On a cold and 1. winter morning, Mr Black 2. in the street. He 3. a ball in the tree. A little boy stood 4. the tree. Mr Black 5. to help him. So he threw his 6. at the ball. The boy 7. his ball and 8. back home. Mr Black 9. happy 10. his umbrella was in the tree. Who can help Mr Black get his umbrella?

十三、完形填空。(6分)
Raining cats and dogs
“It's raining cats and dogs!” Grandma shouted.
Little Bob ran to the window. He wanted to see the _1_ falling from the sky. He looked out of the window but it was strange that there were no cats or dogs. He only saw small pools of water on the ground.
“Mum, it's really coming down out there!” Uncle Sam agreed _2_ he looked out of the window too. Bob scratched(抓,搔) his head. What was coming down? First they talked about cats and dogs that couldn't be seen. Now someone said “it”. What was going on with these people?
“Wow!” Aunt Susie shouted as she looked out of the window. “It's raining really hard.”

Bob _3_ his aunt. “It is raining hard,” he agreed, “but _4_ are the cats and dogs?”
Grandma laughed. “Bob, that just _5_ it's raining really hard.”
“So why didn't you just say that?” Bob _6_. It was irritating(恼人的) when people were not speaking English at all.
“We did. You just didn't understand these sayings,” Bob's cousin said with a big smile.
“Well, now I do,” Bob said.
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( )1. There are only three ways to know the weather.
( )2. The lower the clouds are, the better the weather will be.
( )3. If you see the thick and fluffy clouds get bigger early in the day, you know it will rain.
( )4. A golden ring around the sun warns us that a storm is on the way.
( )5. If the sun is in the west and the rainbow is in the east, it will rain.