新概念英语第三册课文填空训练28 Lesson 28 Five pound too dear

- 新概念英语第三册 Lesson 28 Five pound too dear Why was even five pounds 'too dear'? Small boats _______(load) with wares sped to the great liner as she ___________(enter) the harbour. Before she had anchored, the men from the boats ___________(climb) on board and the decks were soon covered with ________(colour) rugs from Persia, ______(silk) from India, copper coffee pots, and beautiful handmade silverware. It was ________ not to be tempted=_________. Many of the tourists on board had begun bargaining with the tradesmen, ____I decided not to buy anything _____ I had disembarked. I had no sooner got off the ship ____ I was assailed by a man _____ wanted to sell me a diamond ring. I had no intention of ______(buy) one, but I could not conceal=____ the fact that I was ________(impress) by the _____ of the diamonds. Some of them were __ big __ marbles. The man went to great lengths to____that the diamonds were real. As we ____________(walk) past a shop, he held a diamond _______(firm) against the window and made a deep __________(impress) in the glass. It took me over half an hour _______(get) rid of him. The next man to __________ me was selling expensive pens and watches. I examined one of the pens _______(close). It _________(certain) looked genuine=_______. At the _____ of the gold cap, the words '______ in the U.S.A' had been_______( near) inscribed. The man said that the pen was _____￡50, ___as a special favour, he would let me have it for￡30. I ______ my head and held up five fingers indicating that I was ________ to pay￡5. Gesticulating wildly, the man acted as if he found my offer outrageous, but he _________(eventual) reduced the _____ to￡10. Shrugging my ________, I began to walk away when, a moment later, he ran after me and thrust=______ the pen into my hands. Though he kept ________(throw) up his arms in despair, he readily ______