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Answer the questions
1.What happened to the ascot cup ?
2.Who do you think stole it when you see the headings?
Scan the passage .
What does the passage mainly
want to tell us?
How the Ascot cup was stolen.
B. What Mark Twain did in England.
How clever and humorous Mark
Twain was.
How people in England welcomed
Mark Twain’s arrival
C
Then read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks.
Warm tips （温馨小提示）：
Fill in the blanks according to the context .
Pay attention to the parts of speech of the
words .
pay attention to the forms of the words .
A
Few other nations are so much interested in horse-racing as England. The famous race Ascot is held every year and followed by sports fans all over the world.The queen __1__ attends it and presents the winner with a gold cup. Getting this gold cup is the __2__ of every horse racer. All newspapers, great and small, are __3__ of detailed report of the race.
However, once it happened that the gold cup was stolen a few days before the race. The police __4__ the whole country for it but failed to find it.
Just at that time, Mark Twain , a famous writer arrived in England. He was ___5__ to a dinner party to welcome his arrival. After the dinner , the writer started his __6__ with the following words:
“Ladies and gentlemen , I __7__ you for the great honor（敬意） you have given me. But I very much doubt（怀疑）whether all the people in your country __8_ you in your warm welcome. When I arrived in Dover yesterday, the first thing I saw was a newspaper report , and on it, to my surprise, I read two headings（标题）printed in big red letters.
MARK TWAIN ARRIVE !
ASCOT CUP STOLEN !
These two headings stood so __9__ that it seemed some people in this country were __10__ that my arrival had something to do with the disappearance of the gold cup.” This humorous speech of the famous writer was met with laughters.
A
Few other nations are so much interested in horse-racing as England. The famous race Ascot is held every year and followed by sports fans all over the world.The queen a__1__ attends it and presents the winner with a gold cup. Getting this gold cup is the d__2__ of every horse racer. All newspapers, great and small, are f__3__ of detailed report of the race.
However, once it happened that the gold cup was stolen a few days before the race. The police s__4__ the whole country for it but failed to find it.