题目内容
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Once upon a time, a poor traveler 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, 2.______ a woman was selling fried fish to travelers able to pay for it. When the man finished eating and got up to leave, she shouted, “You have not paid me for your meal!”
“But I ordered 3.______ from you!” he said.
“4.______ everyone sees, you enjoyed the smell of my fried fish with your rice,” argued the woman. “If you hadn’t smelt the fish, your meal would not have been so5._______ (please)!”
Soon a crowd gathered, 6._______ supported the traveler, but also agreed that the wind was blowing from the shop to the place where he had eaten, 7.______ (carry) the smell of the fried fish to him.
At last, the woman took him to a judge and after8._______ (tell) the judge the story, she insisted that 9._______ the man had enjoyed her fish smell, he should pay 25 cents. After hearing the evidence, the judge asked the man to drop a 25-cent coin on the ground. “Here is your payment, the sound of 25 cents 10._______ the smell of the fried fish.”