Question

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）

	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(残疾) 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(获得的) 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(拍卖). 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：短文是一篇电子邮件。主要内容是作者向残疾人马术协会汇报自己的工作情况。

1.get…ready for…意为“为……准备好”，形容词作宾语补足语，句意为“为残疾人准备好马匹”。

2.上文已经说明是“骑马”。用名词horses和ride构成动宾短语。

3.enough修饰副词soon后置。

4.also位于助动词和行为动词之间，意为“也”，说明自己另外干的工作。

5.which代替名词sale，用动词hold的过去分词构成被动语态作sale的谓语，hold a sale 表示“举行拍卖会”。

6.通过下文的转折句意可知此处是比预想的得到的东西更少，用fewer表示“更少”，修饰名词things。

7.介词by表示“截止到；在……之前”。by next month意为“下个月之前”。

8.less修饰不可数名词time意为“更少的时间”。

9.副词however表示“然而”，和下文意义“没得到多少钱”贯通。

10.send sb. sth. 意为“寄给某人某物”，助动词am提示构成进行时态，用send的现在分词形式。