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万圣节要到了 南瓜灯摆出来。。。。。。。
南瓜灯的故事。。。。。居然搜到的是填空题。。。。貌似是个西班牙学英语的网站上的。。。。那大家填着玩
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Stingy Jack
Stingy Jack [0] ________ a miserable, old drunk [1] _____ loved playing tricks on anyone and everyone.
One dark, Halloween night, Jack [2] _____ into the Devil himself in a local public house. Jack tricked the Devil by offering his soul in [3] _____ for one last drink. The Devil quickly turned himself into a sixpence to pay the bartender, but Jack immediately snatched the coin and deposited it [4] ______ his pocket, next to a silver cross that he was carrying. Thus, the Devil could not change himself [5] _____ and Jack refused to allow the Devil to go free [6] _____ the Devil had promised not to claim Jack's soul for ten years.
The Devil agreed, and ten years later Jack again came [7] _____ the Devil while out walking on a country road. The Devil tried to collect [8] _____ he was due, but Jack thinking quickly, said, "I'll go, but before I do, will you [9] _____ me an apple from that tree?"
The Devil, thinking he had [10]_____ to lose, jumped up into the tree to retrieve an apple. As soon as he did, Jack [11] _____ crosses all around the trunk of the tree, thus trapping the Devil [12] _____ again. This time, Jack made the Devil promise that he would not take his soul [13] _____ he finally died. Seeing no way around his predicament, the Devil grudgingly agreed.
When Stingy Jack eventually [14] _____ away several years later, he went to the Gates of Heaven, but was refused entrance [15] _____ of his life of drinking and because he had been so tight-fisted and deceitful. [16] _____, Jack then went down to Hell to see the Devil and find out [17] _____ it were possible to gain entrance into the depths of Hell, but the Devil [18] _____ the promise that had been made to Jack years earlier, and would not let him enter.
"But where can I go?" asked Jack.
"Back to where you came from!" replied the Devil.
The way back was windy and very dark. Stingy Jack pleaded with the Devil to at [19] _____ provide him with a light to help find his way. The Devil, as a final gesture, tossed Jack an ember straight from the fires of Hell. Jack placed the ember in a hollowed-out turnip...one of Jack's favourite foods which he always carried [20] _____ with him whenever he could steal one. From that day forward, Stingy Jack has been doomed to roam the earth without a resting place and with only his lit turnip to light the way in the darkness. |