根据对话情景，用括号内所给单词的适当形式或在无提示词的情况下将你认为适当的单词填入对话中，使对话通顺，正确。

Betty: Hey, boys!

Tony：Hi, Betty. Hi, Lingling. Where are you going?

Betty: We’re going to the park to skate. There’s thick ice on the lake. Are you1. ____________ (come）with us?

Tony: Are you joking? It’s really cold today.

Daming: And it’s2.??????????? (cloud) too, so it might snow.

Lingling: What’s the temperature?

Tony: It’s between minus eight3. ___________ minus two degrees! Winter is4. _____________ (cold) here than in England.

Daming: Is it5. ______________ ( snow) in England in December?

Tony: Not usually, although this year it6. _____________ (snow) quite a lot. Most Decembers are wet and7. ______________ ( rain).

Daming: What’s the weather like in America in winter, Betty?

Betty: We have cold winters and8. _____________ summers. It’s snowy in New York in winter.

Tony: Sounds great! I like9. ______________ (sun) weather, and I like snow as well. But I don’t like showers or windy weather.

Betty: Me neither. Rainy weather is terrible! I wish I10. ____________ (be) in Australia now. It’s probably sunny and hot there.

One very cold morning, my, father and I were working on the farm. I asked him how long I must stay in the ____31____.
“About an hour.”he answered.
“I wish I could go hone now—my __32__ aches.”
“I am sorry, but can’t you stay till lunch time?”said my father.
“But my headache is getting __33__.”
“Well,” said he,“you may go home. I don’t want you to work if you are sick. Go straight home __34__ tell your mother to give you some rhubarb(大黄，一种苦药).It will __35__ you a lot.”
I went back home. However, I told my mother that my head was better, hoping not to __36__ the terrible medicine. But it was too __37__.She understood my __38__ as well as my father. So she prepared the rhubarb.
I had to swallow(吞) all of the rhubarb. Dear me! How bitter it was! I would rather __39__ all day in the field. But it cured(治愈) my laziness, and I learned that it is important to be __40__.
Friends, keep it, though there is another and a better reason.
【小题1】A. field                 B. hospital               C. factory
【小题2】A. tooth                B. head                  C. stomach
【小题3】A. better                B. worse                 C. less
【小题4】 A. but                 B. or                     C. and
【小题5】A. hurt                 B. worry                 C. help
【小题6】A. take                 B. buy                   C. make
【小题7】 A. early                B. late                    C. easy
【小题8】A. joke                 B. duty                   C. problem
【小题9】A. work                B. play                    C. study
【小题10】 A. kind                 B. honest                  C, helpful

— How much of his speech do you think you have understood?
—________. I wish I had worked harder.

每空限填空一词，有些词需要做相应的变化。其中有两个多余的选项。