第II卷 （非选择题，共35分）
第一节：语法填空题 （每空填一词，共十题，10分）
A nobleman and a merchant once met in an inn. For their lunch they both 1）o____ soup. With the soup 2）_____（bring）, the nobleman took a spoonful, but the soup was so hot 3）____ he burned his mouth and tears came to his eyes. The merchant asked him why he was weeping. The nobleman, ashamed to admit that he had burned his mouth, 4）_____（answer）, “Sir, I once had a brother who committed a great crime, 5）____ which he was hanged. I was thinking of his 6）_____ （死）, and that made me weep.” The merchant 7）_____（相信）this story and began to eat his soup. The same thing happened to him. He had tears 8）_____ his eyes, too. The nobleman noticed it, 9）_____（问）the merchant for what reason he wept. The merchant, 10）w_____ now saw that the nobleman had deceived him, replied, “My lord（=master）, I am weeping because you were not hanged together with your brother.”
