Question

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，在每小题句子空白处填入适当词语，使其意思与短文内容一致。（每空词数不限）

There were three brothers, John, Jack and James. Every year on their mother’s birthday, they sent her expensive presents. They liked to show her how rich and successful they were.

The oldest brother, John, had the most money and he wanted his mother to know this.

“I must give her something none of my brothers can give her,” John thought. “I must find something of which there is only one in the whole world.”

He advertised in the newspapers. “Wanted — the perfect gift for the woman who has everything.”

For many days his telephone did not stop ringing. People phoned him from all over the world. They wanted to sell him “the perfect gift”. However, they did not have anything that was the only one in the whole world.

Then, less than a week before his mother，s birthday, a man came to his office. He was carrying a cage (鸟笼), and in the cage there was a large bird.

“This bird”, the man said, “can speak ten languages and sing any pop song. There is no other bird like it in the world.”

“I will listen to it, John said. If you are telling the truth, I will buy the bird from you.”

The man spoke to the bird. Talk to me in French, he said. The bird spoke to him in French. Tell me a joke in Japanese, he said. The bird told him a joke in Japanese. “Sing a famous pop song, he said. The bird sang a famous pop song.

I’ll buy it, John said. “How much do you want?”

Half a million dollars, the man said. This was a lot of money but John paid him. Then he sent the bird to his mother with a birthday card.

The day after his mother’s birthday he phoned her. “Well, mother,” he said, “what did you think of the bird?”

“Oh, it was delicious, dear,” she said.

1.Of the three brothers, ________ was the richest.

2.After John advertised in the newspapers, people phoned to ________ him “the perfect gift”.

3.The bird was ________ because it could speak ten languages and sing any pop song.

4.John phoned his mother to ask if she ________ the bird.

5.The last paragraph tells us that John’s mother ________ the bird.

Answer 1