Question

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

A young husband 1.(lose) his life in a war. He left behind his wife, Mary and his son, Jimmy. Mary and Jimmy were very poor and their life was very hard. The wife tried her best to look after her son with the best 2.(educate).

Jimmy studied hard and became 3. engineer. He moved to a city and found a good job there. He used to write letters and sent 4. to his mother. He went back home and visited his mother every year. 5., year by year, Jimmy didn’t travel home to visit his mother with many different 6.(excuse).

When the mother died, Jimmy returned home 7.(sad). Jimmy saw a box in his mother’s bedroom. He opened the box and found 8. in it. There was lots of money and a piece of paper. It said, “My son. Here 9.(be) the money you sent to me. I don’t spend much money. I miss you a lot. Every time I hear a car passing by, I run out of the door. But it wasn’t my son, I saved the money for you. You can use it 10. you get sick.”

Answer 1