题目内容：

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Once James Thornhill, a famous English painter, was asked 1. (paint) some pictures on the walls of the king’s palace in English. Then workers were sent for and  2. big platform was made.  3.the help of a worker, Thornhill started painting on the platform. They worked for a whole year 4.at last the pictures were ready.

Thornhill was happy when he looked at the pictures, for they were  5. (real) beautiful. He looked at them for a long time, and then took one step back and looked again. Now the pictures were even 6. (much) beautiful. He took another step, then another. Finally he was at the very edge of the platform, but he did not know it because he  7.(think) of his pictures.

The worker saw everything. “ 8. should I do?” he thought. “Thornhill is at the very edge of the platform. If I cry out, he will take another step, fall off the platform and surely be killed.” So the worker quickly took some paint and threw 9. at the picture. “What are you doing?” cried the painter, 10. (run) quickly forward to his pictures.