Question

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。将正确答案书写在答题卡上。

It was a cold day in December in New York City. A little boy about 10 years old was standing before a shoe store on Broadway, barefooted, 1. (look) through the window, and shivering with cold. A lady approached the boy and said, “My little fellow, 2. are you looking so earnestly(虔诚的)in that window?”

“I was asking God 3. (give) me a pair of shoes,” was the boy’s reply.

The lady took him by the hand and went into the store, and asked the clerk to get a half dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked 4. he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her. She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and 5. (remove) her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet, and dried 6. with the towel.

By this time the clerk 7. (return) with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy’s feet, she then purchased him a pair of shoes. She patted him on the head and said, “No doubt, my little fellow, you feel more 8. (comfort) now?”

As she turned to go, the 9. (astonish) boy caught her by the hand, and looking up in her face, 10. tears in his eyes, answered the question with these words: “Are you God’s wife?”

Answer 1