Ⅳ.短文改錯

Once, lately at night, an Englishman came out1.________

of his room into a passage of the hotel and ask2.________

the servant to bring her a glass of water. The servant 3.__________

did as he asked. The Englishman returned to his room, 4._________

and a few minutes later he came into the passage again 5._________

and once more asked the servant a glass of water. 6.________

Every a few minutes the Englishman would come out 7._________

of his room and repeated his request. After half an hour 8.__________

the astonishing servant decided to ask the man what 9.__________

he was doing with the water. “Nothing,” he answered10.__________

calmly. “It's simply that the room is on fire.”

1-5 ? ?lately→late ?, ? ? ? ?ask→asked ? , ? ?her→him ? , ? ? ? ? he∧asked→was ?, ? ? ? ? ??and→but ?

6-10 ?servant后加for ? , ??去掉a ? , ? ? ? repeated→repeat ? , ? ?astonishing→astonished ? , ? ?√?