动词运用(共10小题。计10分)

    用括号内所给动词的适当形式完成下面短文，必要时可加助动词。(请将各小题的答案写在短文后相应的横线上。)

Mr and Mrs Smith were giving a dinner party with 20 visitors seated around a table. Their talk was about who  1.       (have) more self-control(自我控制力 )，men or women.

Suddenly they saw a strange expression ( 表情 )  2.       (come) across Mrs Smith's face. She said something to the servant(仆人) standing behind her without 3.       (turn) around. The servant quickly put a glass of milk outside the open door.

One of the men said,  "I want to know what self-control everyone 4.      (have). While I 5.       (count) from 1 to 300, none of you can move at all. If you do,  you6.       (pay) 50. "

The people sat like rocks while the man counted. When he reached 280, a large snake(蛇)7.        (see) moving slowly from the table to the glass of milk.

Mr Smith said,  "You 8.      just       (show) us an example of self-control,  but how did you know there  9.      (be) a snake in the room?"

"I 10.        (not,  know) it was,  but I knew the milk was for the snake,  "the man answered.

"It was lying right on my feet, " said Mrs Smith.

Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning, while others read newspapers as soon as they have spare time during the day so that they can learn what is happening in the world.
Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other times, we may be in such a hurry that we only have a few minutes to look at the headlines(标题) of the passage.
Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see few newspapers.
Some newspapers are published once a week, but most of the papers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are interested in.
Today newspapers in English have the largest number of readers in the world. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily or 2lst Century as they bring us more and more information together with the Internet.
【小题1】People read newspapers in order to _____.