77．Besides→Beside。此处所要表达的意思是“在……旁边”，而besides的意思是“并且，此外”。

(2009·东北三校联考)

An old man is seated in an armchair at home，76.______

reading his newspaper. Besides him lay a dog sleeping77.______

soundly. After a while, the old man decided to leave78.______

home, and he couldn’t go out with his slippers on.79.______

So he woke up the dog and let it bring the shoes80.______

for him. Out of its expectation, the dog didn’t even81.______

stand up, but just barked with two eyes close again.82.______

The old man was complete puzzled. As he was wondering83.______

that what was happening, a cat appeared before him with84.______

one of his shoe. Why did the cat come here？85.______

[答案]

76．is→was。全文叙述的都是过去发生的事情，所以用过去式。

73．disturb　74.fresh　74.foreign

69．inviting　tinues　turies　72.address

66．immediately　67.restaurants　68.written

75．My cousin has collected quite a few ______(外国) stamps so far.

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74．The beef and fish smell; I don’t think they are ______(新鲜). Throw them away.

73．Our little granddaughter is preparing for a test. Don’t ______(打扰) her.

72．I filled in the form with my name, home ______(地址) and phone number.

71．The place of interest we paid a visit to has a history of ______(百年)．