Question

仔细阅读，尽可能使用本单元学过的词汇补全下面的短文

On a Friday night,I 1.        (打电话) my mother,but I couldn't 2.      (接通) .I dialled 3.        (不时地) the whole night,but no one answered it. It suddenly occurred to me that I should contact her through the cellphone.   This time she answered it,and told me that the phone was 4.        (发生故障) because of the heavy rain,which brought lots of rainfall. I was about to ask her something else when she 5.        (挂断) .I didn't know what happened. Several minutes later,she 6.        (回复电话) asking whether it was 7.        (方便的) for mc to return home to get rid of snakes tomorrow. Recently the snakes 8.        (突然) appeared in our courtyard. Mother was afraid of them. She couldn't 9.        (忍受) seeing them.

  I 10.        (着手) to find something about the snakes on the Internet. I found that the snakes like drinking milk. If I put some sleeping pills in the milk,the snakes would be sleepy. I would 11.        (抓住) them easily.

  That Saturday I tried my idea. Everything was within my 12.        (期望) and I caught the snakes 13.        (高兴地) .

  My mother was very 14.        (仁慈的) and asked me to release the 15.       (无辜的) snakes all back into the wild.

Answer 1

1. called up   2. get through   3. now and then   4. out of order   5. rang off   6. rang back   7. convenient   8. abruptly   9. bear   10. set out   1. 1. seize   12. expectation   13. merrily   14. merciful   15. innocent