1. (2019·靖江模拟) 阅读短文，从每题所给选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。（15分，每小题1分）

    Tommy was a poor man, so he tried to grow as many 1 as he could in his own garden, 2 he would not have to buy so many in the market.

    One evening he heard a noise in his garden and 3 the window. A white ox had got into the garden and 4 his vegetables. Tommy at once took his stick, 5 and chased the ox, but he was too old to catch it. When he got back to his garden, he found that the ox had ruined(毁坏）most of his precious vegetables.

    6 while he was walking in the street near his house, he saw a cart(马本)7two white oxen which looked very much like the one that 8 his vegetables. He was carrying his stick with him, 9 he at once began to beat the two oxen with it. As neither of them looked more like the ox that had eaten his vegetables than 10 , he beat both of them equally hard.

    The owner of the ox and cart was drinking coffee in a 11 coffee-house. When he saw what Tommy was doing 12 his animals, he ran out and shouted," What are you doing? What have those poor animals done to you 13 you beat them like that? "

    "You keep out this!" Tommy shouted back, "This is a matter 14 me and one of these two oxen. He knows very well 15 I am beating him!"