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Once, lately at night, an Englishman came out 1.______
of his room into a passage of the hotel and ask 2.______
the servant to bring her a glass of water. The servant 3.______
did as he asked. The Englishman returned his room, 4.______
and a few minutes later he came into the passage again 5.______
and once more asked the servant a glass of water. 6.______
Every a few minutes the Englishman would come out 7.______
of his room and repeated his request. After half an hour 8.______
the astonishing servant decided to ask the man what 9.______
he was doing with the water. "Nothing," answered he 10._____
calmly. "It's simply that the room is on fire.
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I gave my housekeeper an old pair trousers to wash 1.______
and went in the study to read. My housekeeper usually 2.______
looked through my pocket before wash my clothes, 3.______
but for some reasons she failed to do so this 4.______
time. As I was reading, I suddenly remember that 5.______
there was a five-pounds note in the back pocket of 6.______
the trousers I had told her to wash it. I dropped 7.______
my book and rushed into the bathroom, but it is too 8.______
late. My housekeeper says that my trousers had been 9.______
in the washing machine for fifteen minutes already. 10._____
参考答案：
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1. lately-late 2. ask-asked 3.her-him 4.he asked---he was asked 5. and-but
6. servant-servant for 7. 去掉a 8. repeated-repeat 9. astonishing-astonished 10. √
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1. pair-pair of 2. in-into 3. wash-washing 4. reasons-reason 5. remember-remembered
6. pounds-pound 7.去掉 it 8.is-was 9. says-said 10. √
