一个冠词。

共六个考点。与往年相比，今年没有考代词，今年的考了词性变化的名词变为形容词。

值得一提的是，评卷场中在21题增加了一个答案for，22题增加了一个答案to。如此一来，介词for 连续考了2年。这应该是命题者当初考虑欠周全的结果。