题目内容
Once upon a time, a poor traveller 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, where a woman was selling fried fish to travellers able to pay for 2 . When the man finished eating and got up to leave, she shouted, “You have not paid me for your meal!”
“But I ordered nothing from you!” he said.
“Everyone can see that you 3 (enjoy) 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 so 4 (please)!”
Soon a crowd gathered. 5 they supported the traveller, they also agreed that the wind was blowing from the shop to the place 6 he had eaten, carrying the smell of the fried fish to him.
At last, the woman took him to a judge and after 7 (tell) the judge the story, she insisted that 8 the man had enjoyed her fish smell, he should pay 25 cents. After hearing the evidence, the judge asked the man to drop 9 25-cent coin on the ground. “Here is your payment, the sound of 25 cents 10 the smell of the fried fish.”
1. boiled 2. it / them 3. enjoyed 4 pleasant / pleasing5 Though / Although
6 where 7 telling 8. since / as / because 9. a 10. for