Boxing（拳击）is popular in many countries. Two fighters wear boxing gloves on their ___1___.

A bell rings. The boxers ___2___each other until one knocks out the other. Each part of the fight is three ___3___long. It is called a round.

Thai（泰国的）boxing is different. The boxing match ___4___music from drums and flutes（长笛）. Then the two fighters kneel（跪）and pray to God. Next they do a slow dance that copies the movements of Thai boxing. During this dance, each fighter tries to ___5___the other that he is the best.

Then the fight begins. In Thai boxing, the fighters ___6___kick with their feet and hit each other with their elbows and knees. Of course they hit with their hands, too. Most boxers can fight only five rounds because this kind of fighting is too ___7___.

Thai boxing began over 500 years ago. If a soldier ___8___his weapons（武器）in a battle, he needed to fight with just his body. The soldiers ___9___how to use all the parts of their body. In 1560, the Burmese（缅甸的）army captured（俘获）the King of Thailand in a war. He was a very good boxer. He ___10___the freedom from Burma by defeating all the best Burmese fighters. When he returned to Thailand, his people were very proud of him. Thai boxing became a popular sport.

请先通读上面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题后所给的四个选项中选择最佳的一项填空，使短文意思完整通顺。

  1. A. fingers                     B. feet                           C. hands                     D. arms

  2. A. help                         B. teach                         C. know                     D. hit

  3. A. hours                       B. minutes                     C. seconds                 D. days

  4. A. begins with               B. ends with                  C. plays with              D. gets on with

  5. A. get                           B. make                         C. show                     D. use

  6. A. must                        B. need                          C. dare                       D. can

  7. A. difficult                    B. interesting                  C. funny                     D. heavy

  8. A. got                          B. held                          C. lost                        D. used

  9. A. taught                      B. learned                      C. saw                       D. seemed

  10. A. beat                       B. hit                             C. found                     D. won

B

Young Piglet, so small that he is often overlooked by his friends, lives in the Hundred Acre Wood. When Piglet’s friends set out to harvest honey from the beehives（蜂窝）in the forest, the little pig is told that he’s too small to come along. Feeling inferior（差的）to his friends, Piglet leaves to work out his place in the world.

When the honey hunters return, they can’t find their friend. Only his notebooks of their past adventures（奇遇）are left. As they look through the books, Winnie the Pooh（小熊维尼）, Tigger, Eyore and Rabbit realize just how much their small friend means to them, and how much they’re taking him for granted.