题目内容
Bassanio was in love with Portia, and 1.__________
she also loved him. And he couldn’t ask 2.__________
Portia to marry with him because he has 3.__________
not money. He asked Antonio to lend him 4.__________
some money, but his ships were at the sea 5.__________
and he had no money at present. They go 6.__________
to Shylock to lend some money. Shylock 7.__________
agreed with one condition. He would have 8.__________
a pound of Antonio’s flesh unless he 9.__________
didn’t pay the money back on time. Bassanio tried to keep his friend Antonio accepting these terms, but Antonio 10.__________
treated it as a joke.
解析：
1.√ 2.And→But. 但是他却不能要Portia嫁给他,因为他没有钱.这里是转折关系所以用but 3.去掉with. Marry somebody与某人结婚 4.not→no. 没有钱has no money 5.去掉the. At sea在海上 6.go→went. 描述过去用一般过去时 7.lend→borrow. borrow借, lend 是借出的意思 8.with→on. on one condition有一个条件 9.unless→if. 如果他不按时还钱的话 10.accepting前加from. Keep somebody from doing阻止某人做某事
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Bassanio fell in love1. Portia, but he couldn’t ask her to marry him 2. he was poor. He had to borrow some money3. ______ his friend Antonio, a merchant of Venice. Antonio had no money then. He went to Shylock, a cruel and4.______ (greed) money-lender. Shylock agreed to lend him the money on condition that he would cut a pound of his flesh5.______ he couldn’t repay him within three months.
Unfortunately Antonio’s ships were lost6. sea. 7.______ (know) that Antonio probably had to die, Portia asked Bassanio to go to see his friend at once. She dressed herself 8. as a lawyer and turned up at the court. She let Shylock cut just9.______ one pound of flesh off Antonio, no more, no less, no drop of blood, otherwise he10. ______ lose all his money. Her clever idea saved Antonio and made Shylock give half of his money to Venice.