Question

Last October, while tending her garden in Mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small 1.(carrot) and was about to throw them away .But something made her look closer ,and she noticed a 2.(shine) object .Yes ,there beneath the leafy top of one tiny carrot was her long-lost wedding ring.

Pahlsson screamed 3. loudly that her daughter came running from the house .“she thought I had hurt 4.(I),” says Pahlsson.

Sixteen years 5.(early), Pahlsson had removed the diamond ring 6.(cook) a meal. When she wanted to put the ring back on later, it was gone. She suspected that one of her three daughters-then ten. eight, and six-had picked it up, but the girls said they hadn’t. Pahlsson and her husband 7.(search) the kitchen, checking every corner, but turned up nothing. “I gave up hope of finding my ring again," she says. She never replaced it.

Pahlsson and her husband now think the ring probably got 8.(sweep) into a pile of kitchen rubbish and was spread over the garden, 9. it remained until the carrot’s leafy top accidentally sprouted (生长) through it. For Pahlsson, its return was 10. wonder.

Answer

1.carrots

2.shiny / shining

3.so

4.myself

5.earlier

6.to cook

7.searched

8.swept

9.where

10.a

【解析】本文讲述了主人公Pahlsson在一个胡萝卜的茂密的叶子下面，找到了她遗失很久的结婚戒指。16年前Pahlsson在厨房做饭时取下戒指，之后戒指就找不到了。而16年后花园中胡萝卜的意外发芽使戒指通过绿叶又被找回。她的丈夫现在认为戒指可能和一堆厨房垃圾被扫到花园中，他们认为戒指的失而复得是个奇迹。

1.句意：Lena Pahlsson掏出一把小胡萝卜正要扔掉。a handful of意为“一把，几个”，故后加可数名词复数形式。故填carrots。

2.句意：她注意到一个闪亮的物体。由语法知识可知，形容词修饰名词物体。故填shiny/shining。

3.句意：Pahlsson大声的喊叫以至于她女儿从房子里跑出来。so…that…意为“如此……以至于……”。故填so。

4.句意：她认为我伤害了我自己。由语境可知，女儿听到母亲的叫声跑出门后，是以为母亲伤害了她自己。myself是反身代词，指“我自己”，故填myself。

5.由语境也可知，作者想要强调这个戒指是十六年前丢的，想要强调时间。数词+years earlier表示多年前，故填earlier。

6.句意：Pahlsson把钻石戒指摘掉去做饭。这里用不定式表目的，故填to cook。

7.句意：Pahlsson和她的丈夫在厨房寻找。由语境可知，这段是她回忆戒指丢失的场景，故谓语动词需要用过去时。故填searched。

8.句意：Pahlsson和她的丈夫现在认为戒指可能和一堆厨房垃圾被扫到花园中。由语境可知，戒指是被扫到花园中，故空白处填被动形式。故填swept。

9.句意：Pahlsson和她的丈夫现在认为戒指可能和一堆厨房垃圾被扫到花园中，在那里直到胡萝卜意外地发芽使戒指通过绿叶又被找到。前后两句很完整，由句意可知，后半句是对花园进行了进一步的解释说明。故后半句是定语从句，引导词是地点时，由where引导。故填where。

10.句意：它的回来（指戒指失而复得）是一件很奇妙的事。wonder在这句话中的词性是名词，可数名词单数前需要加冠词。故填a。