新概念英语第三册课文填空训练14-Lesson14 A noble gangster

新概念英语第三册Lesson14 A noble gangster How did Haywood make in times of peace? There was a time ______ the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to ____ large sums of ______ to gangsters in return for '___________.' If the money was not_______promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by ________(destroy) his shop. Obtaining 'protection money' is not a _______ crime. As long ago as the fourteenth ________, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable __________(discover) that people would ______pay large sums of money than have their life work ________(destroy) by gangsters. Six hundred years ago, Sir Johan Hawkwood_________in Italy ______ a band of soldiers and settled near Florence. He soon made a name for himself and came to be _________(know)to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto. __________the Italian city-states were at war with each other, Hawkwood ______ ____ hire his soldiers to princes who were _______ ___ pay the high ______ he demanded. In times of ______, when business was ____, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and, after ________(burn)down a few farms, would offer to go away ___ protection money ___________(pay) to them. Hawkwood made large sums of money ___ ____ ____. In _____of this, the Italians regarded him _____ a sort of _______. When he died at the ____ of eighty, the Florentines gave him a state funeral and had a picture painted ____ was dedicated to the ________of 'the most valiant soldier and most notable _______(lead), Signor Giovanni Haukodue.' 约翰·霍克伍德爵士（英语：Sir John Hawkwood，约1323年－1394年）是一名14世纪活跃于意大利的英国籍雇佣军首领。法国历史学家让·傅华萨（Jean Froissart）将其称作“哈库德”（Haccoude），而与此同时意大利人将他称为“乔凡尼·阿库托”（Giovanni Acuto）。霍克伍德起初服务于罗马教宗，但又在后来的30年中先后服务于意大利国内的多个派别。 Reading Skills: Read, Stop, Think! – A Strategy for Active Reading Cause and Effect因果关系 Main Idea主旨大意 Details细节锁定 Context Clues语境线索 Infer推理判断 Fact& Opinion 事实与观点 1. Why do people _____________? → To ______________.