$It was the ^1$$ (one) time that Moham went to a restaurant in his new neighbourhood. He looked up at the menu board, but he couldn't understand what all of these strange names ^2$$ (mean). He decided to ask a ^3$ (wait) for ice cream in a cup. She smiled brightly and wrote down his order.
$A moment ^4$$ (late), she came back with a tall paper cup. Inside it ^5$ (be) a long straw (吸管$) and some kind of drink. Moham ^6$ (surprise) took the cup and thanked her, thinking that he had used wrong words.
$He smiled at the waitress, pointed at one of the ^7$$ (cake), and said, "That one, please," which seemed to work ^8$ (good) than the earlier words.
Moham took the cake and his unexpected soda to a table and sat down to eat. Why was it that English had been so easy for him in his classes in Tunisia (突尼斯$), but he couldn't even get what he wanted to eat when ^9$ (communicate) in this new city?
$Just then, a girl sitting at the next table laughed with her friends and then said to Moham, "Hey, you'll get better at it if you've lived here for a while. The first time I tried to order a salad here, I ended up with a plate that ^10$ (fill) with pigs' feet."

1. first 2. meant 3. waitress 4. later 5. were 6. surprisingly 7. cakes 8. better 9. communicating 10. was filled

1. 考查序数词。"the first time" 表示“第一次”，用序数词 first。
2. 考查时态。主句 couldn't 是过去式，宾语从句用相应过去时态，mean 的过去式是 meant。
3. 考查名词。“服务员”用 waitress（由下文 she 可知是女性）。
4. 考查副词。“一会儿之后”用固定搭配 a moment later。
5. 考查主谓一致及时态。主语是 a long straw and some kind of drink，复数，时态为过去时，用 were。
6. 考查副词。修饰动词 took 用副词 surprisingly（“惊讶地”）。
7. 考查名词复数。one of 后接可数名词复数，cake 的复数是 cakes。
8. 考查比较级。than 提示用比较级，good 的比较级是 better。
9. 考查非谓语动词。when 后接现在分词 communicating，构成时间状语从句的省略。
10. 考查被动语态。“盘子被装满”，用被动语态 be filled with，时态为过去时，主语是 a plate，用 was filled。

$Long long ago, in a small, lonely village, there was a place known as the House of 1,000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog heard of this place and decided to pay a ^1^1$$. He ran all of his way with a happy heart. When he arrived, ^1^2$$, he jumped up the stairs to the doorway of the house. There was a hole in the door. He looked ^1^3$$ the hole with his ears lifted high and his tail shaking as fast as it could. To his great surprise, he found himself looking at 1,000 other happy little ^1^4$$ with their tails shaking just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1,000 great smiles just as warm and ^1^5$$ as him. As he left the house, he said to ^1^6$, "This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often."
$In this same village, another little dog, who was sad and in a ^1^7$$ mood all the day, decided to visit the house too. He slowly ^1^8$ up the stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the hole in the door. To his great surprise, he saw the 1,000 unfriendly dogs looking at him, so he growled (咆哮$) at them right away. Then he was terrified to see 1,000 little dogs growling ^1^9$$ at him. As he left, he thought to himself, "That is a ^2⁰$ place, and I will never come back and visit it."
All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kind of reflections do you see in the faces of the people you meet?

visit quickly through dogs friendly himself bad walked back terrible

1. 考查固定搭配“pay a visit”（参观），故填visit。
2. 此处无特殊逻辑，用副词“quickly”（快速地）修饰动词jumped，符合语境，填quickly。
3. “look through the hole”（透过洞看），through表示“穿过”，填through。
4. 由上文“a small, happy little dog”及“1,000 other”可知填dogs。
5. and连接并列形容词，与warm并列，“friendly”（友好的）符合语境，填friendly。
6. “say to oneself”（自言自语），主语是he，填himself。
7. 由“sad”可知是坏心情，“bad mood”（坏心情），填bad。
8. “walk up the stairs”（走上楼梯），全文为过去时，填walked。
9. “growl back”（回吼），符合语境，填back。
10. 由上文“unfriendly”“terrified”可知是可怕的地方，“terrible”（可怕的），填terrible。