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　　Once, lately at night, an Englishman came out      1.______

　　of his room into a passage of the hotel and ask           2.______

　　the servant to bring her a glass of water. The servant 3.______

　　did as he asked. The Englishman returned his room,    4.______

　　and a few minutes later he came into the passage again      5.______

　　and once more asked the servant a glass of water.       6.______

　　Every a few minutes the Englishman would come out 7.______

　　of his room and repeated his request. After half an hour     8.______

　　the astonishing servant decided to ask the man what    9.______

　　he was doing with the water. "Nothing," answered he 10._____

　　calmly. "It's simply that the room is on fire.

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　　I gave my housekeeper an old pair trousers to wash   1.______

　　and went in the study to read. My housekeeper usually      2.______

　　looked through my pocket before wash my clothes,    3.______

　　but for some reasons she failed to do so this               4.______

　　time. As I was reading, I suddenly remember that       5.______

　　there was a five-pounds note in the back pocket of     6.______

　　the trousers I had told her to wash it. I dropped           7.______

　　my book and rushed into the bathroom, but it is too    8.______

　　late. My housekeeper says that my trousers had been 9.______

　　in the washing machine for fifteen minutes already.     10._____

　　參考答案：

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　　1. lately-late   2. ask-asked   3.her-him   4.he asked---he was asked   5. and-but

　　6. servant-servant for   7. 去掉a   8. repeated-repeat    9. astonishing-astonished   10. √

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　　1. pair-pair of     2. in-into   3. wash-washing    4. reasons-reason    5. remember-remembered

　　6. pounds-pound      7.去掉 it      8.is-was     9. says-said    10. √