阅读短文，从方框中选出恰当的单词并用其适当形式填空，使短文通顺、意义完整。每空仅填一词，每词仅用一次。
方框内单词：Why eat remember call drink they villager away good slow
The Winter Solstice, or Dongzhi, falls on December 21st this year. In northern China, 1. dumplings is a must-do tradition on this day. There's a funny folk saying: "If you don't eat dumplings on this day, your ears might freeze and fall off!" But why dumplings? It is said that this custom is 2. Zhang Zhongjing, known as the "Sage of Chinese Medicine(医圣)".
In the later years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing retired from his post in Changsha and returned to his hometown. It was winter when Zhang arrived. He saw that many 3. were suffering from the cold and hunger. Many got frostbite(冻疮) on 4. ears because of the cold weather.
On the day of the Winter Solstice, Zhang asked his people to set up a medical tent and place a pot to prepare a soup 5. "Quhan Jiao'er Soup(祛寒娇耳汤)". He put mutton, red pepper and some medicinal materials that could drive 6. the cold into the pot and boiled them all together. After cooking for a while, he fished the mutton and medicine out of the pot, and then cut them into small pieces. He wrapped them in dough wrappers to make "Jiao'er" —a food shaped like human ears. Once the "Jiao'er" were cooked, Zhang gave each person two "Jiao'er" and a large bowl of warm soup. After people ate the "Jiao'er" and 7. the soup, they felt warmth spreading through their bodies. Their frozen ears gradually started to get 8. .
Later, people began making food similar to "Jiao'er" during winter. This food 9. developed into what we now call dumplings (Jiaozi). And that's the heartwarming story behind 10. northern Chinese eat dumplings on Dongzhi.

1. eating 2. to remember 3. villagers 4. their 5. called 6. away 7. drank
8. better 9. slowly 10. why

【分析】首先通读短文，理解文章围绕冬至吃饺子的由来展开。解题时需先分析每个空缺处的句子成分、所需词性，再从方框内剩余单词中选择，同时注意单词的形式变化（如名词复数、动词时态、非谓语、词性转换等），确保每个词仅用一次。
【解析】1. 此处作句子主语，需用动名词形式，方框内的动词eat变为动名词eating，符合“吃饺子是必须的传统”的语境；2. 结合语境“这个习俗是为了纪念张仲景”，用不定式表目的，故填to remember；3. many后需接可数名词复数，方框内的名词villager变为复数villagers；4. 修饰名词ears需用形容词性物主代词，方框内的代词they变为their；5. 此处用过去分词作后置定语，表被动（汤被叫做），动词call变为过去分词called；6. 固定搭配drive away意为“赶走”，符合“驱寒”的语境，故填away；7. 与前面的ate并列，需用动词过去式，drink的过去式为drank；8. get后接形容词比较级，表“变得更好”，good的比较级为better；9. 此处需副词修饰动词developed，形容词slow变为副词slowly；10. 此处为宾语从句的引导词，表原因，故填why。
【答案】1. eating 2. to remember 3. villagers 4. their 5. called 6. away 7. drank 8. better 9. slowly 10. why
【知识点】动词适当形式、代词用法、副词用法
【点评】本题以冬至文化为背景，考查词汇在语境中的灵活运用，需结合语法知识和上下文逻辑选择并变形词汇，是初中英语常见题型，能有效考查学生的语言综合运用能力。
【难度系数】0.6