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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.

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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。

  Long ago, near the frontier lived an old man.One day he found his horse missing.It was said that the horse was seen   1   (run)outside the border of the country.The neighbors came to comfort   2   for the unfortunate loss.But the old man was   3   (expect)calm and said, “ It doesn't matter.It may not be a bad event; on the contrary, I think it can be a good one.”

  One night the old man heard some noise of horses and got up to take a look.To his surprise, he saw another handsome horse besides his own.It was clear that his horse   4   (bring)a companion home.Hearing the news, the neighbors all came to say congratulations on his good luck.  5   , the old man was very calm.He added, “It is true that I got a new horse for nothing, but it is hard to say   6   it is good or bad.It may be   7   unlucky thing.”

  What he said turned   8   to be right.The son of the old man was very fond of the horse brought home, and one day, when he   9   (ride)the horse, he fell off the horseback and terribly hurt in the left leg.“Nothing serious, ” the old man said, “Perhaps it is going to be good.”

  A year later, many of the youth were recruited(应征)to fight in a war, most of   10   died.The son of the old man was absolved(免除)from the army service for his disability, so he escaped death.

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