Mr. White was riding a horse in the rain all the afternoon. When he reached a restaurant, he was all___1___ and cold. He saw a fire(火) in __2__ restaurant and many people sitting __3___ it. He couldn’t get a seat near the fire. He thought hard and soon he had an ___4___. He called out to the waiter,“___5__ some fish to my horse!”The waiter answered,“Horses don’t eat fish.”Mr White said,“___6__ my horse eats fish.”The waiter did as Mr White told him. The people in the restaurant ___7___ very strange and ran out after the waiter. When all the people went out, Mr White sat down at the table ___8__ the fire. When the waiter and the people __9__, they said,“Your horse doesn’t want eat the fish,”Mr White answered, “Put the fish on the table__10___ my horse doesn’t want it. I’ll eat it as soon as I warm up and dry out.”

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     Mr. White works in a big office. He’s able to deal with all kinds of matters, so he’s always   1.   more than his workmates. Of course he’s often busy and has no time to do the housework. His wife   2.   him well and does all at home.

     Bad luck! Their daughter was hurt in a traffic accident last month and had to be in  3.  . Mrs. White was looking after her there and she couldn’t go home. As Mr. White   4.  did any cleaning, the rooms were all disorderly (凌乱的).

     Yesterday morning, before Mr. White got up, the telephone   5.  . He sat up to answer it. His friend told him to write an important telephone number down. But he could find   6. a pen nor a piece of paper. Then he found there   7.   much dust (灰尘) on the table and wrote the number on it. But soon he   8.  it and went to work.

Two hours later his wife came back and looked for a sweater for her daughter. Her husband came back while she was   9.   the table. He couldn’t see the number on the table and called out   10. , "Who let you clean the table?"

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