Question

阅读对话及短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。有的需要加助动词或不定式符号。

Mr. White is the owner of a small newspaper. He always (1)           (try) to bring his readers the latest news.

    One day, he (2)            (receive) an exciting telephone call from a man. "There is a sudden flood somewhere in the north and several people (3)          (disappear)." Mr. White took it down at once. That evening the story (4)          (print) in his newspaper. Mr. White was very happy to see that no other paper had known the news.

But the next day, another person telephoned him and told him the news about the flood (5)____ (be) not true. So in the next day's paper he wrote, "We were the first and only newspaper to report yesterday that the sudden flood attacked the mountain Village in the north. Today, we are glad (6)

      (tell) you that we are also the first to report that yesterday's story was not true."

Answer 1

1. tries               2.received              3. have disappeared    4. was printed  

5. was               6. to tell