高一英语期中考试题（2014.5）第 I 卷 （ 选择题， 共 70 分）I.完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）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（摊位）. In that village, fruit was quite 2 because of the lack of water. The man was looking around at the fruits when he 3 a big basket of some very red, very long fruit. It was the cheapest fruit in the shop, not expensive at all.4 the man walked up to the counter (柜台) and asked: “How 5 per kilo?” And the shopkeeper said: “Two rupees.” Two rupees in India is 6 . The man thought to himself: “What a 7 !” So he bought a whole kilogram of the fruit and began to 8 it. But after he tried a few pieces, he screamed: “Oh, my God!” His eyes watered, his mouth burned, and his face turned 9 . He coughed and choked and gasped for breath.But despite his 10 , he continued to stuff the fruits into his mouth! Onlookers（旁观者） 11 their heads and laughed. One man yelled: “You’re 12 , 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 13 ! I paid money for them, and now I’ll eat them. It’s my money!”You probably think this man was pretty 14 , right? Nevertheless, I bet you or someone you know makes the same 15 on a daily basis. People invest money, time and effort into a relationship, business or job. Even when experience tells them that it’s not 16 , and they know there’s little hope of improvement, they still 17 because they don’t want to waste the previous inve...
