题目内容
_________ get such a book?
A.Where do you think can I | B.Do you think where can I |
C.Where do you think I can | D.Do you think where I can |
C
解析
A well-dressed man entered a famous jewelry shop. He explained that he wished to buy a pearl for his wife’ s birthday. The price didn’t matter, since business had been very good for him that year. After examining a nice black one that costs 5,000,hepaidforthepearlincash,shookhandswiththejeweler,andleft.Afewdayslaterthemanreturnedandsaidthathiswifelikedthepearlsomuchthatshewantedanotheronejustlikeit.Ithadtobeexactlythesamesizeandqualityasshewantedapairofearringsmade."Canyougivemeanyadviceonhowtogetsuchapearl?"saidtheman.Thejewelerregretfullyreplied,"Iwouldsayit′sexactlyimpossibletofindoneexactlylikethatpearl."Therichmaninsistedthatthejeweleradvertiseinthenewspapers,offering25,000 for the matching pearl. Many people answered the advertisement but nobody had a pearl that was just right.
Just when the jeweler had given up hope, a little old lady came into his store. To his great surprise, she pulled the perfect pearl from her purse." I don’t like to part with it." she said sadly, I got it from my mother, and ,my mother got it from hers. But I really need the money.
The jeweler was quickly to pay her before she changed her mind .Then he called the rich man’s hotel to tell him the good news .The man, however, was nowhere to be found.
【小题1】The man said he wanted to buy a pearl for _____.
A.his wife | B.his mother-in-law | C.his own mother | D.no one |
A.to see the perfect pearl | B.to buy some beautiful pearl too |
C.to get in touch with the rich man | D.to sell their own pearl at a high price |
A.he died suddenly |
B.he happened to be out |
C.he got $20,000 by cheating and had run away with the money |
D.he wouldn’t show up until the jeweler called him a second time |