题目内容
阅读下面材料,在空白处填人适当的内容(1个单词) 或括号内单词的正确形式。
Act One of Pygmalion tells us how the main characters of this play,Eliza Doolittle,Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering had their 1. ( fate) meetings while 2. (shelter) from a heavy rain outside a theatre in London,England in 1914.
Eliza Doolittle was a poor flower girl. When she tried to sell her flowers to a .gentleman on a 3. (rain) night outside a theatre,her terrible English caught Professor Higgins' attention. Professor Higgins,an expert 4. phonetics,could place a person by his/her remarks. He convinced that the quality of a person's English decides his/her social position. In 5. opinion,once
6. (educate) to speak properly,Eliza Doolittle could pass herself 7. in three months as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party and perhaps she could even work as a lady's maid or 8. shop assistant.
Colonel Pickering,an officer in the army,9. had studied many Indian dialects himself,came to England 10. (make) the acquaintance of Professor Higgins.
1. fateful 2. sheltering 3. rainy 4. in 5. his 6. educated 7. off 8. a 9. who 10. to make