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阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中单词的正确形式填空。
One day, someone breaks into a rich man's house at night. The rich man thinks that the thief is one of his servants. 1. he talks to the town's officer. Then the officer visits his house and 2. (call) all of his servants over and asks, "Did anyone take anything away 3. the house?" Nobody answers。

The officer says nothing. He leaves and soon comes back with four sticks in 4. (hand). He gives each of the servants a stick and says, "5. (go) home and come back tomorrow. By the way, the stick of the real thief is two inches longer than 6. others."
The next day, all of the servants come to the same place. The officer asks them to show 7. (they) sticks.
After 8. (look) at each stick carefully, the officer stops in front of the last servant and says, "You 9. (be) the thief."
Later, the rich man asks, "How do you 10. (find) it out, sir?"
"I give them all sticks of the same length. But the real thief is really afraid his stick will be longer, so he cuts two inches off," the officer says.
How clever the officer is!
文章选自21世纪英语网

1. So 句意:富人认为小偷是他的仆人之一，所以他告诉了镇上的警官。根据上下文内容理解可知，上下文是因果关系，故此处答案应该填连词So。
2. calls 此空格处的主语是the officer，故此处答案应该填动词第三人称单数形式calls。
3. from 句意:有人从房子里拿走了东西吗?根据句意理解可知，此处用固定短语take sth. away from sp.，意思为“从某地拿走某物”。
4. hands hand是可数名词，前面无限定词修饰，故填hands。
5. Go 此处为祈使句，以动词原形开头，故填Go。
6. the 根据前文理解可知，警官给每个仆人一根枝条并告诉他们真正的小偷的枝条比别人的要长两英寸，所以此处应该填定冠词the。
7. their 根据前面的宾格them可知，此处答案应该填形容词性物主代词their，用来修饰后面的名词sticks。
8. looking 此处空格前的after是介词，其后接动词需要用动名词形式，结合所给词汇提示，此处答案应该填动名词looking。
9. are 此句的主语是You，其后接be动词要用are。
10. find 此句是特殊疑问句，句中助动词do之后需要用动词原形，故填find。