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have an idea     bad     think of     punish     foot

On Saturday morning, every boy in town is happy, except Tom Sawyer. He has to paint the fence because he 【小题1】 for the mistakes he made yesterday. The fence is at least nine 【小题2】 high and runs nearly half the block long. After only a few strokes, he sits down and begins to 【小题3】 all the fun he has planned for the day. He knows that the painting will take up all afternoon. Even 【小题4】 other boys will come by soon and see him do his chores. Just then, Ben Rogers comes along the road with an apple in his hand. Tom 【小题5】 He picks up his brush and goes back to work.

interest     in silence     he     discover     slowly

“Got to work, hey?” says Ben. “Work? What work are you talking about? It’s not every day a boy gets to paint a whole fence by 【小题6】.” Then Tom goes on painting. Ben watches Tom 【小题7】. He becomes more and more 【小题8】. After a while, he says, “Say, Tom, let me try.”

“No, I’m sorry. Aunt Polly says there isn’t one boy in a thousand that’s fit to paint the fence.” “Come on, Tom. Let me just try, please… I’ll give you my apple!

Tom considers a moment longer. Then very 【小题9】 he hands the brush over to Ben. Sitting under a shady tree, Tom eats the apple and watches Ben paint the fence in the hot sun. He thinks he 【小题10】 something wonderful since then: To make a boy want something, all you have to do is to make that something hard to get!