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 __6._____ (cheap) if they could. Nick replied, “The only reason a man would sell salt at 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.”

1.found

2.nor

3.why

4.reasonable

5.who

6.cheaply

7.for

8.possibly

9.a

10.thinking

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要通過主人公Nick讓兒子去買鹽，借此教育他凡是要公平行事，保持整體的平衡。

1.

2.表示既不……也不……，Nick告訴兒子買鹽的時候既不能多給錢也不能少給。

3.

4.，句意為：這在大城市可能是件很合理的事情，但卻能毀掉我們這樣的小村莊。

5.Nick’s guests，用who引導(dǎo)。

6.，便宜地。客人問Nick，如果能以低一點(diǎn)的價格買到鹽，為什么不那樣做呢？

7. respect for…對……的尊重，句意為：任何占這種小便宜的人都是缺少對為生產(chǎn)在這種物品付出汗水和努力的勞動者的尊重。

8.，可能地。句意為：但是這樣小的一件事不可能就毀掉整個村子吧。

9.

10.，思考。每個人都再往上加一點(diǎn)不公平，并且認(rèn)為只是一件不重要的小事，所以看看我們現(xiàn)在成了什么樣了。

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