Question

【题目】用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使对话通顺、正确。每词仅用一次（每空一词）

minute leave asleep decide again

One day, Mr. Smith drove his car to meet his friends at the station. When he found there was still quite some time before the train arrived, he 【1】 to take a short sleep. He was about to fall 【2】when a young lady came and asked him the time. Mr. Smith opened his eyes and answered “half past eight”. With a “Thank you”, the woman 【3】. After a short while this happened 【4】, so Mr. Smith wrote “I don’t know the time!” on a piece of paper and put it on the window of his car. But only a few 【5】 later, an old man came and woke him up, “Hi, young man, I can tell you the time, its nine o’clock now.”

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】decided.

【2】asleep.

【3】left

【4】again.

【5】minutes

【解析】

【1】当他发现在火车到达之前仍有很长一段时间,他决定来一个短的睡眠。根据前半句是过去时，故填decided。

【2】他正要睡着时小姐来了,问他时间。fall asleep固定短语：入睡，故填asleep。

【3】说了声谢谢，妇女离开了。根据上下文判断，用一般过去时，故填left。

【4】过了一会又发生了，因此Mr. Smith在一张纸上写下了“I don’t know the time!”根据句意判断，填again。

【5】但是只有几分钟后，老人过来把他叫醒了。a few修饰可数名词复数，故填minutes。