题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
浙江新目标(Go for it)版2018-2019学年初中英语九年级全测试卷(十九)(含小段音频)
A businessman, who was very fond of music, was asked by a poor woman to give her some help. Her husband, a great1, who was talented in music, had died, and left her very poor indeed.
The businessman saw that the woman and her2, who was with her, were in great sadness. He looked with pity into their pale faces, and3that their sad story was true.
"How much do you want, my good woman?" said the businessman.
"4dollars will save us, " said the poor woman. With some hesitation(迟疑). The businessman sat down at his desk, took a piece of paper, wrote a few lines on5, and gave it to the woman with the words," Take it to the6you see on the other side of the street."
The grateful woman and her daughter, without stopping to read the note, ran to the bank 7. The banker at once counted out8 dollars instead of five. And then he passed them to the woman.
She was9 when she saw so much money. "Sir, there is a mistake here," she said. "You have given me fifty dollars,10I asked for only five."
The banker11the note once more, and said, "The check calls for fifty dollars."
"It is a mistake-indeed it is," said the woman.
The banker then asked her to wait for a few12, while he went to see the businessman who gave her the13.
"Yes," said the businessman, since he had heard the banker's story," I did make a14.I wrote fifty instead of five hundred. Give the poor woman five hundred dollars, because she is such a(an)15woman that she should get even more." At that time, the banker understood why the woman could get much more than she asked for.
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