Section A ( 10分)
Directions: Read the following passages. Fill in each blank with one proper word or the proper form of the given word to make the passage coherent. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.
There was once a forester who went into the forest to hunt, and as he ____1____ (enter) it he heard a sound of screaming as if a little child were there. He followed the sound, and at last came to a high tree, and at the top of this a little child was sitting, for the mother ____2____(fall) asleep under the tree with the child. A bird of prey had seen him in her arms, had flown down, snatched him away, and set him on the high tree.
The forester climbed up, brought the child down, and thought to ____3____, “I ____4____ (take) him home, and bring him up with Lina.” He took him home, therefore, and the two children grew up together. The one that he had found on a tree ____5____ (call) Fundevogel, because a bird had carried him away.
Fundevogel and Lina loved each other ____6____ dearly that when they did not see each other they were sad.
The forester, however, had ____7____ old cook, who one evening took two pails and began to fetch water, and did not go once only, but many times, out to the spring. Lina saw this and said, “Hark you, old Sanna, why are you fetching so much water?”“If you never repeat it ____8____ anyone, I will tell you why.” So Lina said she ____9____(never repeat) it. Then the cook said, “Early tomorrow morning, when the forester is out hunting, I will heat the water. _____10_____ it is boiling in the kettle, I will throw Fundevogel in, and will boil him in it.”
【答案】1. entered
2. had fallen
3. himself 4. will take
5 was called
6. so 7. an
8. to 9. would never repeat
10. When
