Ⅳ. 短文填空(每小题1分,共10分)
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或用括号内所给单词的正确形式填空。
It was Friday afternoon. Mrs. White came to the kitchen and saw her daughter 26.
making
(make) dumplings for dinner. She said to her, "Janet, the dumpling wrappers(皮) you make are too thin. You need 27.
to add
(add) more dough (面团)." However, Janet wanted to make the dumpling wrappers in her own way. She liked the wrappers to be thin. She 28.
filled
(fill) the wrappers with some meat and pressed the two sides together.
Janet made twelve dumplings. She could even see the meat 29.
through
the wrappers. Mrs. White told Janet that the wrappers were so thin that they would break, 30.
but
Janet didn't believe her. She thought it would be OK. She began to cook them. First, she heated the oil in the pot. Then, put some water in it. 31.
Finally
(final), she put the dumplings in it.
The dumplings looked very delicious! Janet was happy at first, but 32.
slowly
(slow), the dumplings started to break. And the meat came out of the dumplings. The dumpling wrappers also broke into 33.
pieces
(piece). "Oh no!" Janet thought. "It is 34.
worse
(bad) than I thought. I won't enjoy dumplings. I will have to eat the sandwich." She realized the advice her mother gave her was right. As you can see, sometimes, it's important for us to listen 35.
to
others.