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阅读下面短文，并借助上下文和插图补充所缺信息，每个空只需填写一个形式正确、与短文内容意义相符的英语单词。请将答案写在答题卷相应题目的答题位置上。

Mr. King was a chicken farmer. He had hundreds 1 chickens and he 2 the eggs and the meat and got a lot of money from them. But he lived in a very 3 country and he found that his hens could hardly 4 eggs in summer. So he decided to put air- conditioning in his chicken-house, then the hens would lay well 5 year round and he would get 6 eggs and more money. The owner of the air-conditioning
company wanted to 7 Mr. King to buy some more for his own house, so he said,“Your wife would be much 8 to have a nicer house to live in.” But Mr. King was not 9 in that idea. “My wife 10 lay eggs!”he said.

小题1:of
小题2:sold
小题3:hot
小题4:lay
小题5:all
小题6:more
小题7:ask/persuade
小题8:happier
小题9:interested
小题10:can’t/doesn’t

小题1:此题考查固定短语hundreds of 表示成百上千的。
小题2:此题考查动词，出售的过去式是sold。
小题3:此题考查形容词，根据下文提示可知选择hot，表示炎热。
小题4:此题考查动词，表示孵蛋，故用lay。
小题5:此题考查固定短语all year round表示整年。
小题6:此题考查形容词，表示更多的，故用more。
小题7:此题考查固定结构ask sb to do sth表示让某人做某事。
小题8:此题考查形容词，根据语境可知需要比较级，故用happier。
小题9:此题考查固定结构be interested in sth表示对某事感兴趣。
小题10:此题考查情态动词，表示能力故用can’t。