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 【小题1】___________ for the disabled(残疾) riders. Many more disabled people want to ride 【小题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 【小题3】___________. Right now, I’m just happy to be able to lead the horses around for the disabled riders.
I’m【小题4】___________ helping to organize a sale, which will be 【小题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 【小题6】___________ things available(获得的) than I thought, but I’m sure we’ll have enough【小题7】__________ 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 【小题8】__________ to organize than the walk. 【小题9】__________, for some reason, people offered too little money for the things, so we didn’t raise enough money.
I’m 【小题10】___________ you some pictures in the letter, as well as a speech I gave last week.

Answer 1

【小题1】ready
【小题2】horses
【小题3】enough
【小题4】also
【小题5】held
【小题6】fewer
【小题7】by
【小题8】less
【小题9】However
【小题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。
【小题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”。
【小题2】上文已经说明是“骑马”。用名词horses和ride构成动宾短语。
【小题3】enough修饰副词soon后置。
【小题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。
【小题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”。
【小题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。
【小题7】介词by表示“截止到；在……之前”。by next month意为“下个月之前”。
【小题8】less修饰不可数名词time意为“更少的时间”。
【小题9】副词however表示“然而”，和下文意义“没得到多少钱”贯通。
【小题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。