第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1．5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的
词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16-25的相应位置上。
This happened in a third-grade classroom. Jim sat 16 his desk and all of a sudden, there was a puddle(一滩水) between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet. He felt his heart was going to stop. He knew 17 would happen when his classmates found out. He looked up and there came the teacher with 18 look in her eyes that said he 19 (discover).
As the teacher was walking towards 20 绊倒) and, 21 (strange), dumped the whole bowl of water in Jim’s lap. He pretended to be angry, but all the while he was saying deep in his heart, “Thank you!” , a classmate named Susie was carrying a goldfish bowl full of water to her desk. Suddenly, Susie tripped(
Jim became the object of sympathy instead of ridicule(嘲笑). The teacher brought him gym shorts to put on. All the others crawled(爬) on their hands and knees, 22 转移) to Susie. She tried to help, 24 they told her to leave the room 25 school was over, Jim walked over to Susie and whispered, “You did that on purpose, didn’t you?” (clean) up around his desk. But 23 life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred(
Susie whispered back, “I wet my trousers once, too!”
