Question

用方框中所給單詞的適當形式填空，使短文通順、正確、連貫（每個單詞限用一次）

	time  horse  by  also  enough  however  few  ready  send  hold

 

 

To: Christin foo@hotmail.com

Date: 23^rd March

Subject: The Riding for the Disabled Association

Hi Christine,

Sorry I haven’t emailed lately —I’ve been very busy since becoming a volunteer for the Riding for the Disabled Association.

Every Saturday, I help to get the horses 1.___________ for the disabled(殘疾) riders. Many more disabled people want to ride 2.___________ than you’d imagine. It’s a disadvantage that I don’t know how to ride —I’d love to got on long rides with the riders— but I’ll learn soon 3.___________. Right now, I’m just happy to be able to lead the horses around for the disabled riders.

I’m4.___________ helping to organize a sale, which will be 5.___________ next month. It’s a lot more work than helping the disabled. I need to collect second-hand things to sell at the sale. There are 6.___________ things available(獲得的) than I thought, but I’m sure we’ll have enough7.__________ next month.

I hope the sale raises more money than last month’s walk. It was rainy, so too few people took part in the event. Last week, we held an auction(拍賣). The auction took much less 8.__________ to organize than the walk. 9.__________, for some reason, people offered too little money for the things, so we didn’t raise enough money.

I’m 10.___________ you some pictures in the letter, as well as a speech I gave last week.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.ready

2.horses

3.enough

4.also

5.held

6.fewer

7.by

8.less

9.However

10.sending

【解析】

文章主旨大意：短文是一篇電子郵件。主要內容是作者向殘疾人馬術協會匯報自己的工作情況。

1.get…ready for…意為“為……準備好”，形容詞作賓語補足語，句意為“為殘疾人準備好馬匹”。

2.上文已經說明是“騎馬”。用名詞horses和ride構成動賓短語。

3.enough修飾副詞soon后置。

4.also位于助動詞和行為動詞之間，意為“也”，說明自己另外干的工作。

5.which代替名詞sale，用動詞hold的過去分詞構成被動語態作sale的謂語，hold a sale 表示“舉行拍賣會”。

6.通過下文的轉折句意可知此處是比預想的得到的東西更少，用fewer表示“更少”，修飾名詞things。

7.介詞by表示“截止到；在……之前”。by next month意為“下個月之前”。

8.less修飾不可數名詞time意為“更少的時間”。

9.副詞however表示“然而”，和下文意義“沒得到多少錢”貫通。

10.send sb. sth. 意為“寄給某人某物”，助動詞am提示構成進行時態，用send的現在分詞形式。