Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Carrying Firewood to Put Out a Fire
In 273 BC, the Qin army launched a more serious attack upon the State of Wei, which was too weak to defend itself. The king of the State of Wei gathered his officials, and asked them with a 【小题1】 (worry) look if anyone could propose a way to defeat the Qin army.
After years of difficulties 【小题2】 (cause) by the wars, the officials trembled when fighting was mentioned, and no one dared to speak of resistance.
At the critical moment 【小题3】 a large enemy force was approaching the border, most of the officials persuaded the king to beg for peace 【小题4】 the cost of giving away to the State of Qin, a large area of land.
However, Su Dai, a counselor, didn’t agree. He hurried up to the king and said, “Once there was a man 【小题5】 house was on fire. People told him to put out the fire with water, but he would not listen. Instead, he carried firewood to put out the fire, only 【小题6】 (make) the fire fiercer. Isn’t it similar to carrying firewood to put out a fire 【小题7】 you agree to trade the land of the State of Wei for peace?”
【小题8】 Su Dai’s argument was very convincing, the king accepted the suggestion of those officials. Finally, the State of Wei was destroyed by the State of Qin. This story appears in the Historical Records written by Sima Qian. The phrase “carrying firewood to put out a fire” 【小题9】 (use) to mean adopting a wrong method to save a situation and ending up by making it 【小题10】 (bad).