Cloze test

　　(Tom bought shoes from the shoe factory and tried to sell them to people.)

　　There were not many 1 in small villages. People there 2 to go to town to buy their shoes. So Tom 3 a lot of shoes there.

　　One day Tom 4 along the street. He stopped in front of a house. There was a small boy beside the door. Tom 5 the window of his lorry（货运汽车）and called to the boy,“ Hello! Is your mother at home?” The boy looked at Tom. Then he answered,“ 6 .”

　　“That's 7 ,” Tom said. He got off his lorry, 8 some shoes and went to the door of the house. He knocked at the door and waited for a few minutes, 9 nobody came to answer the door. Tom knocked again and again for a few more minutes, but still no one answered. Then Tom looked at the boy and said angrily,“Your mother is not at home!”“She is!” the boy said.

　　“ 10 didn't she open the door?”

　　“This isn't our house,” the boy shouted.

Flies (苍蝇) usually live in the dirty places.

Let’s look at a fly, and see where it   27 . First, it flies out of the window,   28   it stands on   29  dirty things in the street, and then it flies back to the house and walks over your   30 .?

When a fly walks on the dirty things in the street, its   31   have got some germs  32 them. When the fly walks on your food with its dirty feet, it   33  the germs on your food.

What can you   34  this?

First, we learn that we mustn’t leave dirty things in the street or on the ground near  35 . Second, we learn that all food must be covered so that flies may not   36  it. Third, we learn that flies often carry germs and we must kill them as soon as we see them.