Question

首字母填空。根据短文大意和首字母提示填空

A man tried to catch monkeys to sell them to zoos. The monkeys, however, were very c 1. and every kind of trap(计谋) that he set failed.

A young boy watched the man’s efforts and then took a pot with a narrow(狭窄的) neck. He placed a few peanuts around the pot and put lots of peanuts i 2. it. He then tied the pot to a tree and he told the man, “We should have a m 3. in a few hours.”

Some monkeys soon discovered the peanuts and the pot. One put his hand into the pot e 4. and got a handful of peanuts, but he couldn’t p 5. his hand with peanuts out of the narrow opening of the pot. The monkey was a 6. and began to cry. Some of the other monkeys tried unsuccessfully to pull the pot off his hand.

The boy and the man heard the noise. As the boy came near to the monkeys with a bag, the monkeys all ran away e 7. the one with its hand in the pot. The boy packed the monkey and the pot into the bag. The man was s 8. and asked the boy the secret of his monkey trap. “Why was it so easy for the monkey to get his hand in but so h 9. to get it out?”

The boy laughed and said, “The monkey could get his hand back out if he let go of the peanuts in the pot, but he just wasn’t w 10. to let go. They never are.

 

Answer 1

1.clever

2.in/inside

3.monkey

4.easily

5.pull

6.angry

7.except

8.surprised

9.hard

10.willing

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文讲述的是一个人想抓猴子，但是屡屡失败。一个孩子想了一个主意，他在一个口很狭窄的罐子里放了一些花生，来吸引猴子。猴子因为不愿放弃已经抓到手的花生，所以手不能从罐子里拿出来，最后被抓住了。

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2.……里面，在这里表示和前面的around 相对，即在罐子的外面和里面都放了一些花生。这个空还可以用inside，也是一个意思。

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考点：阅读填空。