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One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen .Suddenly, he 16 (find)that he had run out of salt. So Nick called to his son,” Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much 17 too little.”

His son looked surprised.” I can understand why I shouldn’t pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less, 18 not save a bit of money?”

“That would be a very19(reason)thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like outs,” Nick said.

Nick’s guests, 20 had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy sale more cheaply if they could. Nick replied,” The only reason a man would sell sale 21 a lower price would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect 22 the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it.”

“But such a small thing couldn’t 23 (possible) destroy a village.”

“In the beginning, there was only 24  very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little ,always 25 (think) that it was only small and not very important ,and look where we have ended up today.”

One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen .Suddenly, he    1. （find）that he had run out of salt. So Nick called to his son,” Go to the Village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much    2.   too little.”

His son looked surprised. ”I can understand why I shouldn’t pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less,  3.   not save a bit of money?”

“That would be a very    4.  （reason）thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like ours,” Nick said.

Nick’s guests,  5.   had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy salt more cheaply if they could. Nick replied,” The only reason a man would sell salt    6.   a lower price would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect    7.   the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it.”

“But such a small thing couldn’t    8.  （possible）destroy a village.”

“In the beginning, there was only    9.   very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little ,always    10.  （think）that it was only small and not very important ,and look where we have ended up today.”

 “I don’t want to write a story about girls! I don’t know anything about girls,” Louisa May Alcott told her publisher, Mr. Niles. But she was desperate for money. She seemed to be the only one in her family who could make any money. Niles had asked her to write about something she knew, instead of the romantic adventure stories she had been writing. “So I plod away,” Alcott wrote, “though I don’t enjoy this sort of thing.” It was 1867, and the horrible Civil War was over. Now Alcott could turn her energy to making money.

Alcott wrote a simple story of life in her family, their pillow fights on Saturday nights and the amateur (业余的) plays they performed. “Our experiences may prove interesting, though I doubt it.” (“Good joke,” she wrote years later.) Her book described her days growing up with four sisters in a family that had no money. She sketched (勾画) a loving mother who took time to be interested in each child, and she told of the death of a beloved sister. She portrayed her family and friends in her book Little Women. Finally, in July of 1868, she finished writing. With a sigh and a headache, she sent off all 102 handwritten pages of her book.

Niles thought the book was dull, and so did Alcott. But when she received her copies of the book, Alcott thought it seemed better than expected. “Not a bit sensational,” she wrote, “but simple and true. We really lived most of it.” Niles asked some girls to read Little Women, and they loved it.

In three months, all the copies of Little Women had sold. It was already time to print more books! Niles thought he could sell three or four hundred more copies. “An honest publisher and a lucky author made a dull book into a golden egg for an ugly duckling,” Alcott wrote in 1885. Later, with a great sigh of relief, she was able to write, “Paid off all the debts! Now I feel that I could die in peace. If my head holds out, I’ll do all I once hoped to do.”

1.Which of the following would be used to describe Alcott’s book?

A. funny         B. boring        C. magic       D. skillful

2.In which order did the following happen?

a. Alcott began writing Little Women         b. Niles asked Alcott to write about girls

c. Alcott wrote romantic adventure stories     d. Alcott performed plays with her sisters

e. Niles was not pleased with Alcott’s work.

A. a, b, e, d, c       B. d, c, a, b, e       C. c, b, e, d, a       D. d, c, e, b, a

3.When she handed her first writing in, Niles was _________.

A. sure of her success          B. happy about her work

C. unsatisfied with the work     D. unpleased with the publisher

4.We learn from the story that, after Little Women sold out, _________.

A. Alcott wrote another book              B. some girls started to read the book

C. Alcott paid off all her billsD. Niles published hundreds of books girls liked