题目内容
请仔细阅读下面的短文,短文中有10个空格。请按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卷标号为36-45的相应位置上。
A man walked into a bar and asked for a glass of water. The girl behind the bar pulled 36 a gun and shot him 37 (die). Why? The reader 38 (ask) to give a reasonable explanation for the strange happening. All sorts of suggestions are made: she recognized him 39 a dangerous criminal on the run; she thought 40 was about to attack her; she misheard 41 he said: asking for a glass of water had a special secret meaning for her, and so on. All the explanations suppose that the gun was used in order to hurt the man. It is easy to be blocked by this obvious idea. In fact, the explanation is that the man had a bad attack of hiccups (打嗝), 42 is why he asked for a glass of water. The girl behind the bar was in fact to help him, 43 she knew that 44 sudden fright could cure hiccups. 45 (know) to her, the gun happened to have been put bullets in that day.