“Put yourself in someone else's shoes.” is 1 idiom that means if you imagine yourself to be in another person's position, good or bad, you may understand how they feel, and why they have done what they've done.
This idiom comes from the fact 2 a pair of perfectly fitting shoes for someone may not fit another person as perfectly. So, literally, only if you put 3 another person's shoes can you feel how it is to walk in them.
Metaphorically speaking, “their shoes” stand for other people's positions. A local boy is detained(扣留) by the police for a theft, and one of his friends might 4 (private) say to himself, “I wouldn't want to be in his shoes now.” That is, he doesn't want 5 (put) into prison for stealing.
By trying to “put on their shoes”, we try to imagine ourselves in 6 (they)situations, by seeing 7 (thing) from their points of view, by thinking about how we would want to be treated if we 8 (be) them.
Harper Lee, of course,has expressed this idea best in To Kill a Mockingbird: “You never 9 (real) understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb inside of his skin 10 walk around in it.”
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1.an 考查冠词。idiom在句中表示泛指,且发音以元音音素开头,故空格处填不定冠词an。
2.that 考查名词性从句。fact 之后是其具体内容,即同位语从句,从句不缺少成分,故应用that作为引导词。
3.on 考查介词。此处为动词短语“put on”,意为“穿上”,故空格处填介词on。
4.privately 考查副词。空格处在句中作状语,用于修饰动词,故提示词的副词形式符合题意。
5.putting/to be put 考查非谓语动词。当want作为谓语动词,主语是动作的承受者时,之后需要接“doing/to be done”,故空格处填putting/to be put。
6.their 考查物主代词。空格处作名词的定语,故their符合题意。
7.things 考查名词。thing为可数名词,空前没有冠词或限定词,故填提示词的复数形式。
8.were 考查虚拟语气。if条件从句是与现在事实相反的假设,空格处作为从句的谓语动词,应用动词的过去式,而be动词应用were。
9.really 考查副词。空格处在句中作状语,故提示词的副词形式与题意相符。
10.and 考查并列连词。空格前后是并列关系,故并列连词and符合题意。
