新概念英语第三册课文填空训练30 Lesson 30 The death of a ghost

- 新概念英语第三册 Lesson 30 The ______(die) of a ghost Why did the two brothers keep the secret? For years, villagers _________ that Endley Farm was hunted. The farm was _______(own) by two brothers, Joe and Bob Cox. They employed=_______ a few farmhands, ___ no one was ______ to work there long. Every time a worker _______ ___his job, he told the _____story. Farm labourers said that they always _____ ___to find that work had been ______ overnight. Hay had been ____ and cowsheds had been ______. A farm worker, who _____ ___ all night claimed to have seen a figure _______(cut) corn in the moonlight. In time, it became an accepted_____ the Cox brothers employed a conscientious ghost that did most of their work for them.  No one suspected that there might be someone else on the farm _____ had never been seen. This was indeed the_____. A short time ago, villagers were __________(astonish) to learn that the ghost of Endley had died. Everyone went to the funeral, for the 'ghost' was none other than Eric Cox, a_____ brother who was ________to have died as a young man. After the funeral, Joe and Bob revealed a secret _______they had kept for over fifty years. Eric had been the _______ son of the family, very much older than his two brothers. He had been obliged to ______the army during the________ World War. As he _____army life, he decided to desert his regiment. When he _______that he would be sent abroad, he ________ to the farm and his father hid him ______ the end of the war. _________(fear) the authorities, Eric________ in hiding after the war as well. His father told everybody that Eric had been killed in _______. The only other people who knew the ______were Joe and Bob. They did not even tell their_______(wife). When their father died, they thought it their ______ to keep Eric in hiding. All these years, Eric had ______ as a recluse.