三、词汇运用
阅读下面的短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The word “mahu” means someone is careless. Here is a story about (1)
.
One day, a painter (2)
(paint) a tiger at home. Just as he finishes the tiger's head, a friend comes to his home. He asks the painter some questions about painting a horse. The painter then paints a horse's body onto the tiger's head.
The painter's (3)
(child) see the painting. The old son asks, “(4)
animal is it?” The painter (5)
(tell) him it is a tiger. When the young son asks (6)
same question, the painter says it is a horse.
Later, the young son sees a tiger. He thinks it's a horse and wants (7)
(ride) it, but the tiger eats him. Then, the old son goes (8)
(hunt) for a tiger, but he kills a (9)
(farmer) horse. He has to pay lots of money for it.
The painter feels (10)
(real) sad and angry.
解析：
1. 此处指代前文提到的"mahu"这个词，作介词about的宾语，用人称代词it。
2. 根据语境，此处描述画家当时正在家里画老虎，全文叙事用一般现在时，主语a painter是第三人称单数，用现在进行时结构is painting。
3. 根据后文提到的两个儿子，可知是多个孩子，child的复数形式是children，作主语符合后面谓语see的复数用法。
4. 此处询问“它是什么动物”，用特殊疑问词What，位于句首首字母大写。
5. 主语the painter是第三人称单数，句子为一般现在时，谓语动词tell变为第三人称单数形式tells。
6. 固定搭配the same表示“同样的”，形容词same前必须加定冠词the。
7. 固定用法want to do sth. 表示“想要做某事”，所以填动词不定式to ride。
8. 固定短语go hunting表示“去打猎”，"go+动名词"是表示进行某项户外活动的常用结构，填hunting。
9. 此处表示所属关系“农民的马”，用名词所有格farmer's修饰后面的名词horse。
10. 此处需要副词修饰形容词sad and angry，形容词real的副词形式是really。
