Question

阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后用方框内所给的词 的适当形式填空，每个词限用一次。

mistake	medicine	nothing	when	hang
what	frighten	but	hardly	suddenly

Nearly 2,000 years ago, during the Han Dynasty, there was a person called Ying Chen, one day, he invited Du Xuan to his house and treated him

with wine. On the wall of the room 1.      a red bow (弓). Its shadow (影子）appeared in Du Xuan’s cup. Du Xuan 2.      the    shadow    for a snake. He was 3.        but  he    didn’t    refuse the wine out of politeness. He drank the wine with his eyes closed.

When he was back home, he felt so sick that he could 4.      eat    or    drink    any    more.    He    sent for the doctor and took some 5.      ,    but nothing could cure him. 6.       Ying    Chen went to ask Du Xuan how he got so seriously ill, Du told him about the snake in the wine. Ying returned  home and thought hard,7.      he    could    not find the answer. 8.      the    bow on the wall caught his eyes. “That’ s it!” He shouted. He immediately sent for Du Xuan. Ying seated Du where he sat before and offered him a cup of wine. Du Xuan saw the snake-like shadow again. Ying Chen said, pointing at the shadow, “The ‘snake，is 9. but a shadow of the bow on the wall!” Now that Du Xuan knew 10.       it    really    was, he felt much easier. And it is very strange that his illness disappeared the next moment.

This story turned out to be the idiom—Bei Gong She Ying.

Answer 1

 1. hung 2. mistook 3. frightened 4.hardly

5. medicine 6. When 7. but 8. Suddenly 9. nothing 10. what