Ⅴ.短文填空。
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式填空。
       Once upon a time, there lived 1. _ old horse and a little horse in the village. 2. _ the morning of Monday, the old horse asked the little horse to take a bag of 3. _ (potato) to the farm. Soon, the little horse found a river in front of him and 4. _ (stop). He looked around and 5. _ (notice) a cow. “Aunt Cow, can I cross the river?” he asked. “It isn't deep. You can make it,” answered Aunt Cow. When the little horse began 6. _ (cross) the river, a chicken saw him and shouted, “Little horse, don't cross the river! It's the most 7. _ (danger) river that I've ever seen!” The little horse was 8. _ (scare) and he went back home. “9. _ do you come back home with the bag?” the old horse asked. “Because there was a river in front of me. Aunt Cow said it was not deep, 10. _ the chicken said it was very deep. I don't know what to do.” “My child, have you ever 11. _ (try) by yourself?” “No, I haven't,” answered the little horse. The old horse said, “You must make it by 12. _ (you). Then you 13. _ (know) the answer.” After 14. _ (hear) these words, the little horse ran back to the river and crossed the river 15. _ (quick).

1. an 2. On 3. potatoes 4. stopped
5. noticed 6. to cross 7. dangerous
8. scared 9. Why 10. but 11. tried
12. yourself 13. will know 14. hearing
15. quickly

※趣味猜谜
What gets larger, the more you take away?

A hole.