先通读下面的短文,掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。所填单词在横线上必须完整写出。

Jim is one of Mr Brown’s old f 1. . Mr Brown asked Jim for dinner and he agreed. They were both very

h 2. because they hadn’t s 3. each other for years. Mrs Brown bought some meat and vegetables from the shop. They were talking in the s 4. room while Mrs Brown was c 5. in the kitchen.

Suddenly she called Mr Brown into the kitchen and said something was wrong with the pot(锅) and asked him to buy one. He said sorry to Jim and l 6.. He wanted to borrow one from his neighbor, but they were all

o 7. . He had to go to the shop to buy a new one.

On his way to the shop, he saw a man selling pots by the road. He stopped to ask, ‘Are the pots of high quality(质量)?’ ‘Sure, sir,’ the man said, ‘I can show it to you.’ The man dropped a pot to the ground. Bad l 8.! It was broken into pieces. The man was very c 9. and said, ‘I have never s 10. such a pot of low quality like it! I’d rather break it into pieces than sell it to you.

短文填空 根据短文内容及首字母提示,补全空格内单词(10分)

It was Sunday morning. A butcher(屠夫) heard the doorbell and thought it must be a customer. But he was s 1.  to see that a dog was coming into his shop. The dog had $10 and a note in i 2.  mouth. The butcher took the note and read it. It said,“10 pork chops(排骨), please.”So the butcher took the money and p  3.  a bag of chops in the dog’s mouth.

Then he q  4.  closed the shop because he decided to follow the dog. He found that the dog walked across the road and went to a bus stop. When a bus a  5.  , the dog checked the number and then got on the bus. After a moment, the dog s 6.  up on his back paws to push the “stop” button(按钮). The bus stopped and the dog got o 7.  . Then the butcher followed it to get off the bus.

The dog ran to a house and dropped the bag in front of the front door. It then began to beat its head against the front door. After a while, a big man opened the door and began s  8.  at the dog. The butcher ran up and said to the man angrily, “What are you doing? Your dog is a genius(天才).”The o  9.  of the dog said loudly, “Genius? No way! I always tell him to take the keys when he goes to the stores.  But he never l  10.to me!”