新概念英语第三册课文填空训练16-Lesson16 Mary had a little lamb

新概念英语第三册Lesson16 Mary had a little lamb Was Dimitri right to apologize to his neighbour? Why not? Mary and her husband Dimitri _______in the tiny village of Perachora in________(south) Greece. One of Mary's prize possessions was a little white lamb ______ her husband had ______(give) her. She ______(keep) it tied to a tree in a field ______the day and went to fetch it every evening. One evening, ________, the lamb was ________(miss). The rope had _____ _____(cut), so it was ________(obviously) that the lamb had _____ _____(steal). When Dimitri came in from the fields, his wife told him what_____ ________(happen). Dimitri at once=_________ _____ _____to find the thief. He _______(know) it would not prove ________ in ______ a small village. After _______(tell) several of his _________(friend) about the theft, Dimitri ______ ____that his neighbour, Aleko, had __________(sudden) acquired a new lamb. Dimitri ________(immediate) went to Aleko's house and _______(angry) accused him of ________the lamb. He told him he had better _______ it or he would _____ the police. Aleko denied ________(take) it and _______(lead) Dimitri into his backyard. It was true that he had just ________(buy) a lamb, he explained, ____ his lamb was black. Ashamed of having acted so rashly, Dimitri __________(apologize) to Aleko for having accused him. While they _____ _______(talk) it began to rain and Dimitri stayed in Aleko's house ______the rain _________(stop). When he went ________ half an hour later, he was ________(astonish) to find the little black lamb was almost _______. Its wool, ______ had been dyed black, had been ______(wash) clean by the rain! "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is a song ________(write) by Paul and Linda McCartney and released as a non-album single by the British–American rock band Wings in March 1972. It is ______(base) on the traditional nursery rhyme o