Do you know the meaning of “loumajiao(露马脚)” in Chinese?
In the past，women with small 1. were believed to be more beautiful. So for a long time，young girls would 2. (ask)to painfully bind(捆绑)their feet to prevent them from getting bigger. But the young Ma，wife of Zhu Yuanzhang，the 3. (one)emperor of the Ming Dynasty liked to practice martial arts(武术). She refused to bind her feet，so her feet grew 4. (large)than other women’s feet.
After she became empress，Ma 5. (hide)her feet by wearing long gowns(长袍). One day，6. she walked on a busy street，a strong wind blew her gown up. It happened so suddenly that she was not able to hide her feet in time. Many people saw her feet and spread the words “loumajiao” quickly across the country.
“Loumajiao” may also have actually come 7. a kind of ancient celebration. The fancied(虚构的)character “qilin(麒麟)” is 8. (sure)a magic animal that stands for good luck. In ancient times，people would paint a “qilin skin” on a large piece of cloth and put 9. on a horse so that the horse would look like a “qilin”. 10. ，the horse’s feet were hard to cover up and could easily be seen. Gradually，“loumajiao” came to mean “uncovering a secret”. In English，the idiom “let the cat out of the bag” has the same meaning.

1. feet 2. be asked 3. first 4. larger 5. hid 6. when 7. from 8. surely 9. it 10. However

1. 由下文“bind their feet”可知此处指“脚”，填feet。
2. 女孩被要求裹脚，用被动语态“be asked”，would后接动词原形，填be asked。
3. 表示“第一任皇帝”，用序数词first，填first。
4. 由than可知用比较级，large的比较级是larger，填larger。
5. 文章为过去时，hide的过去式是hid，填hid。
6. 表示“当……时”，用连词when，填when。
7. “come from”为固定搭配，意为“来自”，填from。
8. 修饰be动词用副词，sure的副词是surely，填surely。
9. 指代上文“a large piece of cloth”，用it，填it。
10. 表转折“然而”，首字母大写，填However。