The captain stood on the high wall of the city of Troy. “The ________ have gone and we’ve won,” he said. “They’ve tried to ________ our city for ten years. Now they’ve given up and sailed away!”
“But look ________ there,” a soldier said. “They’ve left a huge wooden horse.”
“Ah, yes,” the captain said, “it’s ________ big. The Greeks didn’t want to take it ________ them. Get some help and pull it into the city.”
That night, in the main square of the city, ________ the Trojans celebrated. They sang and danced around the horse, and ________ about the stupid Greeks. “I haven’t laughed like this since my childhood,” the captain said. ________ the party they locked all the gates of the city and then all went to ________.
By midnight, the main square was ________ except for the huge horse. ________ a secret door opened ________ the wooden horse. The horse was full of Greek soldiers. They quietly climbed out of the horse ________. The soldiers opened the main gates. The Greek army entered the city.
For ________ years, the Greeks could not capture the city by fighting. In one night, ________, they succeeded in capturing it through a clever trick.
1. | A．soldiers | B．Greeks | C．captain | D．Trojans |
2. | A．capture | B．take | C．play | D．get |
3. 4. | A．too | B．very | C．a little | D．a few |
5. 6. 7. | A．make joke | B．laughing at | C．laughed | D．made jokes |
8. | A．Before | B．After | C．Since | D．While |
9. | A．asleep | B．sleepy | C．sleep | D．sleeping |
10. | A．empty | B．full | C．silent | D．noisy |
11. | A．Immediately | B．Exactly | C．Finally | D．Suddenly |
12. | A．in the side of | B．in the front of | C．on the side of | D．on the front of |
13. | A．one by one | B．one by another | C．each other | D．one another |
14. 15. | A．however | B．too | C．either | D．later |
