The Cowboy without a Horse

A cowboy rides into a town and stops at a café for a drink. ___1___ he finishes his drink, he finds his horse is stolen(偷窃). He ___2___ back into the café, holds his gun up into the air and ＂fires a shot (开枪) ___3___ even looking. ”Which one of you stole __4____ horse?” he shouts loudly.

___5___ answers. “Alright, I’m going to have ___6___ beer, and if my horse isn’t back outside by the time I finish, I’m going to do __7____ I did in Texas! And I don’t like to have to do it.”

Some of the people in the town are very ___8___. After the cowboy has one more beer, he walks outside. His horse is back! He ___9___ his horse and starts to ride off.

The waiter goes __10____ the café in a hurry and asks, “Say, before you go, what happened in Texas?”

The cowboy turns back and says,” I had to walk home.”

Cloze test

　　Early one morning, an old woman was carrying a big bag or cabbages on her shoulder to the market. She hoped to 1 them to the people in town.

　　The mountain road was 2 and the old woman was walking carefully, because she didn't want to have 3 and lose her cabbages.

　　Suddenly she 4 a loud bell, and a bicycle came from behind and passed by her and went very fast 5 the hill. The old woman had to make way for him so 6 that the bag of the cabbages nearly fell into the valley（山谷）.

　　She looked, and saw that a young boy was on the bicycle. He was 7 on without even looking around to see 8 the old woman was all right.

　　The old woman began to shout, “Come back, young man! You dropped something!”

　　When he heard this, the boy stopped the bicycle so suddenly that he nearly 9 . Then he turned and began to 10 the bicycle back. “What is it?” he asked. “What did I drop?”

　　“Little boy,” the old woman answered, “you dropped your manners（礼貌）.”