2014年高考英语二轮复习完形填空 拉分题（较难题目）特训：夹叙夹议
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
An African farmer had heard tales about other farmers who had made millions of dollars by discovering diamond mines. These 1 so excited the farmer that he could hardly wait to 2 his farm and go prospecting for diamonds himself.
So he sold the 3 and spent the rest of his life wandering the African continent, searching 4 for the gleaming gems that brought such high prices on the markets of the world.
Finally, worn out, and in a fit of despondency, he 5 himself into a river and drowned.
Meanwhile, the man who had 6 his farm happened to be crossing a small stream one day when he 7 something gleaming at the bottom of the stream. He 8 it up. It was a sparkling 9 —a good size stone—and, admiring it, he later put it on his fireplace mantel as an interesting curiosity.
Several weeks later, a 10 admired the stone, looking closely at it. He asked the farmer if he 11 what he’d found. When the farmer said no, the visitor told him he had found one of the 12 diamonds ever
