题目内容：

请在空格上填上一个正确的词或用所给词的正确形式填空，每空1.5分。

Christmas was coming. Mr. Smith had no money1._____ (buy) any presents for his children. His wife was ill and he had spent a lot of money 2.____ her medicine. The harvest was bad and everyone in his family was going to be hungry the next spring. He was quite 3.____(worry) about it.

“We have only a cock,” said Mrs. Smith one day. “You’d better take it to the town. Sell it there and buy some cakes and 4._____(candy) for our children.”

“That is a good idea!” the man said and caught the cock the next morning and put5._____ into a box. It was difficult to walk on the road, because it 6.____(cover) with thick snow. Two hours later, he was very tired and wanted to have a rest. He put the box on the ground and sat down.

“The air in the box must be old,” the man said to 7.____(he). “I’d better let the cock walk outside for a while, 8.____ it’ll die.”

So he put the cock on the ground. Then, when he wanted to start off again, Mr. Smith tried to get the cock, but he found he couldn’t catch it 9.____ longer.

“How foolish you are!” Mr. Smith shouted 10._____(anger) at the cock. “You can herald(预示) the break of day at night but you can’t find the way to the town in the daytime!”