Mr White is a millionaire（百万富翁）. He ___1___ delicious food. He had a ___2___ cook, Mr Black. The man could cook all kinds of food. Mrs White asked him to ___3___ her last month. Then she thought she was good at cooking and didn't want Mr Black to ___4___ for them any longer.

　　Now Mrs White begins to cook for her ___5___. But Mr White does not like the food at all. He says he won't ___6___ any food at home if she doesn't stop cooking. The woman says she'll ___7___ another cook.

　　This morning Mr White broke a window in a shop. They took him to the ___8___. The policeman said,“I'm sorry to tell you, Mr White. or I'll fine（罚）you ten dollars, or you'll stay in prison（监狱）. ___9___ do you want?”

　　“I would rather（宁愿）stay in prison.”

　　“___10___”

　　“Because my wife will find a new cook in ten days!”

　　Mary did not understand such sentences as“You are yellow.”“She is blue today.”“She has a green thumb（大拇指）.”“He has told a white lie.”and so on, so she went to her teacher for help.

　　Mrs. Smith: Certainly. Now I give you some cakes. In fact（实际上）you don't like them, but you won't say so. Instead you say,“No, thanks. I'm not hungry.”That's a white lie.

(1）Mary did not understand the sentences and asked Mrs. Smith ________.

(2）He is _______ today because he was told his father was seriously ill.

(3）I don't have a green thumb, so all my plants ________.

(4）He didn't want me to know ________ of the accident. He told me a white lie.

(5）This passage is about ________.