三、选词填空。
从方框中选择适当的单词，并用其正确形式填空，使短文完整、通顺（每词限用一次）。
afraid before end hear laugh mountain say sit try with
Once upon a time, there were two large mountains—Mount Taihang and Mount Wangwu. They 1 in front of Yu Gong's house. The Yu's families had to walk a long way to go out, so Yu wanted to remove the mountains.
One day, Yu called the whole family to discuss（讨论）removing the 2. His wife shook her head and said, "Where are we going to put the earth and sand?" The others said, "We can put them into the sea." The next day, Yu began digging（挖）the mountains 3 his families. An old man called Zhi Sou saw them and 4, "Mr. Yu, you're so old and weak. You won't remove them 5 you die!" Yu smiled and said, "If I die, there will be my sons and grandsons and grandsons will have sons. There will be no 6, but the mountains will not grow." Zhi Sou 7 nothing and left.
At last, the God 8 the news. He helped Yu Gong to move the mountains away. This story tells us that we should keep 9 in our life. As for our study, if we are not 10 of any difficulties, we will succeed.
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1. sat
2. mountains
3. with
4. laughed
5. before
6. end
7. said
8. heard
9. trying
10. afraid

我们结合语境、时态和固定搭配逐一分析每个空：
1. 句意为“它们坐落在愚公的家门前”，故事发生在过去，动词sit要变为一般过去式sat。
2. 前文提到了两座大山，这里指愚公全家讨论移走这些山，可数名词mountain要变为复数形式mountains。
3. 句意为“第二天，愚公和他的家人开始挖山”，介词with表示“和……一起”，符合语境。
4. 句意为“一个叫智叟的老人看到他们然后笑了”，故事是过去发生的，动词laugh变为一般过去式laughed。
5. 句意为“在你死之前你都不可能移走它们！”，连词before表示“在……之前”，符合语义。
6. 句意为“永远没有尽头，但是山不会再长高了”，no end表示“没有尽头”，名词end符合语境。
7. 句意为“智叟什么都没说就离开了”，时态为一般过去时，动词say变为过去式said。
8. 句意为“最后，天帝听到了这个消息”，时态为一般过去时，动词hear变为过去式heard。
9. 句意为“这个故事告诉我们在生活中应该一直努力”，固定搭配keep doing sth. 表示“持续做某事”，动词try变为动名词形式trying。
10. 句意为“至于我们的学习，如果我们不害怕任何困难，我们就会成功”，固定搭配be afraid of表示“害怕……”，所以填afraid。