Question

阅读下面材料，在空白处填人适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。

On a 1. （freeze）cold day, Mrs Smith’s dog was hungry, but there was not any meat 2.(leave) in the house.

3. (consider) there was no better way, Mrs Smith took a piece of paper, and wrote the 4. (follow) words:“Give my dog half a pound of meat.” Then she asked her dog to take it to the butcher’s. When the butcher recognized that it was really the lady’s handwriting, he did as he 5. (ask) to. The dog was very happy, and ate the meat up immediately.

The next day, the dog came again exactly at midday. And as 6. (usually), it brought a piece of paper in the mouth. This time the butcher did not take a look at the paper, and just gave the dog its meat, for he had regarded the dog7. one of his customers.

One day later, to the butcher’s more surprise, it came at six o’clock and brought 8. third piece of paper. Though 9. (surprise), the butcher gave him 10. he wanted. But what he didn’t know was that there were not any words on the paper!

Answer 1