广东省佛山一中2012-2013学年高二下学期期末试题（英语
I 语言知识及应用 (共两节, 满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Once, long ago, there was a man who traveled from Persia to India on foot. He had 1 been to India before. When he arrived at a village, he happened upon a fruit stand. In that village, fruit was quite expensive because of the lack of water. The man was looking around at the fruits when he __2__ a big basket of some very red, very long fruit. It was the cheapest fruit in the shop, not expensive at all. __3__ the man walked up to the counter and asked: “How __4__ per kilo?” And the shopkeeper said: “Two rupees.” Two rupees in India is __5__. The man thought to himself: “What a __6__ !” So he bought a whole kilogram of the fruit and began to eat it. But after he tried a few pieces, he screamed: “Oh, my God!” His eyes watered, his mouth burned, and his face turned __7__ . He coughed and choked and gasped for breath. But despite his __8__, he continued to stuff the fruits into his mouth! Onlookers __9__ their heads and laughed. One man yelled: “You’re crazy, man! Those are chilies! People use them as a condiment (佐料). You don’t just eat them by the handful like that; they’re not fruit!” But the man replied: “No, I can’t __10__ ! I paid money for them, and now I’ll eat them. It’s my money!”.
