阅读理解填词。It was the beginning of the summer holidays and Marie and her brother Chris were going to stay with their grandmother for two weeks . They were on the train. They both loved t【小题1】 by train, you could sit and read, or just sit and look at the countryside . Next to Marie sat a woman of about fifty . She told them she had been v【小题2】 her daughter who lived on a farm, but they had gone into the nearest town, Boston, nearly every day.
“I don’t like the countryside much,” she told them. “It’s too quiet for me. Cities are much more i【小题3】, don’t you think?” Chris and Marie looked at e【小题4】 other. “I don’t know.” Chris answered. “You see, we live in a city, but we like to get a【小题5】 from it whenever we can. In fact we’re going to s【小题6】 two weeks with our grandmother now. She lives out in the country.”
The woman was s【小题7】 . “But I thought all young people liked cities,” she said. “There’s so much to do. What will you find to do in the country? Won’t you be bored?”
“Bored?” Oh no, we n【小题8】 get bored. We go for long walks with Granny’s two dogs. And we play baseball with the neighbors . And Granny always has lots of b【小题9】 for us to read, we always have a great time.”
“Oh, I see,” the woman said.
Before long Marie and her brother began to feel very tired. So first Chris, then Marie fell asleep.
Chris w【小题10】 up a few times, when his head fell against the window, but his eyes always closed again a few seconds later.
